Financial Accounting Executive

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking an Enterprise Controls & Oversight Leader that will provide companywide direction on all internal controls over financial reporting and financial governance matters. This role will lead teams performing financial reporting governance & oversight enterprisewide COSO business & technology controls testing and other enterprise governance and oversight functions.

As a key member of the Controller Leadership team this role will report to the Chief Accounting Officer and be responsible for owning and maintaining key companywide policies that govern financial reporting risk for SEC and regulatory reporting establishing annual plantotest and assessing effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting as well as representing financial reporting risk in interactions forums and risk programs with Independent Risk Management. In addition this leader may be responsible for owning or providing oversight of policies related to other enterprise functions.

In this role you will:

• Provide strategic leadership and vision for the Enterprise Controls and Oversight organization

• Define a coordinated methodical endtoend control and testing program that satisfies multiple requirements e.g. SOX and regulatory reporting without being duplicative and provides an endtoend assessment of the organizations financial reporting control environment

• Lead the internal control teams to understand evaluate and improve the design and operating effectiveness of entitylevel business and information technology controls

• Ensure that the lines of business have relevant sound factbased assessments of their financial controls environment to inform their decisionmaking processes

• Bring best practices in standardization and developing a framework that can be consistently executed

• Hire retain develop and motivate a worldclass financial controls testing team

• Manage relationships with business partners across the company and ensure effective delivery of a fullservice control and oversight model to both LOBs and functional areas

• Maintain a balance between risk mitigation and operational efficiency

• Manage communication of testing work with various constituents including the Disclosure and Regulatory Reporting committees Audit Committee and external auditors

• Maintain a relationship with external accountants and assist with matters of independence fees coordination of controls assessment substantive audit work and documentation

Required Qualifications US:

• 8 years of Finance Accounting Treasury Analytics Reporting Experience or equivalent experience demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education

• 4 years of management experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

• Demonstrated knowledge of the accounting reporting and internal controls requirements within a large diversified U.S. financial services institution; strong understanding of current financial and regulatory requirements; experience executing a COSObased Sarbanes Oxley internal control assessment

• Experience dealing directly with banking financial and securities regulators internal and external auditors

• Demonstrated effective verbal written and interpersonal communications with ability to translate complex technical concepts to create understanding and influence decisions

• Ability to successfully develop innovative solutions and drive transformational change; strong analytical and critical thinking skills combined with strategic business focus

• Highly collaborative with proven ability to effectively lead large complex and diverse teams and exceptional track record of delivering results

• An own it attitude; a doer comfortable in a fastpaced complex environment; solves problems collaboratively through open and constructive discussion.

• An intelligent decisive selfconfident and resultsoriented individual who possesses a combination of mental flexibility creativity analytical ability and sound judgment.

• Decisive leader who sets high standards and drives performance; able to motivate inspire engage and develop a financial organization to achieve results.

• Ability to recruit mentor and develop the next generation of financial leadership.

• Strong interpersonal skills superior intellect and an outstanding ability to communicate using these qualities and skills.

• Detail oriented responsive and proactive. Fosters clarity transparency consistency and widespread understanding across the business.

• An energetic efficient and resourceful team player. Takes ownership of work product and delivers within tight deadlines.

• Ability to work and influence successfully within a matrix environment and build trusted relationships with Executive Leadership Team members and the extended business and functional leaders across the company.

• Is of unquestionable personal and professional integrity; can give and take constructive criticism and demands high performance from both him/her and colleagues.

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