EVP/Chief Financial Officer
James R. Reske is an Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of First Commonwealth Financial Corporation (FCF), the parent company of First Commonwealth Bank.[[3]](https://firstcommonwealthbank.q4ir.com/corporate-information/officers-directors/person-details/default.aspx?itemid=0359911d-5a5d-441a-9d2d-53dfff8f6290)[[5]](https://www.fcbanking.com/why-us/leadership/) In this role, he oversees all major financial functions of the organization, including accounting policies, regulatory and tax reporting, budgeting and forecasting, treasury management, and investor relations, and serves as part of the company’s executive leadership team reporting to the President and CEO.[[1]](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/james-r-reske-hired-as-executive-vice-president-and-chief-financial-officer-of-first-commonwealth-financial-corporation-254797171.html)[[2]](https://firstcommonwealthbank.q4ir.com/news-market-data/news/news-details/2014/James-R.-Reske-Hired-as-Executive-Vice-President-and-Chief-Financial-Officer-of-First-Commonwealth-Financial-Corporation/default.aspx)[[3]](https://firstcommonwealthbank.q4ir.com/corporate-information/officers-directors/person-details/default.aspx?itemid=0359911d-5a5d-441a-9d2d-53dfff8f6290) As a senior corporate officer at a publicly traded financial institution (NYSE: FCF), he is also a reporting corporate insider under U.S. securities regulations.[[1]](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/james-r-reske-hired-as-executive-vice-president-and-chief-financial-officer-of-first-commonwealth-financial-corporation-254797171.html)
Reske’s career spans corporate finance, investment banking, law, and regulatory work in the financial services sector. Before joining First Commonwealth, he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer of United Community Financial Corporation in Youngstown, Ohio, where he directed all financial and accounting activities and oversaw the institution’s retail and information technology divisions.[[1]](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/james-r-reske-hired-as-executive-vice-president-and-chief-financial-officer-of-first-commonwealth-financial-corporation-254797171.html)[[2]](https://firstcommonwealthbank.q4ir.com/news-market-data/news/news-details/2014/James-R.-Reske-Hired-as-Executive-Vice-President-and-Chief-Financial-Officer-of-First-Commonwealth-Financial-Corporation/default.aspx)[[3]](https://firstcommonwealthbank.q4ir.com/corporate-information/officers-directors/person-details/default.aspx?itemid=0359911d-5a5d-441a-9d2d-53dfff8f6290) His prior experience includes investment banking roles in the Financial Institutions Groups at KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. and earlier legal practice as an attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Sullivan & Cromwell, advising financial institutions on mergers, acquisitions, and capital markets transactions.[[1]](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/james-r-reske-hired-as-executive-vice-president-and-chief-financial-officer-of-first-commonwealth-financial-corporation-254797171.html)[[2]](https://firstcommonwealthbank.q4ir.com/news-market-data/news/news-details/2014/James-R.-Reske-Hired-as-Executive-Vice-President-and-Chief-Financial-Officer-of-First-Commonwealth-Financial-Corporation/default.aspx)[[3]](https://firstcommonwealthbank.q4ir.com/corporate-information/officers-directors/person-details/default.aspx?itemid=0359911d-5a5d-441a-9d2d-53dfff8f6290) He also held positions at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C., and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, contributing to his regulatory and macro-financial perspective.[[1]](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/james-r-reske-hired-as-executive-vice-president-and-chief-financial-officer-of-first-commonwealth-financial-corporation-254797171.html)[[2]](https://firstcommonwealthbank.q4ir.com/news-market-data/news/news-details/2014/James-R.-Reske-Hired-as-Executive-Vice-President-and-Chief-Financial-Officer-of-First-Commonwealth-Financial-Corporation/default.aspx)[[3]](https://firstcommonwealthbank.q4ir.com/corporate-information/officers-directors/person-details/default.aspx?itemid=0359911d-5a5d-441a-9d2d-53dfff8f6290) Reske earned a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder, and holds a master’s degree in International Business as well as a combined bachelor’s/master’s degree in Communication from The Ohio State University.[[1]](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/james-r-reske-hired-as-executive-vice-president-and-chief-financial-officer-of-first-commonwealth-financial-corporation-254797171.html)[[2]](https://firstcommonwealthbank.q4ir.com/news-market-data/news/news-details/2014/James-R.-Reske-Hired-as-Executive-Vice-President-and-Chief-Financial-Officer-of-First-Commonwealth-Financial-Corporation/default.aspx)[[3]](https://firstcommonwealthbank.q4ir.com/corporate-information/officers-directors/person-details/default.aspx?itemid=0359911d-5a5d-441a-9d2d-53dfff8f6290)[[4]](https://rocketreach.co/james-reske-email_5839993)
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