About the Role

The Business COSO team supports the Company's on-going objective of maintaining an industry-leading financial reporting control environment and is responsible for the following directives:

- Providing meaningful assessments of financial, risk, and regulatory reporting control environment;

- Overseeing compliance with Well Fargo & Company's COSO based policies for internal controls over financial reporting and strategic planning for on-going compliance with the COSO policies;

- Monitoring new and emerging internal control related guidance and issues and assist with facilitating group-wide training to interested and impacted stakeholders;

- Providing consultation and subject matter expertise for process and control related matters including evaluating severity of control deficiencies and related remediation efforts;

- Interfacing with external auditors, regulators and others on control related matters; and,

- Acting as a change agent for continual improvement of the control environment.

Responsibilities :

This individual will contribute to the development and leadership of the Business COSO team by

- Leading the offshore Business controls teams for EC&O at Wells Fargo India & Philippines:

- Partnering with process owners/control owners to oversee documentation of significant, in-scope processes according to corporate COSO policy (e.g., process narratives, process flow diagrams). Additionally, assessing key risks and the appropriateness and completeness of key controls identified;

- Performing walkthroughs of significant processes and ensure required COSO documentation is accurate and reflects relevant risk and key controls;

- Validating and challenging risk assessment conclusions, including assessing appropriateness and completeness of key risk and key controls identified;

- Validating and providing a challenge to the identification of shared services, third-party service providers, and significant applications

- Overseeing the performance of COSO testing of key controls, including design effectiveness assessments and operating effectiveness testing

- Confirming and challenging documentation of control deficiencies, including issue description, root cause, unmitigated impact, and corrective actions

- Analysis of the severity of control deficiencies, both individually and in the aggregate, and the impact to internal control over financial reporting

- Assessing the components of internal control for the business unit

- Evaluating the impact of control deficiencies to existing processes and controls

- Building relationships and collaborating with key stakeholders in the applicable lines of business functions related to assigned process areas, SEC and Regulatory Reporting internal control infrastructures

- Assisting with projects impacting the team including implementing the Company's COSO-based Regulatory Reporting Governance & Oversight Framework and the 2013 COSO Framework

Essential Qualifications:

The successful candidate will be a highly motivated team player that is a self-starter who is accustomed to working in complex organizations with a diverse group of stakeholders, and someone who is able to withstand challenges and adapt accordingly. This individual should have COSO documentation and testing experience. Additionally, the candidate should possess a significant amount of professional presence and be accustomed to presenting material to senior executives.

- 13+ years of experience in one or a combination of the following: Auditing, Accounting, Analytics, Reporting

- 9+ years of Team management experience of a team size of 25 to 40 team members

- A BS/BA degree or higher in accounting, finance, or economics

- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

- Advance knowledge of PowerPoint and/or the creation of executive financial briefings

OTHER DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Big four public accounting experience, A Masters of Business Administration (MBA) or a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or a Chartered Accountant (CA) Designation

- Experience with governance and oversight accountabilities

- Experience with large financial institutions

- Ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and achieve goals and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment

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