Financial Analyst - ICFR + COSO Designing

- 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.