Vice President, Accountant
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections with real specific content.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate: EEO, etc. Also remove application instructions, navigation, cookie, legal.
We need to preserve all substantive info. Let's parse content.
Job Description BNY is seeking a Vice President, Controllers to support our Corporate Staff functions. This role is ideal for an accounting professional who brings strong technical expertise, sound judgment, and a creative approach to problem-solving. The successful candidate will help oversee financial reporting, analysis, and controls while partnering closely with key stakeholders across Corporate Staff areas. We are looking for someone with 5–10 years of accounting experience who can balance precision with innovation — someone who not only understands the numbers, but also knows how to challenge assumptions, improve processes, and think outside the box. In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: (list)
Then bullet list of responsibilities.
Then "To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:" then Education & Qualifications, Experience, etc.
Then "About The Team" with some info about culture, news, awards.
Then "Our Benefits And Rewards" with description of benefits.
We need to map to sections: About the role (intro paragraph), Responsibilities (list), Requirements (maybe Education & Qualifications + Experience?), Qualifications (maybe same?), Skills (maybe analytical, communication, problem-solving), Benefits (Our Benefits And Rewards), Pay (maybe mention base salary? It says expected base salary can be found in Job Info section at bottom; not given specifics, so we should not include Pay section because no specific content. Schedule not mentioned.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". So only include sections where we have concrete content.
We have About the role: we have introductory paragraph describing role. That's substantive.
Responsibilities: we have bullet list of duties.
Requirements: we have Education & Qualifications and Experience sections. Could combine into Requirements.
Qualifications: maybe we could separate Education & Qualifications as Qualifications, Experience as Requirements? But we need to avoid thin sections. Better to have one Requirements section covering education, experience, skills.
Skills: we have "Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills." Could be part of Requirements.
Benefits: we have description of benefits.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits.
We must not include Pay or Schedule.
We need to use for each section heading. Use - for lists. Use
for prose.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from the posting, but we can rephrase? Must preserve meaning, not invent. We can keep same sentences.
We need to remove boilerplate: EEO statement, navigation, cookie, legal, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer..." etc. Also remove "BNY assesses market data..." etc. Also remove "If hired, the employee will be in an “at will” position..." etc. Also remove "Our Benefits And Rewards" maybe we keep but need to strip boilerplate within? The benefits paragraph includes some generic statements but it's substantive about benefits. We should keep it but remove any fluff like "BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy." That's okay. Also "We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey." Keep. "Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter." Keep.
We should also remove duplicated lines like "BNY offers highly competitive compensation..." maybe not duplicate.
Now let's extract content.
Intro paragraph: "BNY is seeking a Vice President, Controllers to support our Corporate Staff functions. This role is ideal for an accounting professional who brings strong technical expertise, sound judgment, and a creative approach to problem-solving. The successful candidate will help oversee financial reporting, analysis, and controls while partnering closely with key stakeholders across Corporate Staff areas. We are looking for someone with 5–10 years of accounting experience who can balance precision with innovation — someone who not only understands the numbers, but also knows how to challenge assumptions, improve processes, and think outside the box."
That's About the role.
Responsibilities list: after "In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:" then bullet points:
- Lead and perform accounting activities supporting Corporate Staff areas, ensuring financial results are accurate, complete, and compliant with applicable accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and internal policies.
- Support the daily balance sheet review and analysis process, ensuring timely identification and resolution of issues.
- Support and actively participate in the month-end close process, including the review of accounting results, reconciliations, journal entries, and financial reporting deliverables.
- Analyze financial performance, investigate variances, and provide clear, actionable insights and recommendations to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
- Drive transformation initiatives by streamlining processes, modernizing reporting capabilities, and leveraging data and technology to improve decision-making and operational effectiveness.
- Strengthen the control environment by proactively identifying risks, resolving issues, and implementing sustainable process improvements that mitigate operational and financial risk.
We need to keep each as
- .
Then "To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:" then subheadings Education & Qualifications, Experience, etc.
Education & Qualifications: "Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance. CPA, MBA, or other relevant professional certification preferred."
Experience: "Typically, 5–10 years of progressive accounting, financial reporting, or controllership experience. Demonstrated experience in financial analysis, month-end close, reconciliations, and control management. Proven ability to drive process improvements, manage competing priorities, and influence stakeholders across all levels of the organization. Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills."
We could combine into Requirements section.
We might also separate Skills: but we already have skills in Experience.
Thus Requirements section will contain paragraphs: Education & Qualifications paragraph, Experience paragraph.
