About this role:
About Audit Practices
Universe and Technology Solutions - Audit Universe, AE Risk Assessments, Change Management Risk Management, AMS, SharePoint, Shared Drives, Data Management, and other technology
Innovation - Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Advanced Analytics, Automation, Models, Audit Reporting, LOB Innovation, Operational Innovation
Professional Practices - Plan & Issue Management, Practices, Audit Policy Library, oversight of Audit's issue management and remediation activities, Validation Review Committee
Employee Operations - Employee Experience, and Resource Acquisition, Management, & Reporting
Quality Assurance (QA) - Assess and drive continuous improvement in the quality of Audit execution, QA reviews, aggregation of QA issues, QA reporting, validation of corrective actions, credible challenge, continuous improvement
In this role, you will:
- Perform audit testing components of assigned audits within multiple segments of the Audit Plan
- Plan and execute independent audit testing and ensure that they are timely and accurate
- Identify and assess key risks and controls
- Execute and document work in accordance with Wells Fargo Audit Services policy
- Identify and develop compensating controls that mitigate audit findings and make recommendations to management
- Inform manager of situational issues that might compromise objectivity or independence
- Design and execute tests to verify control effectiveness
- Document work papers according to the standards of the Internal Audit policy and guidance
- Demonstrate professional skepticism while performing major components of audits
- Lead smaller scale audits or projects
- Develop ways to improve existing audit practices
- Develop effective test plans for engagements as assigned with limited guidance
- Participate in projects as directed
- Develop business partnerships within Internal Audit and with teams companywide through professional communication and clear audit deliverables
Required Qualifications:
- 4+ years of Audit, Risk experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Desired Qualifications:
- A Bachelor, or Masters’ degree in analytics, engineering
- Experience with Alteryx, SQL or SAS programming including writing code to automate solutions of medium to high technical complexity
- Experience in developing and maintaining advanced analytic solutions from beginning to end, using visualizations to share data insights with stakeholders, primarily using Power BI, Tableau
- Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
- Experience performing complex data analysis and providing concise insights with storytelling
- Ability to analyze and interpret data, trends and present findings and actionable recommendations to business leaders
- Experience at a financial institution or Big 4 Accounting firm
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to develop partnerships and collaborate with other business and functional area
- Ability to obtain or currently hold one or more of the following certifications: SAS Certified, Alteryx Core or Advanced Certified, Tableau Certified
- Any Audit certification like CFE, CIA, CISA, CPA, CAMS, or CRCM will be a plus
- Strong organizational, multitasking, and prioritizing skills
- Ability to work effectively in a distributed team environment and across all organizational levels, where flexibility, collaboration, and adaptability are important
- Ability to execute in a fast paced, high demand, environment while balancing multiple priorities
- Outstanding problem solving with ability to turn findings into strategic imperatives
- Experience in data processing, database programming, and/or data analytics
- Knowledge and understanding of audit methodologies, processes is desirable
- Experience in data warehouses and system of records
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time, if required
- Working from office for at least 3 days per week or more as per directions from time to time
Job Expectations:
- Lead business partner and audit team meetings for subject areas.
- Demonstrate technical proficiency in more than one data analytics tool to identify trends and anomalies related to processes, risks and controls.
- Navigate within large complex technology environments to locate, validate, extract, and format data for data analysis testing.
- Execute audit testing in line with Internal Audit policy, procedures, guidelines and IIA standards.
- Demonstrate advanced critical thinking skills and the ability to understand the alignment of data analytics to business processes, risks and controls and the impacts to the business.
- Train team members how to identify risks and apply data analytics to verify the risks are fully mitigated.
- Effectively document the analysis in accordance with audit policy.
- Train and mentor audit teams in the use of data analysis and data analysis tools.
- Partner with assigned audit teams to build expertise in the use of data analysis within the internal audit function.
4 Apr 2025
Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.