Financial Accountant

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong Years of Finance, Accounting, Analytics, Financial Reporting, Accounting Reporting or Risk Reporting experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• Experience in financial reconciliation, preferably in capital markets or banking operations. Proficiency in IntelliMatch and DART platforms for automated reconciliation.

• Strong understanding of system-to-system reconciliation logic and SOR frameworks.
• Maintain audit trails and documentation for all reconciliation activities.
• Collaborate with IT and operations teams to enhance reconciliation logic and system integrations.
• Monitor feeds from systems like Swift, Hogan, Oracle, and GL to ensure timely and accurate data ingestion.
• Support ad-hoc requests and ticket-based assignments for netting, matching, and department tagging in Intellimatch and DART.

Job Expectations:

• Provide support for financial accounting related matters for lines of business and control functions
• Review basic activities managers and exercise independent judgment while developing understanding of financial control functions in accordance with the company’s internal control policies
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
• Perform daily, weekly, and monthly reconciliations of cash and position data across internal systems and external custodians.
• Utilize Intellimatch and DART platforms to automate and validate reconciliation workflows.
• Investigate and resolve reconciliation breaks by coordinating with relevant departments (e.g., Cash Management, Income, Alternative Investments).
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of data by comparing balances between SORs.
• Assist CMAO team members in project coordination and tasks to support CMAO project initiatives;
• Act as an advocate with the third party vendor relationship with issue management and new product development. Participate and/or lead the business-side efforts in software applications development work.
• Establish strong relationships with various functions and businesses throughout Wells Fargo and CMAO
• Research and collect data from a variety of sources; compiles data from multiple sources, which may include data mining, compile and analyze results and summarizing reporting.
• Coordinate and consolidate the production of monthly, quarterly, and annual performance reports for more experienced management.
• Perform business/functional analysis to help define solution options and recommendations, including pros/cons and rationale for recommendations to a variety of audiences from peers to senior leaders.
• Actively participate in unit, functional and user-acceptance testing project phases
• Exercise independent judgment while developing expertise in policy governance, risk projects, and regulatory requests.Provide support for financial accounting related matters for lines of business and control functions
• Review basic activities associated with maintaining ledger accounts, financial statements and regulatory reports
• Gather financial data for financial and regulatory reports
• Review data from the general ledger, unit reports and various financial systems to ensure accuracy
• Receive direction from managers and exercise independent judgment while developing understanding of financial control functions in accordance with the company’s internal control policies
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Posting End Date: 

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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