Wells Fargo is seeking a Financial Accounting Manager
In this role, you will:
- Manage a team of individual contributors supporting significantly diverse and complex functional areas related to financial accounting
- Manage directly or through a team, accounting activities for one or more groups within a line of business
- Direct completion of complex accounting tasks pertaining to accounts, statements, systems and records
- Set standards for monitoring the data provided and for preparation and review of financial statements and other documentation
- Create and implement controls to ensure accuracy of data
- Maintain advanced knowledge of current accounting practices and regulatory requirements
- Enforce adherence to internal and external accounting principles and policies
- Develop methodologies and implement changes for internal accounting systems
- Plan, design and direct the production of financial and regulatory reports
- Manage response and resolution to audit inquiries
- Provide technical interpretation on various matters and a key change agent in building and adopting best practices within the functional area
- Lead implementation of complex projects or initiatives impacting one or more lines of business
- Understand and ensure compliance and risk management requirements are met and work with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
- Provide strategic consultation to more experienced leadership
- Interact with external agencies, regulatory bodies or industry forums
- Manage a team of individual contributors, cross-functional or virtual teams
- Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Enterprise Finance
- Mentor and guide talent development of direct reports and assist in hiring talent
- 5+ 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
- 2+ years of leadership experience
- Qualified CA/CFA/ICWA/MBA-Finance with Relevant years of experience in with a focus on accounting, financial/regulatory reporting and controls, preferably with experience in a financial services environment
- Strong technical background and proficiency with systems and spreadsheet skills including various Microsoft products like Word, Excel, Access, Visio etc.
- Strong analytic, accounting and problem solving skills
- A self-starter with excellent time and project management skills that can identify, plan, prioritize and deliver various work streams against deadlines
- Proven ability to work independently and to identify and resolve issues by exercising professional judgement
- Attention to detail, alongside ability to see the 'big picture'
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal, written)
- Experience working with core financial and/or regulatory platforms (Oracle, SAP, Axiom, FRS OneSumX)
- Experience with digitization tools like Alteryx, Wdesk, Tableau, MS Teams etc.
- Experience with Agile project delivery methodology
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment and across all organizational levels, where flexibility, collaboration, and adaptability are important
- Familiarity with JIRA & Confluence
- Product knowledge (Derivatives, Loans, Secured Lending, Cash products)
- Ensuring complete and timely capture of new/amended requirements arising from internal or external changes (reporting rule changes, new business activity etc) ;
- Developing efficient and effective solutions in partnership with key stakeholders (Controller reporting teams, technology etc), and implementing into production environments;
- Driving enhancement (reduced manual intervention, improved run times, enhanced controls) of existing processes and infrastructure,
- Lead the Financial and Regulatory Change team based in Chennai, as a part of the wider International Controller Change team:
- Oversight of the team's book of work, resource allocation and delivery status in conjunction with the regional change leads
- Support development of the team through identification of skills gaps and opportunities for upskilling
- Act as a member of the International Controller Change management structure, representing the India based team
- Support and drive the planning, testing, implementation and management of book of work items which affect the Regulatory & Financial Reporting Infrastructure - scope of the role will cover both 'Run the Bank' maintenance activity, as well as larger scale strategic deliverables falling under the 'Change the Bank' banner
- Perform impact analysis on book of work items and partner with colleagues in Project Management, Technology, Controllers and various other teams to help map regulatory and financial requirements to documented specifications and help support successful implementations of automated reporting solutions through iterative delivery (Agile)
- Employ analytical, accounting and data mining skills to help map key data elements from multiple systems of records ultimately to specific regulatory reports.
- Review business requirements for compliance against relevant regulation and substantive testing of those requirements to ensure implementation is correct
- Focus on control environment and monitoring / driving process efficiency, including challenge of operating model
- Documentation of user stories and participation in Agile ceremonies
- Support of release management processes and any post production issues
- Creation of best in class documentation for Release Management
- Identify and champion opportunities for efficiencies and improvement through process re-engineering and use of 'Next Gen' digital tools
- Support maintenance of an effective system of internal control over the change portfolio through effective gathering and sharing of information (new work items, delivery status etc) with key internal stakeholders
16 Apr 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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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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