Global Payments Project Product Controller Vice President

As a VP Global Payments Project Product Controller within the Product Control team in London you will lead the delivery of strategic finance and Product Control change initiatives ensuring BAU Product Control deliverables including P&L and balance sheet substantiation/controls and month-end close requirements are satisfied. You will partner with stakeholders across Finance Operations Technology and the business to execute a diverse portfolio of Kinexys initiativesranging from multi-year programs (e.g. digital asset tokenisation digital payments tokenisation) to continuous improvement of finance processes controls and operating models.

Job responsibilities (Project delivery focus with BAU alignment)

• Own end-to-end project/change delivery for Product Control initiatives partnering with the Kinexys Product Controller to define scope requirements operating model design implementation planning UAT/parallel run and substantiation proving cutover readiness and post-implementation stabilization and control validation.
• Gather analyse and document business requirements; support business and technology teams to translate them into functional specifications and process/control designs.
• Ensure BAU issues breaks and control gaps are captured assessed and translated into initiative requirements and prioritised enhancements in partnership with BAU Product Control teams.
• Support the design and/or review of target operating models and process flows ensuring alignment with regional and global standards and governance.
• Partner with BAU teams to define and document requirements for controlled migration of reference data and product-system feeds into target finance environments.
• Coordinate delivery activities with Business Leads and Project Managers; manage dependencies across functions and regions.
• Drive project governance (including NPA) and execution by managing RAID escalating issues and ensuring timely decisions with stakeholders (including Finance project managers).
• Maintain high-quality project documentation (risk assessments requirements operating model documents procedures sign-offs) in the agreed repository.
• Support stakeholder readiness through training communications and implementation support where required.
• Maintain alignment to BAU Product Control by ensuring changes are control-safe auditable and operationally sustainable; support BAU close/substantiation deliverables as needed particularly during key delivery milestones.
• Provide coaching and day-to-day oversight for junior BAs / team members as applicable.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Strong understanding of Product Control accounting and finance control frameworks (close substantiation balance sheet/P&L controls) and how to embed them into change delivery.
• Demonstrable experience delivering complex projects through structured business analysis governance and lifecycle controls.
• Knowledge of finance and product technology platforms and data flows including interfaces/feeds into finance environments.
• Strong stakeholder management influencing negotiation and conflict management skills in a matrixed organisation.
• Sound judgment and ability to balance delivery timelines with control integrity and operational risk considerations.
• Clear concise written and verbal communication skills; strong documentation discipline.
• Inquisitive team player with ability to multi-task across BAU priorities and a change portfolio.

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Experience delivering finance/Product Control change in global payments and/or broader financial services.
• Exposure to strategic system replacements operating model transformation data migration or process reengineering.
• Professional certifications such as CIMA ACA ACCA etc.
• Experience with SAP GL and financial reporting systems.