Bank Controller
If you are a six to eight plus year banking (or public accounting) professional with a focus on banking or financial services, Christian Wyatt Group may have a great opportunity for you. As an executive search firm that focuses on the $0 to $20B banking vertical placing accounting, finance, audit, risk, credit, and compliance professionals at high performing banks nationwide. This client is growing and due to that growth is restructuring its accounting and finance department and parsing out iterant duties to various top-flight professionals both internally and externally. This role is for a Bank Controller, and they are looking to move quickly.
The gist of the Bank Controller role is largely operational in nature and will focus on all of the financial/operational accounting activities of the organization. This is a bank level role and you will be responsible for all operational accounting functions for the bank and perhaps one or two bank subsidiaries. This includes oversight of the general ledger (GL), reconciliations of all balance sheet accounts, oversight of financial (regulatory) reporting and GL controls, as well as the accounts payable department. You will be supervising a small team of professionals.
To be successful in this role, you must be a team builder, a great communicator, and be comfortable working with leadership not only within accounting and finance, but throughout the bank as well. The efficient, timely and accurate outputs of your department are critical as it will help senior leadership as they continue to ponder both organic and M&A growth for the bank and subsidiary lines of business. As the steward of this role, you will be looked on to develop a best-in-class department/team and must maintain current controls at all levels.
Banking experience is a must, as is a CPA accreditation, and strong GAAP knowledge. You are blessed with a strong boss that is a great leader and has vast institutional knowledge within the organization. The manager may have high expectations, but they are also not a micro-manager. You will be given the toolkit to be successful as well as given the autonomy to do so. This bank has a remarkable culture and is looking for the right Controller to join, assimilate, contribute, and weave themselves into the fabric of the organization.
Intrigued? This is a great opportunity. Please inquire today in confidence.