Vice President, Controller

Overview

As Vice President, Controller for Core Payments, you lead the controllership posture for a strategically important, blockchain-enabled payments business. You partner with global finance, GBSC, Tax, Legal, and Treasury to drive accurate financial reporting, audit readiness, and governance. You will shape a best-in-class controllership function for an acquired unit, overseeing regulatory, statutory, and treasury considerations. You’ll manage external audits, US GAAP-to-local GAAP bridging, and ongoing compliance in a complex global environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide authoritative accounting judgment on complex transactions, digital assets, revenue recognition, and regulatory matters
• Drive consistent application of policies and controls across global/regional teams
• Manage external audits and ensure audit documentation and issue resolution
• Oversee SOX, statutory reporting, regulatory compliance, and risk escalation
• Define and execute the integration compliance roadmap for the acquired business
• Establish robust compliance reporting during integration period
• Maintain audit-ready documentation and transition-readiness for policy/process changes
• Maintain statutory compliance registers for digital payments entities
• Coordinate with Legal, Compliance, Treasury, Tax, and Controllership on crypto, settlement, and regulatory requirements
• Lead management reporting and executive-level communications on financial status and risks

Key requirements

• Senior controllership and technical accounting leadership in a complex global public company
• Deep knowledge of US GAAP and/or IFRS; experience with crypto assets and stablecoins preferred
• Ability to advise senior finance and audit stakeholders on complex accounting matters
• Experience with digital assets, fintech, payments, treasury, settlement, or regulatory compliance preferred
• Proven ability to strengthen governance and drive remediation in a matrix organization
• Executive presence and strong communication skills
• Strategic, process-minded change agent with cross-functional leadership experience
• People leadership with ability to coach and develop accounting teams

• executive communication
• strategic thinking
• leadership judgment
• US GAAP and IFRS expertise
• digital asset accounting (crypto assets, stablecoins)
• revenue recognition and balance sheet classification

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