Sr Financial Accountant

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Financial Accountant

In this role, you will:

• Act as lead Consultant for financial accounting related matters for lines of business and other control functions
• Provide technical expertise regarding accounting issues, regulatory information and research
• Provide technical assistance on major transactions and product development
• Provide data for preparing and reviewing financial and regulatory reports
• Communicate practices and procedures for proper financial control
• Articulate the impact of policy changes to management within business group or enterprise
• Perform ongoing financial control functions in accordance with the company's internal controls policies
• Apply extensive specialized knowledge and act as internal consultant
• Lead implementation of complex projects and initiatives impacting one or more lines of business
• Identify compliance and risk management requirements for supported area and may support implementation of key risk initiatives
• Communicate and provide consultation regularly with more experienced stakeholders throughout the enterprise

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ 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

Desired Qualifications:

• CPA/CA or Bachelors/MBA in Finance, Accounting, or Business
• Understanding of accounting concepts
• Reconciliation experience must with analytical and judgement in resolving issues
• People management responsibilities
• Experience supporting securities operations in a controls or reconciliation environment a plus.
• Experience and proficiency with automated recon tools.
• Advanced MS Excel skills, i.e. macros, pivot tables, Vlookups, etc.
• Ability to work independently on assigned accounts, but work collectively as a team to meet the needs that arise from day to day workflow.
• Strong and effective communication and problem solving skills

Job Expectations:

Responsible to ensure seamless delivery of reconciliation and reporting activities related to WFS/FX Operations and Securities Operations & Accounting internal accounts and positions.

Ensure Daily reconciliations are performed for: detail accounts (such as cash & suspense) at a transaction level, reconciliation of subsystem to GL accounts at a balance level, reconciliation of custodial/collateral positions, in addition to other back office system controls

• Identification of breaks within reconciliations.
• Ensuring proper assignment of breaks and working with those parties to ensure resolution.
• Review of peer reconciliations as needed.
• Assistance with monthly reporting of aging schedules and aged breaks.
• Effectively communicate with multiple business partners, including upstream data providers, accounting/operations colleagues, and/or downstream customers of the recons.
• Properly escalate issues identified as potential risks.
• Provide process improvement ideas and solutions to reduce non value-added work, and further auto manually intensive processes

• Expectations:

• Strong exposure towards systems & reconciliation tools - Intellimatch, Snapshot, TLM along with techno functional skills in automation tools - Alteryx, Power BI etc.
• Manages function or has broad organizational influences and/or control/risk accountability
• Demonstrates professionalism and subject matter expertise in technical knowledge in their field, routinely displays and employs high level of knowledge of broader function/ business to solve problems
• Continuously monitors the functions, identifies the areas that can be simplified/ improved/ automated with adequate internal controls.
• Cross training across geography within the function to ensure team has end to end knowledge on the process and to address key man risk/ BCP.
• Maintain and observe the performance of your team related to individual, team, organizational, and company-wide goals.
• Ensure Governance around the responsible functions:
  • Review the key performance indicators (KPIs) for the processes/ functions.
  • adequacy of process documentation and review of internal controls and compliance
  • Other governance activities as required

Posting End Date: 

26 Jul 2026

*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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