Financial Governance Associate - Cross River

Who We Are

Cross River is a highly profitable, fast-growing financial technology company powering the future of financial services. Our comprehensive suite of innovative and scalable embedded payments, cards, and lending products deliver financial services for millions of businesses and consumers around the globe. Cross River is backed by leading investors and serves the world's most essential fintech and technology companies. Together with its partners, Cross River is reshaping global finance and financial inclusion. 

We are on a mission to build the infrastructure that propels access, inclusion, and the democratization of financial services. While our company has tripled in size over the last three years, our strong sense of purpose led Cross River to be named to American Banker's list of Best Places to Work in Fintech for the last 6 years. The reason for this success is simple – our nimble and collaborative family culture lives in every member of our growing team. Together we are at the forefront of technology and innovation, and we invite passionate, collaborative, and motivated high performers to join our expanding team.

What We're Looking For

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the annual FDICIA/SOX 404 financial statement mapping, risk assessment and scoping process.
• Maintain a comprehensive data flow diagram and application interface detail and Flows, that support the internal control environment
• Assist in the maintenance of the IT Risk and Control Matrix for all relevant applications.
• Assist in the maintenance of the critical data elements that are used in the performance of key business controls.
• Assist in the maintenance of the End User Tool library to document the controls in place to help ensure the completeness and accuracy of the data the tool is producing.
• Assist in the coordination of management FDICIA/SOX 404 process controls documentation and review controls to ensure adequate design and identification of key controls for assigned critical processes/accounts.
• Coordinate with business owners to ensure controls are being properly designed and thought through when business or organization changes occur.
• Act as a go-to person for both Financial and IT internal controls within the organization and provide a reliable and insightful resource for implementing Financial and IT controls within a business process
• Coordinate the activities of external audit and technology team collaboration, including walkthroughs, testing and follow up meeting
• PBC coordination and follow up between external audit and technology partners
• Remediation plan development and implementation for any identified testing exceptions
• Assist in ad hoc projects as required.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 2-3 years' experience working within an external audit, internal audit, IT risk, or IT compliance function.
• CPA/CIA/CISA or other professional certification designation is a plus
• Prior experience in the financial services industry preferred
• Prior knowledge executing IT audit, IT internal control, and IT risk consulting engagements, leveraging IT governance and control frameworks such as COBIT, NIST CSF, and NIST 800-53 and proficiency in core requirements and methodologies for SOX internal control programs.
• Understanding of and experience in FDICIA/Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, including internal control scoping, documentation, testing and remediating control deficiencies.
• Understand and experience with analyzing or performing SOC 1 and/or SOC 2 attestation engagements to better understand third party service organization controls reliance.
• The ability to document and write process narratives and recommend to senior management.
• Experience with assessing and understanding IT General controls covering key IT control domains across all layers of the technology stack.
• Experience with assessing and understanding IT Automated controls
• Ability to document control gaps and exceptions based on process understanding and the ability to articulate exceptions to controls owners and senior management.

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Salary Range: $110,000.00 - $140,000.00