$4.8B
VP Controller — Commercial Bank
Owning the close, regulatory reporting, and the board package for a $4.8B balance sheet — today.
Numbers your board can bet on.
For 20+ years I've built the reporting, controls, and teams that boards, regulators, and auditors rely on — at institutions from $1B to $18B+ in assets.
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Roderick Arevalo — in numbers
20+
years leading FI accounting & regulatory reporting
$18B+
largest institution supported
$4.8B
balance sheet I help steer today as VP Controller
2
charters mastered — commercial banks & credit unions
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Career wins
Results boards remember.
Two decades of taking financial institutions' numbers from good enough to bulletproof.
Change Maker
Financial Institution Executive
Led credit union finance teams through major strategic change — and the reporting never missed a beat.
Stress Tested
ALM & Risk Programs
Capital, liquidity, and rate-risk programs that stand up to examiners — at institutions from $1B to $18B+.
ALCO
Board-Level Reporting
Financial reporting boards actually use — trustworthy, repeatable, and built for decisions.
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Expertise
One executive. The full finance stack.
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Regulatory reporting
Call reports, stress testing, and examiner-ready filings — on time, every cycle.
02
GAAP & audit readiness
A close that's clean, documented, and repeatable. Auditors sign off; nobody sweats.
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ALM & stress testing
Rate risk, liquidity, and capital modeled before they become surprises.
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Board & ALCO communication
Packages that turn raw numbers into decisions — built for directors, not accountants.
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Data, AI & automation
Python, analytics, and AI applied to finance ops — operational solutions for today's problems.
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Projects
Proof, in dollars and code.
#COST SAVINGS #REVENUE #CARD PORTFOLIO
Cost Savings
Money hides in two places — assumptions nobody revisits and contracts nobody reconciles. I rebuilt a rewards reserve from real cardholder behavior, then reconciled interchange income line by line and took the leak to the negotiating table.
No new products. No headcount cuts. $8MM+ surfaced by disciplined review.
Explore the project →$2MM+Reserves eliminated — one-time adjustment
$1MM+Ongoing savings — annually, in perpetuity
$6MM+Revenue leak plugged — over four years
#AI #AUTOMATION #FINANCE
Investment Performance Dashboard
A self-hosted portfolio reporting system — benchmarked returns, options income tracking, and multi-account consolidation, built with Python and the Schwab API.
StackPython · Schwab API
TypeSelf-hosted reporting system
DeliversBenchmarked returns · Options income to the dollar · One consolidated view
Explore the project →
#EDUCATION #FINANCE #LITERACY
Learn Money. Earn a Future.
A gamified financial literacy platform for ages 14–25. Challenges, streaks, and milestones — the mechanics that make their favorite apps hard to put down, pointed at something that matters.
The difference: the rewards are real. As users build smart money habits they earn actual dollars toward their own future. Not badges. Not gift cards. Money that grows with them.
FocusBudgeting · Credit · Saving & investing
AudienceAges 14–25, and the partners who back them
StatusBuilding now — talking with early partners
Explore the project →I also write — about careers, leadership, and how AI is reshaping work.
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Skills
What you get when I take the seat.
01Numbers people trust
Financial reporting isn't producing numbers — it's building the processes and teams that make those numbers trustworthy, repeatable, and useful for the people making decisions with them.
02Both sides of the industry
Commercial banks and credit unions — I've led finance in both worlds and know them from the inside: the shareholder side and the cooperative side.
03Examiner-ready by default
GAAP compliance, stress testing, regulatory reporting — I build the financial infrastructure that regulators and auditors sign off on, not scramble-season workarounds.
04Old-school discipline, new-school tooling
Traditional finance rigor paired with data analytics and AI — finding operational solutions for today's problems is the whole point.
05Performance driven
Finance that pays for itself — I run the department as a profit contributor, not overhead.
- Automation that cuts hours from every close and reporting cycle
- Vendor and contract scrutiny that surfaces real, recurring savings
- Balance-sheet strategy: pricing, investment yield, and funding mix that add income
- Forecasting that catches cost creep before it compounds
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Contact
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