We need to preserve all details.
Now About The Team: "At BNY, our culture speaks for itself, check out the latest BNY news at BNY Newsroom & BNY LinkedIn Here’s a Few Of Our Recent Awards America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2025World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2025“Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2025"
We need to keep that but maybe it's somewhat promotional; still substantive. We'll include as a paragraph.
But note: The instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Could we merge About The Team into About the role? Probably not; it's separate content about team culture. Could be its own section but we don't have a predefined heading for "About the Team". The allowed headings list includes About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. No "About the Team". So we should not create a heading not in list. We could fold that content into About the role or Benefits? Probably About the role is appropriate to include team culture. However the instruction: "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It says e.g., implying those are examples, but we should only use those headings? It says "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." Likely we should restrict to those headings. So we should not create a heading like "About the Team". We can incorporate that content into About the role or Benefits. Probably About the role is fine.
Thus we will have sections: About the role (includes intro + team culture), Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits.
Now Benefits section: "Our Benefits And Rewards BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter."
We should also maybe include mention of 401(k), medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, etc. The paragraph after that includes: "Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan as well as participate in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents. Eligible employees also may receive other benefits (including various paid time off benefits, such as vacation and sick time), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment."
We should keep that as part of Benefits.
We must remove boilerplate like "BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer..." etc. Also remove "If hired, the employee will be in an “at will” position..." etc.
Now we need to output only HTML fragment.
Let's craft:
About the role
BNY is seeking a Vice President, Controllers to support our Corporate Staff functions. This role is ideal for an accounting professional who brings strong technical expertise, sound judgment, and a creative approach to problem-solving. The successful candidate will help oversee financial reporting, analysis, and controls while partnering closely with key stakeholders across Corporate Staff areas. We are looking for someone with 5–10 years of accounting experience who can balance precision with innovation — someone who not only understands the numbers, but also knows how to challenge assumptions, improve processes, and think outside the box. At BNY, our culture speaks for itself, check out the latest BNY news at BNY Newsroom & BNY LinkedIn. Here’s a few of our recent awards: America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2025; World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2025; “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2025.
Responsibilities
- Lead and perform accounting activities supporting Corporate Staff areas, ensuring financial results are accurate, complete, and compliant with applicable accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and internal policies.
- Support the daily balance sheet review and analysis process, ensuring timely identification and resolution of issues.
- Support and actively participate in the month-end close process, including the review of accounting results, reconciliations, journal entries, and financial reporting deliverables.
- Analyze financial performance, investigate variances, and provide clear, actionable insights and recommendations to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
- Drive transformation initiatives by streamlining processes, modernizing reporting capabilities, and leveraging data and technology to improve decision-making and operational effectiveness.
- Strengthen the control environment by proactively identifying risks, resolving issues, and implementing sustainable process improvements that mitigate operational and financial risk.
Requirements
Education & Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance. CPA, MBA, or other relevant professional certification preferred.
Experience: Typically, 5–10 years of progressive accounting, financial reporting, or controllership experience. Demonstrated experience in financial analysis, month-end close, reconciliations, and control management. Proven ability to drive process improvements, manage competing priorities, and influence stakeholders across all levels of the organization. Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- for lists. Use
for prose. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from the posting, but we can rephrase? Must preserve meaning, not invent. We can keep same sentences. We need to remove boilerplate: EEO statement, navigation, cookie, legal, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer..." etc. Also remove "BNY assesses market data..." etc. Also remove "If hired, the employee will be in an “at will” position..." etc. Also remove "Our Benefits And Rewards" maybe we keep but need to strip boilerplate within? The benefits paragraph includes some generic statements but it's substantive about benefits. We should keep it but remove any fluff like "BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy." That's okay. Also "We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey." Keep. "Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter." Keep. We should also remove duplicated lines like "BNY offers highly competitive compensation..." maybe not duplicate. Now let's extract content. Intro paragraph: "BNY is seeking a Vice President, Controllers to support our Corporate Staff functions. This role is ideal for an accounting professional who brings strong technical expertise, sound judgment, and a creative approach to problem-solving. The successful candidate will help oversee financial reporting, analysis, and controls while partnering closely with key stakeholders across Corporate Staff areas. We are looking for someone with 5–10 years of accounting experience who can balance precision with innovation — someone who not only understands the numbers, but also knows how to challenge assumptions, improve processes, and think outside the box." That's About the role. Responsibilities list: after "In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:" then bullet points: - Lead and perform accounting activities supporting Corporate Staff areas, ensuring financial results are accurate, complete, and compliant with applicable accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and internal policies. - Support the daily balance sheet review and analysis process, ensuring timely identification and resolution of issues. - Support and actively participate in the month-end close process, including the review of accounting results, reconciliations, journal entries, and financial reporting deliverables. - Analyze financial performance, investigate variances, and provide clear, actionable insights and recommendations to senior leadership and key stakeholders. - Drive transformation initiatives by streamlining processes, modernizing reporting capabilities, and leveraging data and technology to improve decision-making and operational effectiveness. - Strengthen the control environment by proactively identifying risks, resolving issues, and implementing sustainable process improvements that mitigate operational and financial risk. We need to keep each as
- .
