Senior Audit Manager - Financial Regulatory Reporting

Job Description :

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Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Job Description :

The Senior Audit Manager role is responsible for providing independent and objective assurance to improve the organization's operations and compliance with key regulations by evaluating the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes.

This role will oversee a team of auditors in performing independent testing of high profile, enterprise-wide focus areas and activities across the CFO - U.

S. Regulatory Reporting organization, which includes governance, interpretation of report instructions, production and submission of OCC / FRB / FDIC U.

S. regulatory reports (e.g.FR Y-14,FR Y-9C,FFIEC 009, FR Y-15, FFIEC 031), and substantive end-to-end testing of data from the reports through data transformations to data capture.

The role also has a significant focus on leading testing around data capture and data usage controls.

Responsibilities :

Key Responsibilities :

• Performs ongoing risk assessments to identify key risks impacting regulatory reports and contributes to the building and maintaining the audit plan to mitigate those risks
• Develops and enhances the overall multi-year strategy for auditing U.S. regulatory reports and coverage of the CFO Attestation for the FR Y-14 reports
• Performs scoping for individual regulatory report audits by risk assessing individual sub-schedules, line items, and attributes;

and designing a comprehensive audit approach to execute controls testing and substantive end-to-end testing from the report to data capture

• Leads the execution of multiple regulatory reporting audits, and ensures that audit reports address key risks, are impactful, insightful, timely, error free, and concise
• Reviews workpapers and drafts audit reports
• Monitors the progress of regulatory and internal audit issue validation
• Manages a POD of associates or audit teams
• Stays abreast of regulatory developments, emerging risks, and report / instruction changes; contributes to calibration of the plan
• Provides technical training to the team on regulatory reporting subject matter

Skills :

• Strong critical thinking and communication skills
• Very organized with attention to detail
• Ability to learn complex subject matter, understand regulatory requirements, and build testing programs to ensure compliance and mitigate risks
• Proven track record of executing multiple projects and delivering high quality work to meet tight deadlines
• Strong interpersonal skills and effective communicator, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to lead, coach, and mentor a POD of junior team members and influence their careers
• Ability to build a strong rapport with line of business management and provide impact without impairing independence
• Ability to draft high quality audit reports and communicate issues to line of business management
• Strong interpersonal skills and effective communicator, both orally and in writing.

Required Qualifications

• Greater than 10 years' experience in a related role
• BA / BS or equivalent work experience
• Specific subject matter expertise in audit and / or the financial services industry
• Ability to manage audit projects within a risk based audit methodology and provide coaching and training to junior associates within the team
• Experience leading and developing teammates
• Experience engaging in executive level discussions with senior management that is impactful
• Solid understanding of internal audit processes and methodology requirements
• Sound organizational, analytical, oral and written communication skills
• Self-starter, desire to learn able to teach others, positive attitude, exhibits flexibility
• Ability to work in a very detailed manner and manage multiple projects effectively.

Desired Qualifications

• CPA, CIA, CISA or similar
• Recommended subject matter expertise in U.S. regulatory reporting (e.g. Y-14, Y-9C, 009, Y-15, 031), broker dealer reporting or SEC financial reporting (10K / 10Q)
• Experiencing in performing end-to-end substantive testing of data elements and transactions from financial statements or regulatory reports to data capture / source documentation
• Experiencing in evaluating the design effectiveness of internal controls across the data lifecycle of a large Corporation that includeds providing effective challenge to management, and executing operating effectiveness testing of data capture, data transport, and entity-level controls
• Big 4 background a plus, including in external audit or consulting
• Experience in evaluating workflows / systems / data mining
• Experience with production of U.S. Regulatory Reports

Shift :

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week :