About the Role
The Manager - IT Financial Risk Management will be focused on coordinating and building a world class IT risk management program for Uber’s finance function, working with the other arms of the Finance Risk Management team to develop an integrated risk and controls program to respond to existing and emerging risks.
The role will work closely with internal and external stakeholders, interacting on a day to day basis with Uber’s Product, Engineering and Security team to rationalize and automate Uber’s financial controls environment. The successful applicant will have demonstrated IT systems processes and IT internal controls experience related to financial applications.
Responsibilities:
Build and maintain relationships across Engineering, Product, Operations, Internal Audit, external audit and other external stakeholders to drive effective financial risk management.
Work with Product, Engineering and Security team to improve efficiency of control environments through implementation of automation and process improvement
Bridge gaps between IT controls and business controls, including ITGCs. Work with Internal Audit to ensure complete control environment is managed
Work with emerging business lines to understand risk profile and ensure an appropriate control environment is established
Plan, coordinate, manage milestones and ensure projects are on track for timely completion. I.e. planning, budgeting, tracking activities such as; narrative and flowchart development, risk assessments, control rationalization, management controls testing and process improvement initiatives
Provide control related support and training for the team to help mitigate financial risk through fostering an effective controls environment.
Implement new processes and controls in response to changes to the business environment, such as; new product introduction, changes in accounting standards, internal process changes or reorganization.
What You'll Need:
Bachelor's degree (Information Systems focused and/or Accounting, Finance or Economics preferred)
Experience in overseeing 3+ person project teams
Minimum of 2 years of IT audit (internal or external), controls, IT, compliance or risk management experience
Minimum of 5 years on process design/redesign and optimization, Financial System implementation such as Oracle, SAP or in-house solutions
Experience with Data architecture, different database technologies and writing queries to pull data (MySql, Hive, Oracle, Kafka, Cassandra, Hadoop and other streaming technologies)
Experience with assessing change management/software development lifecycle risks (code review, release management etc) and implementing remedies
Strong organization skills with an ability to plan and manage multiple tasks with timely completion
Ability to analyze complex processes to identify potential financial, operational, systems and compliance risks across major finance cycles
Ability to effectively communicate in written and verbal form across a wide array of internal and external stakeholders, including senior management.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects concurrently, including managing a team.
Ability to thrive in environments of uncertainty
Preferred:
Process management experience, including process redesign and optimization
Experience with information technology general controls and automated business process controls and concepts
Experience with homegrown applications in a microservices/dev-ops environment
Development experience in at least one object-oriented language (Go, Python, Java, etc.)
