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Herndon, Va, Us

Virginia, United States

San Jose, Ca

o Member of the One Firm Risk Organization, working alongside other enabler teams to protect the firm from reputational, brand, and independence risko Developed the Public Communications CoE, providing consultation and review of higher risk public communications across the US and Mexico firms to help mitigate risk and protect the firmo Led risk management workstream for the replatforming of the CoE document review evaluation and repository tool including requirements documentation and UAT

Ny, Ny And San Jose, Ca

Primary Reviewer for Advisory Risk & Quality Marketing teamo Developed and delivered multiple Risk Management training sessions with up to 150 attendees (including firm partners), resulting in significant process improvements, 55% reduction in risk reviews, and furthering self-service capabilities of key business stakeholderso Led risk management workstream for the buildout of a go-to-market offering, including identifying and quantifying risk areas, and defining the mitigation strategyo Drove cross functional collaboration between firm leadership, Legal, Branding, Marketing/PR, Public Policy, and IT groups to define critical firm risk policies and ensure the review of external publications met key timelineso Led the detailed review of Advisory’s high risk external publications, mitigating PwC’s overall risk exposure by ensuring appropriate firm viewpoints and maintaining compliance with both client confidentiality and auditor independence policiesManaged Foreign Asset Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) support for a large multinational financial services corporationo Successfully helped client create and implement a tool that enabled them to achieve timely and accurate IRS complianceo Led initiative of translating complex FATCA regulations with tax subject matter experts and outside law firm, defining requirements, and creating a Functional Requirements Document and Business Requirement Document used by the client to create FATCA technology toolo Developed extensive system requirements documentation and testing plans for a reporting platform that enabled timely and accurate IRS FATCA compliance, within the aggressive deadline imposed by the regulatoro Led the analysis of Foreign Financial Institution registrations, and communicated directly with the IRS to support the determination of capacity requirements for their new online registry portal

New York, New York

Sr. Associate: o Performed Cost Basis Reporting (CBR) compliance support for a large multinational financial services corporation o Helped with the development of Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) Risk Management tool for a large financial services instituteAssociate: o Performed Computer Assisted Auditing Techniques for Journal Entry, Accounts Receivable and Payable testing o Led Technical audits evaluating Unix commands, configurations, and other technical evidence