Enterprise Reporting Controls & Governance Senior Director The Enterprise Reporting Controls & Governance (ERCG) Group is responsible for Comerica's compliance with the provisions of Section 404 of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ("SOX"), and ultimately, providing certification that our internal control environment is operating effectively. The group is also responsible for other controls over external reports quality assurance programs (e.g. FDICIA, ESG, etc.). The group reports administratively to the Chief Accounting Officer and works closely with key stakeholders across business units, corporate functions, technology, the business risk and controls office and the second and third lines of defense. The ERCG Senior Director is responsible for providing executive leadership to the various quality assurance programs, primarily the SOX program office, including serving as the central point of contact for executive management and external auditor. The ERCG Senior Director will focus on managing the ERCG Group's strategy and approach to Comerica's technology ecosystem compliance with SOX, including infrastructure risk assessment and application scoping, evaluation of system development lifecycle controls for new product developments and system conversions, and testing of IT general controls. The ERCG Senior Director also provides leadership to the ERCG Group for the core business operations of Comerica's SOX program, including business process scoping and risk assessment, control testing documentation and issues evaluation and conclusion. Position Responsibilities Strategy and Execution * Provide executive leadership in the strategic direction of the group, including SOX program methodology, policies, templates, and procedures and provide recommendations for changes. * Manage change / continuous improvement initiatives to ensure efficiency and maintenance of an optimized control environment, and present identifiable benefits for controls and process improvements to leadership. * Acquire a comprehensive understanding of the end-to-end financial and technology landscape and provide expertise to SOX readiness activities, including serving as a review gate or Steering Committee Member on key strategic projects, assessing and providing on future state controls design, and pre-go-live validation. * Ensure effective transfer of knowledge of project developments and changes to SOX processes and controls to ERCG team and audit stakeholders. * Develop and manage the budget for the execution of programs under the purview of ERCG, including setting strategy and manage the use of external co-source partners to ensure the program is executed effectively and efficiently. Executive and External Engagement * Communicate SOX progress, findings, recommendations for governance, remediation progress and policies to the Chief Accounting Officer, the Chief Financial Officer as well as other members of senior and executive leadership. * Communicate SOX progress, findings, recommendations for governance, remediation progress and policies to committees of the Board and regulators (as needed). * Lead coordination with Internal and External audit groups to facilitate reliance testing strategies of audit stakeholders. Technology Controls Leadership and Stakeholder Collaboration * Serves as a senior technology SOX controls leader, liaising with risk and control owners and their teams as well as business leaders to provide proactive advice and input on key technology and application control decisions. * Provide oversight and management to the testing of technology controls, including logical access, change management and other IT general controls. * Provide guidance to the ERCG team, BRCO team and technology control owners on appropriately assessing risks to scope testing for application and interface controls, including pertinent job scheduling and error handling controls to supplement business processes effective risk management. * Provides credible challenge to technology leaders and robust oversight to continuous monitoring plans and risk and control assessments. Human Capital Development * Responsible for the development and delivery of pertinent training to the technology control owners to ensure a thorough understanding of the SOX program, policies and procedures, and the impact of financial reporting controls to the organization. * Ensures ERCG group team members are accountable, enabling them to clearly articulate and manage the risk profile of a process, demonstrating active, robust financial statement risk management to key stakeholders and senior business leaders. * Hold managers accountable for the development of their teams. * Proactively engage in team development goals, including requiring more timely robust verbal feedback to ensure team members are meeting expectations of their professional roles and responsibilities. Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled