Manager, Product Control

Commonwealth Bank of Australia; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is seeking a Product Control Manager to oversee daily P&L production and month-end close across its Global Markets footprint in London, Amsterdam and New York. The role focuses on independent financial control, risk reporting and process improvement using AI-enabled analytics.

Ideal candidates are accounting-qualified with 4–7 years in product control within Financial Markets, and strong Excel, SQL and derivative pricing knowledge.

Qualifications

• Bring extensive product control experience within a Financial Markets environment.
• Understand derivative valuations, pricing techniques and P&L decomposition reporting.
• Apply AI tools to enhance productivity and insight.
• Have a demonstrated track record in process improvement and change management.
• Communicate and elevate results and issues clearly and succinctly.

Responsibilities

• Shape the independent financial control and P&L integrity of a global Financial Markets business.
• Bring your product control expertise to a globally connected team where your ideas drive real change.
• Deliver the insight that underpins confident, well-informed trading and risk decisions.
• Prepare and validate daily P&L, including detailed analysis, attribution and explanation of key movements.
• Perform month-end accounting, balance sheet validation and General Ledger reconciliations, ensuring completeness, accuracy and integrity.
• Produce daily risk reporting covering new transactions, referrals and significant P&L movements.
• Investigate and resolve front-to-back reconciliation breaks, escalating material issues where appropriate.
• Prepare clear daily and monthly P&L commentary and present results to desk and branch heads.
• Support Capital Structuring activities for London and Amsterdam, including month-end close, analysis of performance drivers and business partnering with relevant stakeholders
• Compile, maintain and enhance Standard Operating Procedures across Product Control processes and controls.
• Identify and implement productivity and process-improvement initiatives, including applying AI tools to enhance analysis and decision-making.

Skills

FX & Rates Knowledge

Derivative Valuations & P&L

AI Tools for productivity

Change Management

Education

ACCA/CIMA/ACA or equivalent

Tools

SQL

Database familiarity

Excel

Job description

About the role

Do Work That Matters: Institutional Banking and Markets manages the Group's relationships with major corporate and government clients and institutional investors, providing a full range of capital raising, transactional and risk management products and services. IB&M Finance supports these businesses with financial control, financial analysis, product control and regulatory accounting. Globally, Product Control is responsible for the independent oversight and financial control of the Financial Markets business across the full product range, including daily P&L production and analysis, month-end accounting and General Ledger reconciliations., As a Product Control Manager, you'll provide independent oversight and financial control across our London, Amsterdam and New York Financial Markets businesses, reporting to the Executive Manager, Product Control. You'll own daily P&L production and analysis, month-end accounting and balance sheet reconciliations, while partnering closely with Global Markets, Capital Structuring, Risk Management, Operations and Group Treasury. It's a role for someone who brings deep product control expertise and a genuine passion for using AI and process improvement to sharpen how the team works.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape the independent financial control and P&L integrity of a global Financial Markets business.
• Bring your product control expertise to a globally connected team where your ideas drive real change.
• Deliver the insight that underpins confident, well-informed trading and risk decisions.
• Prepare and validate daily P&L, including detailed analysis, attribution and explanation of key movements.
• Perform month-end accounting, balance sheet validation and General Ledger reconciliations, ensuring completeness, accuracy and integrity.
• Produce daily risk reporting covering new transactions, referrals and significant P&L movements.
• Investigate and resolve front-to-back reconciliation breaks, escalating material issues where appropriate.
• Prepare clear daily and monthly P&L commentary and present results to desk and branch heads.
• Support Capital Structuring activities for London and Amsterdam, including month-end close, analysis of performance drivers and business partnering with relevant stakeholders
• Compile, maintain and enhance Standard Operating Procedures across Product Control processes and controls.
• Identify and implement productivity and process-improvement initiatives, including applying AI tools to enhance analysis and decision-making.
• Support system implementation and change projects, including User Acceptance Testing.

We're looking for an accounting-qualified professional with 4-7 years experience in product control who thrives on accuracy, insight and continuous improvement. You'll bring strong Financial Markets product knowledge and a forward-thinking approach to how technology can elevate the function.

Qualifications

• Are accounting qualified (CIMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent).
• Bring extensive product control experience within a Financial Markets environment.
• Have strong knowledge across FX, Fixed & Rates Income products, with Repo experience highly regarded.
• Understand derivative valuations, pricing techniques and P&L decomposition reporting.
• Apply AI tools to enhance productivity and insight.
• Have a demonstrated track record in process improvement and change management.
• Communicate and elevate results and issues clearly and succinctly.
• Bring advanced Excel skills, with SQL and database familiarity an advantage.