Then "To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:" then subheadings Education & Qualifications, Experience, etc.
Education & Qualifications: "Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance. CPA, MBA, or other relevant professional certification preferred."
Experience: "Typically, 5–10 years of progressive accounting, financial reporting, or controllership experience. Demonstrated experience in financial analysis, month-end close, reconciliations, and control management. Proven ability to drive process improvements, manage competing priorities, and influence stakeholders across all levels of the organization. Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills."
We could combine into Requirements section.
We might also separate Skills: but we already have skills in Experience.
Thus Requirements section will contain paragraphs: Education & Qualifications paragraph, Experience paragraph.
We need to preserve all details.
Now About The Team: "At BNY, our culture speaks for itself, check out the latest BNY news at BNY Newsroom & BNY LinkedIn Here’s a Few Of Our Recent Awards America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2025World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2025“Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2025"
We need to keep that but maybe it's somewhat promotional; still substantive. We'll include as a paragraph.
But note: The instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Could we merge About The Team into About the role? Probably not; it's separate content about team culture. Could be its own section but we don't have a predefined heading for "About the Team". The allowed headings list includes About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. No "About the Team". So we should not create a heading not in list. We could fold that content into About the role or Benefits? Probably About the role is appropriate to include team culture. However the instruction: "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It says e.g., implying those are examples, but we should only use those headings? It says "use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." Likely we should restrict to those headings. So we should not create a heading like "About the Team". We can incorporate that content into About the role or Benefits. Probably About the role is fine. Thus we will have sections: About the role (includes intro + team culture), Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits. Now Benefits section: "Our Benefits And Rewards BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter." We should also maybe include mention of 401(k), medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, etc. The paragraph after that includes: "Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan as well as participate in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents. Eligible employees also may receive other benefits (including various paid time off benefits, such as vacation and sick time), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment." We should keep that as part of Benefits. We must remove boilerplate like "BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer..." etc. Also remove "If hired, the employee will be in an “at will” position..." etc. Now we need to output only HTML fragment. Let's craft:
About the role
BNY is seeking a Vice President, Controllers to support our Corporate Staff functions. This role is ideal for an accounting professional who brings strong technical expertise, sound judgment, and a creative approach to problem-solving. The successful candidate will help oversee financial reporting, analysis, and controls while partnering closely with key stakeholders across Corporate Staff areas. We are looking for someone with 5–10 years of accounting experience who can balance precision with innovation — someone who not only understands the numbers, but also knows how to challenge assumptions, improve processes, and think outside the box. At BNY, our culture speaks for itself, check out the latest BNY news at BNY Newsroom & BNY LinkedIn. Here’s a few of our recent awards: America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2025; World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2025; “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2025.
Responsibilities
- Lead and perform accounting activities supporting Corporate Staff areas, ensuring financial results are accurate, complete, and compliant with applicable accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and internal policies.
- Support the daily balance sheet review and analysis process, ensuring timely identification and resolution of issues.
- Support and actively participate in the month-end close process, including the review of accounting results, reconciliations, journal entries, and financial reporting deliverables.
- Analyze financial performance, investigate variances, and provide clear, actionable insights and recommendations to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
- Drive transformation initiatives by streamlining processes, modernizing reporting capabilities, and leveraging data and technology to improve decision-making and operational effectiveness.
- Strengthen the control environment by proactively identifying risks, resolving issues, and implementing sustainable process improvements that mitigate operational and financial risk.
Requirements
Education & Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance. CPA, MBA, or other relevant professional certification preferred.
Experience: Typically, 5–10 years of progressive accounting, financial reporting, or controllership experience. Demonstrated experience in financial analysis, month-end close, reconciliations, and control management. Proven ability to drive process improvements, manage competing priorities, and influence stakeholders across all levels of the organization. Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.