As a Quality Assurance – Vice President within the External Financial Reporting Quality Assurance team, you will participate in quality assurance reviews, which are aimed at mitigating the risk of external reporting errors through additional independent review & validation.
Job responsibilities
- Conducting risk assessments to prioritize areas requiring detailed reviews
- Leading and participating in QA reviews from end to end, including developing testing strategies, executing testing, supervising other team members, and analyzing results
- Communicating findings to management and help design action plans to facilitate appropriate resolution
- Developing, implementing and executing testing on critical data elements relied on for external reporting
- Leading, mentoring and motivating a team of QA testers and leads; this includes setting goals and providing feedback to the team members across locations
- Providing additional oversight to QA teams to drive consistent practices and help create a cohesive QA center of excellence
- Participating in relevant governance forums and meeting regularly with Audit and Finance Control partners
- Syndicating key messages to senior audiences
- Staying current with evolving industry and regulatory changes, analyzing their impact to business objectives, processes, and compliance
- Collaborating with corporate finance, line of business controller teams, risk and operations areas
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Minimum 8 years related experience within External Audit, Internal Audit or External Financial Reporting
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP standards
- Strong analytical skills through experience with data analytics or similar processes
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to quickly understand complex subject matter and demonstrate critical thinking
- Ability to challenge the status quo while maintaining relationships
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence LOB partners
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Knowledge of US Financial Regulatory reports such as FR Y-9C, FR Y-14Q, FFIEC 031 and related products, a plus