- Chartered Accountant, or equivalent professional degree required. Bachelors / advanced degree in a related field will be a plus.
- Minimum of 3 years of post-qualification experience in similar or complementary roles is required.
- Excellent understanding of financial concepts, familiarity with the key assertions underpinning financial reporting objectives
- Hands-on experience performing process reviews in areas related to financial instruments such as treasury operations, loans, equities, and valuation of financial instruments
- Good understanding and experience in applying COSO internal control framework and Basel Operational risk guidelines
- Familiarity with IT environments, IT processes, risks and controls;
- Strong analytical and communication skills
ICFR and advisory work
- Contribute to and support the annual ICFR program which includes: scoping, validating business processes and controls design, developing testing strategy for key controls.
- Ensure processes, risks and controls are adequately documented in BWise.
- Review test plans and conduct testing of internal controls design and effectiveness.
- Liaise with relevant BU owners/coordinators, auditors and other stakeholders on ICFR program implementation.
- Support audit requests and enquiries.
- Under the direction of the Program Leads, follow up and work with business units to remediate open deficiencies.
- Ensure data is adequately captured in BWise and contribute to the preparation of quarterly reports.
- Participate in process reviews, from a controls perspective, in relation to new products/ initiatives.
- Advise process owners on process/control improvements, when opportunities are identified through ICFR work.
Operational Risk
- Analyze WFA operational risk events with the event owner, assisting in root cause analysis
- Coordinate WFA business unit submission of quarterly operational risk.
- Participate in the enhancement and analysis of WFA operational risk reporting.
- Leveraging, ICFR process analysis, consider implications of WFA operational risk in Chennai,
- Gather operational risk inputs from WFA business units and ensure that the data is promptly captured in BWise.
- Facilitate proper rollout in Chennai of business continuity action plans approved by WFA's Vice President: review business continuity recovery procedures; review business continuity strategy, facilitate testing, etc.
Systems Support
- Serve as in-house functional specialist for BWise system, to support the ICFR and Operational risk reporting activities.
- Guide business units in using BWise effectively, for the above mentioned initiatives.
- Perform user acceptance testing during BWise system upgrades.
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