# Manager, Internal Controls

**Company**: Wealthsimple
**Location**: Remote (Canada)
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: CA$116K - CA$145K
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are looking for a Manager, Internal Controls to help build and run our internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) program. This role will be instrumental in ensuring Wealthsimple meets its regulatory obligations while building a scalable compliance function.

**Responsibilities**

- Be a strong voice within the Finance team and across Wealthsimple by proactively shaping effective and efficient controls around existing processes as well as designing an effective control framework for new products;

- Work alongside our external advisors to build out the ICFR program, then own the process narratives, RCMs, flowcharts, and test procedures and keep them current;

- Plan and direct walkthroughs and testing against the annual ICFR plan, whether testing is done in-house or by a co-source firm, and support control owners as they remediate deficiencies;

- Serve as the primary point of contact for external auditors, coordinating evidence requests, walkthroughs, and finding remediation. Coordinate testing activities to ensure deadlines are met with high-quality outputs;

- Proactively work with internal stakeholders to determine the impact of business decisions on the financial processes, operations, and engineering;

- Work with technology to develop best-in-class controls documentation and solutions, including AI-enabled tooling.

**Requirements**

- 5+ years in internal controls or audit, with hands-on ICFR experience under SOX or CSOX, working knowledge of COSO 2013, and a CPA designation or equivalent;

- Experience working in SOX or CSOX control environment in a public company;

- Hands-on experience using technology , including AI tools , to document, test, or automate controls.

**Nice to Have**

- Experience building an ICFR program, or substantially expanding one;

- Experience in financial services, ideally brokerage, banking, or payments;

- Experience supporting SOC 1 Type 2 audit;

- Experience working with Optro (formerly AuditBoard);

- Exposure to a high-growth fintech or technology company.

**Who You Are**

- You bring people along , you can explain why a strong control environment matters and build/promote awareness across the organization;

- You’re passionate about technology, specifically fintech;

- You’re naturally curious: if something seems off, you want to figure out what’s going on;

- You communicate clearly and are able to articulate complex ideas succinctly and convincingly;

- You're detail-oriented and rigorous, you pay close attention to details and are able to thoroughly review your own work and others.

**Benefits**

- Top-tier health benefits and life insurance;

- Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business;

- 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year;

- 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year;

- Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS.

## Skills

### Required
- CPA
- COSO 2013
- SOX
- CSOX
- AI tools

### Nice to have
- financial services
- brokerage
- banking
- payments
- SOC 1 Type 2 audit
- Optro

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