VP Controller — Commercial Bank
Owning the close, regulatory reporting, and the board package for a $4.8B balance sheet — today.
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.

Roderick Arevalo — in numbers
years leading FI accounting & regulatory reporting
largest institution supported
balance sheet I help steer today as VP Controller
charters mastered — commercial banks & credit unions
Career wins
Two decades of taking financial institutions' numbers from good enough to bulletproof.
Owning the close, regulatory reporting, and the board package for a $4.8B balance sheet — today.
Led credit union finance teams through major strategic change — and the reporting never missed a beat.
Capital, liquidity, and rate-risk programs that stand up to examiners — at institutions from $1B to $18B+.
Financial reporting boards actually use — trustworthy, repeatable, and built for decisions.
Expertise
Call reports, stress testing, and examiner-ready filings — on time, every cycle.
A close that's clean, documented, and repeatable. Auditors sign off; nobody sweats.
Rate risk, liquidity, and capital modeled before they become surprises.
Packages that turn raw numbers into decisions — built for directors, not accountants.
Python, analytics, and AI applied to finance ops — operational solutions for today's problems.
Projects
#COST SAVINGS #REVENUE #CARD PORTFOLIO
Surfaced $8MM+ for one institution — as measured by a $2MM+ reserve release, $1MM+ in annual recurring savings, and a $6MM+ revenue leak recovered over four years — by rebuilding a card rewards reserve from real cardholder behavior and reconciling interchange income line by line against contract terms.
Explore the project →#AI #AUTOMATION #FINANCE
Delivered institution-grade portfolio reporting no brokerage provides — as measured by monthly returns benchmarked against SPY and QQQ, options income tracked to the dollar, and four account types consolidated into one view — by building a self-hosted Python system on the Schwab API.


#EDUCATION #FINANCE #LITERACY
Turning financial literacy into real savings for ages 14–25 — measured in actual dollars earned toward a college fund, vocational training, or a head start on retirement — by building a gamified platform where challenges, streaks, and milestones pay out real money. Not badges. Not gift cards.
I also write — about careers, leadership, and how AI is reshaping work.
Skills
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.
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.
GAAP compliance, stress testing, regulatory reporting — I build the financial infrastructure that regulators and auditors sign off on, not scramble-season workarounds.
Traditional finance rigor paired with data analytics and AI — finding operational solutions for today's problems is the whole point.
Finance that pays for itself — I run the department as a profit contributor, not overhead.
Contact
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