Financial Reporting Risk Assessment and Controls #230696

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We Offer Credit Suisse Group AG has been acquired by UBS Group AG. Credit Suisse continues its business activities as a subsidiary company of UBS Group AG, including selective hiring for experienced professionals.
UBS is the world’s largest and only truly global wealth manager. We operate through four business divisions: Global Wealth Management, Personal & Corporate Banking, Asset Management, and the Investment Bank. Our global reach and the breadth of our expertise set us apart from our competitors.
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This role is important for continued SEC compliance with SOX 404 rules and to the remediation of an existing SOX material weakness relating to COSO Principle 7 Risk Assessment. This role will interact frequently with stakeholders across seniority levels (including Directors) and requires an un-derstanding of SEC rules, PCAOB audit standards, Big 4 methodology, and an understanding of processes, controls, and issues within a complex multinational banking organization. The role re-quires the ability to understand the assessment and assignment of risk by financial statement line item. The role requires experience performing and documenting deep dive activities on complex and federated processes and requires good communications skills to coordinate and execute a defined book-of-work. The role requires experience assessing processes and controls to determine whether control objectives are achieved, identifying areas for process and/or control improvement, identifying control deficiencies, and understanding remediation actions. This role requires experience as-sessing identified control deficiencies in accordance with SEC rules. This role also requires the abil-ity to communicated deep dive findings to management.
Your future colleagues
You will be based in Zurich, London or Singapore and will be part of the Financial Reporting Risk Assessment and Controls Team. This team has the mandate to identify risk, prioritize the book-of-work, perform deep dive activities, review and track issues, and input into the issue resolution pro-cess, which includes the severity assessment and remediation processes.
The hiring manager for this role is based in Zurich. The role will be focused on financial reporting and will require interaction with colleagues from across the Bank, including those in Zurich, New York, Raleigh, London, Pune, and Singapore.
The Financial Reporting Risk Assessment and Controls Team is part of the Credit Suisse CFO Risk and Control Office.  

Remote Working? N/A - pending TWWW agreement 
You Offer 

• The following experiences will make you a great candidate for this role:
• Degree in accounting and/or finance.
• Certified Public Accountant or Chartered Accountant.
• 5 years of relevant controls experience – achieved either at the Big 4 (on multinational integrated audit engagements, which are PCAOB compliant) or at a multinational bank (within SOX 404 compliance, Group Finance, Product Control, Internal Audit, etc.).
• Understanding of COSO components, principles and points of focus, SEC / SOX 404 rules, PCAOB audit standards and typical Big 4 audit methodology.
• Experience at an equivalent grade level working within an international team.
• Experience drafting materials for inclusion in senior management reporting.
• Understanding of how to assess and identify financial reporting risk, perform audit and/or deep dive activities in accordance with a defined book-of-work, identify and communi-cate process and/or control improvements, identify and assess control deficiencies, and analyze the appropriateness of remediation actions.
• Communicate the status of work to more senior personnel within the team and various stakeholders across the 3 Lines of Defense.
  Understand accounting – International Financial Reporting Standards.
• Understand financial reporting control requirements – both theoretical and practical.
• Experience in financial services and understand how a multinational bank operates – in-cluding processes and controls relating to operations, finance, and product control.
• Experience working on an international team and interacting with colleagues both locally and overseas.
• Articulate and effectively communicate with partners at different seniority levels.
• Organized, analytical, and will meet strict reporting deadlines.
• Result oriented, dedicated, hardworking, proactive, flexible, change-focused, flexible, and will consistently deliver to a high quality on time when under pressure.
• Able and willing to proactively drive the implementation of controls and enact change to continuously improve the control environment.
• Dedication to fostering an inclusive culture and value diverse perspectives.

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