Head of European Controller Group

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive.   We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. 

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other. 

• Provides executive leadership and management:
  • Corporate Accounting
  • Corporate Payables function
  • Financial Systems & Automation
• Demonstrates leadership skills in providing solutions to colleagues within the Finance team and across business lines and support functions.
• Takes responsibility for effective liaison with the USB Controller Group, Payments Finance and other Group Finance functions, ensuring that USBE delivers to required standards and that relationships are managed to a high standard.
• Establishes a framework and practice for positive stakeholder management and customer service comprehensively addressing the needs of stakeholders including regulators, auditors, senior management, business lines and support functions. 
• Delivers synergies across the teams within the Controller Group and with colleagues across the group.
• Delivers efficiencies which can be tangibly measured in capacity levels and output, constantly challenging process efficiency, seeking new automations and evaluating alternative delivery methods.
• Responsible for accounting processes, financial control and financial reporting across all European legal entities, including c.16 sets of statutory Financial Statements.
• Owns the relationship with the external auditor, Forvis Mazars, and is responsible for the successful outcome of the Financial Statement audits.
• Responsible for the annual Sustainability Report for Europe to achieve compliance with CSRD.
• Provides accounting support to USB in respect of accounting for non-$ businesses.
• Accountable for management of Financial Systems and delivery of on-going automation of financial accounting and reporting processes
• Accountable for the European Accounts Payable processes and ensuring all adequate processes and controls in place to deliver a high-quality service to suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Puts in place adequately designed and effectively executed controls and reconciliations to warrant that the control environment around financial accounting and reporting processes is robust, fully meeting internal and external standards, and solid levels of data integrity.
• Ensures that financial accounting processes provide a solid foundation on which downstream areas (e.g. Regulatory Reporting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Management Reporting, Business Partnering and Tax) can rely.
• Takes ownership for completeness and accuracy of processes and integrity of primary financial information, including rationalization and explanations of balances and movements.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Meeting accounting and reporting deadlines – internal and external
• Maintaining a Satisfactory status in internal control reviews
• Achieving high levels of stakeholder and customer satisfaction
• Realising continuing gains in efficiency through challenge and redesign of key processes and implementation of automation
• Effective delivery of financial close with a no-surprises approach to ensure a solid foundation for downstream areas.

Essential Qualifications:

• 8+ years of banking experience.
• 3+ years of management experience.                            
• Degree/professional qualification in Economics, Accounting/Finance, Applied Math/Science, or related field
• Well-developed leadership abilities and strategic management skills.
• Knowledge of financial accounting and reporting process management                            
• Well-developed verbal and written communication skills.
• Well-developed analytical, decision-making and problem-solving skills.               
• Considerable tact, diplomacy and people skills.  
• Demonstrable experience of executive level stakeholder management
• Demonstrable experience of finance team transformation. 

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.