Assistant Manager, Internal Controls over Financial Reporting

To assist in the management of a branch of the Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) team and ensure its operation is consistent with the ICFR effort to maintain and evolve a comprehensive and Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) compatible control environment. Assist in the leadership of a team of audit specialists, control experts, and technology subject matter experts to research and establish best practices and build an effective ICFR framework. Manage team members during preparation for integrated audits as well as managing those teams during the creation of audit responses. Work strategically with leaders across the credit union to deploy preventative, detective, and corrective controls that mitigate the risk of financial misstatement by virtue of control-centric processes and technology. Assist in leading initiatives related to ICFR with the objective of producing evidence of operational and design effectiveness.  To analyze Corporate Accounting business needs to develop and implement internal control solutions that leverage systems and processes with a broad degree of latitude. 

• Manage multiple aspects of the Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) governance program
• Manage multi-disciplinary control initiatives to evaluate controls and ultimately transform any control gaps into mature control environments 
• Assist in managing the review of emerging control guidance and technologies and recommend solutions
• Assist in managing activities related to the COSO Framework’s Entity, Risk, Activity, Information/Communication, and Monitoring levels of control and aligns related controls with executive-level strategies (e.g., Credit Policy and Analytics, Financial Risk Management, etc.)
• Assist in the development of ICFR vision for the transition toward control-based audits and ensure continued support for substantive audits when necessary 
• Manage activities that advance ICFR and business use of Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) software that establishes workflow around control team activity, audit deliverable creation/acquisition, and executive management approval processes 
• Assist in leading feasibility initiatives designed to determine the applicability of technology to existing control practices (e.g., cognitive technologies for meta-controls, 
• Robotics Process Automation (RPA), etc.) 
• Identify business control requirements (e.g. needs, objectives, functions, features, input and output)
• Develop, recommend and document adjustments to workflows to enhance control processes  
• Lead efforts to operationalize General Ledger technologies (e.g., Accounting Rules Engines [ARE], Data Integration [DI], and Data Storage Hubs[ DSH], etc.) and their associated impact on accounting personnel using stakeholder and pain point analyses. Evaluate operational controls efficiency and effectiveness. 
• Collaborate with leadership on various governance initiatives (e.g., controls governance, data governance, change management governance etc.) as they relate to management’s valuation, presentation and disclosure, rights and obligations, existence, and completeness assertions
• Contribute to various steering committees and panels that set direction for the purpose of evangelizing a SOX compatible mindset that seeks to increase the consideration of controls as a forethought and reduce those instances when controls are considered as an afterthought
• Participate in ongoing inter-departmental Controls Committee meetings to facilitate comprehensive and enterprise-wide leadership participation in the preparation for financial statement and Information Technology General Computer (ITGC) audits 
• Assist in leading multi-disciplinary control initiatives at the right level of detail and scope to assess the effectiveness of business and technological controls and ultimately transform any control gaps into mature control environments
• Analyze controls information, requirements, data, processes, control specific practices, control standards and metrics/statistics  
• Supervise efforts that assess the operational performance of existing controls and devise remediation strategies that align control performance with the appropriate risk mitigation methodology
• Participate in the review of existing control policies, process narratives, and process models to develop optimization strategies and the associated current state, future state, and gap analysis planning artifacts 
• Collaborate with key partners in development and delivery of tested, approved control solutions  
• Present control conclusions and recommendations / alternatives to management, coordinating integration of solutions with existing processes and applications  
• Build and maintain partnerships with external and internal auditors to negotiate audit objectives and audit scope based upon previou