Senior Accountant - Product Controller

Broadview Federal Credit Union•Albany, NY

1d•$85,000 - $116,196

About The Position

The Product Controller role is established to strengthen product-level financial accuracy, accounting integrity, internal controls, and reporting governance. This role resides within Accounting and is responsible for maintaining the integrity of the official books and records for assigned products, including explicit ownership of controls and reconciliation over third-party financial data, while partnering closely with the Management Profit & Loss (P&L) team and Finance to support management reporting, forecasting, and ACL (Allowance for Credit Losses) coverage. This role serves as the designated Product Controller for the Loss Mitigation business area, with responsibility for accounting accuracy, controls, reporting governance, and cross-functional coordination related to Loss Mitigation activities. The role requires the ability to lead through influence, reinforce governance expectations, and drive timely issue resolution across teams while maintaining strong professional relationships. Business scope: Loss Mitigation activities (e.g., modifications, collections/servicing actions, charge-offs, recoveries, and related fees/expenses) as applicable to the assigned portfolio. Financial scope: Owns product-level accounting positions and close deliverables, including journal entries, accruals, balance sheet accounts, and P&L activity attributable to Loss Mitigation. Data scope: Ensures traceability from operational sources and/or sub-ledgers through the General Ledger to financial and management reporting. Key partners: Accounting (official books/records), Management P&L (management reporting view), Finance (forecast/budget), Risk/CECL (credit loss framework), Operations, and IT/Data. Systems/tools (fill in): General Ledger: Prologue Operational platform(s): AKUVO, DNA, Black Knight; Sub-ledger/warehouse: ARCSys

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
5–7+ years of experience in Accounting or Product / Portfolio Finance
Strong knowledge of US GAAP, reconciliations, and internal controls
Experience with SOX/ICFR (or equivalent) control design, execution, and audit support, including documentation standards and evidence retention (as applicable)
Strong Excel skills; experience using data and reporting tools (e.g., SQL, Power BI/Tableau, or similar) to perform reconciliations, analysis, and control monitoring
Experience partnering with Finance, P&L, Risk, and Loss Mitigation/Credit Risk

Nice To Haves

Financial services or banking experience strongly preferred
Bilingual individuals who are fluent in a second language in addition to English are highly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

Own product‑level accounting, including balances, activity, accruals, charge‑offs, recoveries, and journal entries
Ensure compliance with US GAAP and internal accounting policies
Lead month‑end and quarter‑end close activities related to assigned products
Support internal and external audits with clear documentation and evidentiary support
Serve as primary owner of reconciliations between operational systems, sub‑ledgers, third‑party platforms, and the General Ledger
Investigate, resolve, and document reconciling items with defined escalation protocols
Establish reconciliation standards, materiality thresholds, and aging monitoring
Strengthen preventive and detective controls to ensure completeness and accuracy of financial data
Own and oversee reconciliations with third‑party service providers (e.g., collections, recoveries, servicing, and loss mitigation vendors), ensuring completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and end‑to‑end traceability from vendor reports through sub‑ledgers to the General Ledger
Validate third‑party data feeds, statements, and invoices using standardized reconciliation procedures, defined variance thresholds, and aging analysis
Coordinate investigation and resolution of third‑party discrepancies with Loss Mitigation and Management P&L, and maintain documented issue logs and remediation tracking
Retain reconciliation evidence and control documentation to support audit, SOX/ICFR, and regulatory requirements
Partner closely with the Management P&L and Finance team to support product‑level financial reporting, performance metrics, and executive presentations
Collaborate with forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis
Support ACL/CECL processes by validating product-level data inputs (completeness, accuracy, and timeliness), preparing key reconciliations/tie-outs between source systems, sub-ledgers, management views, and the General Ledger, and documenting variances and resolutions for model governance and audit readiness
Serve as an accounting point of contact for CECL/ACL governance by providing support for process documentation and control evidence for assigned inputs and reconciliations (control ownership and model ownership remain with the designated process/model owners)
Ensure financial, risk, and management reports are aligned and traceable to authoritative data sources
Act as control owner for product‑level accounting and reporting processes, including key controls over third‑party financial data and reconciliations.
Maintain policies and procedures documentation
Enforce change‑management practices for new products, system changes, and reporting updates
Maintain data lineage documentation and source‑to‑report mappings
Implement preventive and detective controls related to third‑party data completeness, accuracy, timeliness, review, and sign‑off
Define escalation protocols and remediation timelines for third‑party reconciliation issues and recurring variances