Manager, Internal Controls

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About the team

The Internal Controls team plays a critical role in adhering to controls frameworks and creating space for risk mitigation and oversight. We want to ensure that Wealthsimple maintains a secure operational environment by implementing, monitoring and testing controls designed to safeguard assets, keep our reporting accurate, and make our processes more efficient.

About the role

We are looking to expand our team with 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.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Internal Controls, the successful candidate will build and shape internal controls around the processes we already have and build the control framework for new products as we launch them. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role — you'll own the control framework and documentation, direct testing, and work with the control owners across Finance, Operations and Engineering who run the controls, so that they are designed, implemented and operating effectively.

What you’ll do

• 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 for:

Financial reporting audits for all entities;

• SOC 1 audits;

• Other audits requiring control work as they arise;

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

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

Skills you bring

• 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 tech...