alex souder

Charlotte, NC based photography business specializing in Engagement, Wedding, Lifestyle, Landscape and Real Estate photography.

Compiled information for, and efficiently completed complex tax returns for small businesses, trusts, and high net worth individuals.

* Routed and processed invoices and reconciled statements for six of the Vail Resorts. * Assisted with inventory audits and systems adjustments.

Worked cooperatively with an audit team to complete testing and documentation in accordance with WFAS methodology.

Developed and implemented a quality assurance program for Enterprise Functions Testing & Validation. Perform ongoing QA reviews, identify trends, and develop training focused on testing methodology and documentation.

* Served as Finance and Human Resources Intern for CAFB, a corporation distributing more than 17 million pounds of food and covering 19,064 square miles of Central Texas. * o Drove strategic initiative to broaden the scope of active donor base. Project included: *  Identifying and creating introductory relationships with financial advisors. *  Educating advisors face-to-face on CAFB initiatives and opportunities to advise their clients about planned giving to the CAFB.

* Assisted in the development and execution of risk based audit engagements within Wholesale lines of business, ensuring timely execution of the annual audit plan. * Worked collaboratively with diverse working groups to assess line of business risks and the effectiveness of mitigating controls. * Planned and executed a Wholesale-wide horizontal audit covering fraud risk management, as well as provided fraud risk management training to the WFAS wholesale team.

Wells Fargo Securities delivers a comprehensive set of capital markets products and services to customers, including originating and distributing public debt and equity, hedging interest rates, commodity and equity risks, advising on mergers and acquisitions, and originating structured lending facilities and municipal bonds. The institutional broker dealer is comprised of more than 4000 team members in 40+ offices across the United States, Europe and Asia.Wells Fargo Securities is the trade name for the capital markets and investment banking services of Wells Fargo & Company and its subsidiaries, including Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, a member of FINRA, NYSE, NFA and SIPC, Wells Fargo Institutional Securities, LLC, a member of FINRA and SIPC, and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

* Responsible for designing and performing vertical and horizontal risk and control assurance projects within the Wholesale lines of business, ensuring timely execution of the annual audit plan. * Skilled in learning new business processes and systems quickly in order to effectively understand new projects approximately every 6-8 weeks. * Actively build relationships with line of business team members by demonstrating an understanding of the business and implementing effective relationship management. * Consults with audit and line of business management on potential control enhancements. * Documents project management results to effectively communicate findings to senior management. * Analyzed expense data for all Wholesale banking team members, identified key spend trends, and produced semi-annual memos to senior leadership to track the management and oversight of Wholesale expense management standards.

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