Controllers, Derivatives External Reporting Controller, Vice President, Jersey City Jersey City[...]

Controllers, Derivatives External Reporting Controller, Vice President, Jersey City location_on Jersey City, NJ, United States

Controllers Overview

The mission of Controllers is to ensure that the firm meets the financial control and reporting obligations of a global, regulated, and public financial institution. Controllers provides the critical analysis required while ensuring the internal and external financial information of the firm is accurate. Additionally, Controllers serves an important role in safeguarding the assets of the firm through the independent scrutiny of financial information. Controllers engages regularly with the firm’s regulators and auditors and through its strong culture of control and challenge helps to protect the firm from reputational and other risks.

Job Summary

As Derivatives Product Line Controller within Goldman Sachs, you will specialize in derivatives products and oversee the entire process of report production for external filings.Your responsibilities will encompass managing data from various sources to its final use for reporting while ensuring stringent controls and reviews are in place and properly executed.

The opportunity is within the Regulatory Reporting Controllers Derivatives Reporting team.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end accountability of external reporting derivatives related regulatory and US GAAP disclosure preparation, including SEC 10Q/K, FR Y-9C, Bank Call Report, FR Y-15, FR 2510, etc.
• Assess impact of changes to external reporting, including adoption of new technology
• Provide guidance and oversight of controls and analytics
• Lead strategic transformation of workflows
• Partner with stakeholders across the firm on strategic business initiatives, new product requests, and automation/workflow enhancements
• Drive new process implementation, control framework enhancements, and new disclosure requirements
• Liaise with Goldman’s regulators on quarterly results, new guidance, changes to reporting and interpretive matters

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Undergraduate degree in Accounting and/or Finance
• 10+ years of working experience in accounting at a large banking organization
• Strong analytical/interpersonal skills and a high proficiency with Microsoft software applications
• Must possess strong written/verbal communication and organizational skills
• Teamwork and collaboration-oriented, with the ability to work independently
• Must demonstrate considerable energy, focus, drive, and a sense of urgency
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, operate within deadlines, and elevate when appropriate
• Well-versed in US GAAP accounting and SEC reporting standards
• SEC / Federal Reserve regulatory reporting experience a plus

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this Jersey City, United States based position is $100000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits

Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience.

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Vacation

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.