Cheryl Cashion
Coppell,Texas
Summary
Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Manager, Business Controls & Risk Management
Santander Consumer USA
02.2021 - 04.2024
- Responsible for directing and overseeing the risk self-assessment program for the Accounting, Corporate Development, Treasury and VMO
- Conducting risk assessment to determine key areas for each new IT enhancement
- Conducting walkthroughs to identify the risks and controls for each process and performing on-going reviews based on changes in the environment
- Reviewing design and performance assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of the controls
- Manage remediation efforts for issues identified
- This includes root cause analysis, developing remediation plans, and reviewing substantive testing
- Develop relationships with process owner and second line functions to ensure success of the program
- Coordinated team meetings to ensure tasks were completed on time.
Senior Associate, Controllership
Santander Consumer USA
02.2017 - 02.2021
- Manage remediation efforts for issues identified associated with departments encompassing the Finance Division
- The process entails initial issue identification, working with various departments to develop mitigation plans, and conducting substantive testing
- Work with business owners to update SOX and RCSA documentation
- Assisted with conversion of SOX control documentation from Archer to in-house GRC application
- Assisted in walkthroughs to identify risks for the departments encompassed in the Finance Division
- Align the risks identified by the business owners in the RCSA development sessions to identify gaps
- Assisted business owners in the identification of controls to mitigate their operational risks
- Developed RCSA test plans
- Reviewed RCSA test results performed by other members of the department
- Recipient of the Success Award for the Finance Division 2018-2019.
SOX Compliance Manager
Mr. Cooper (FKA Nationstar Mortgage)
04.2015 - 01.2017
- Work with process owners and the SOX Team to update internal control documentation
- Assisted external and internal auditors in testing of the loan origination processes
- Developed remediation plans and tracked progress for issues pertaining to audit findings or control exceptions in Archer.
Senior SOX Compliance Analyst
Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas
09.2014 - 03.2015
- Manage quarterly Sarbanes-Oxley 404 assessments which included updating the flowcharts, control matrixes and test scripts
- Perform walkthroughs to develop and document controls pertaining to new or revised processes
- Work with external and internal auditors to perform testing of internal controls
- Work with various levels of management to remediate control exceptions
- Conducted walkthroughs and updated the entity level control framework to address the COSO 2013 Internal Control Integrated Framework
- Conduct testing of Entity Level controls pertaining to Internal Audit functions
- Perform high level review of Internal Audit’s SOX Management testing as part of the PMO function
- Assisted in updating the risk and controls for a conversion to Archer
- Assisted users in compliance with the End User Computing and maintained supporting documentation
- Worked with management to document and follow-up on action plans for Operation Risk Events
- Created ACL projects to generate the account risk ranking report and security pricing analysis
- Administer user access in the financially significant applications.
Senior in Financial Planning and Analysis
EMC Mortgage Corporation/Bear Stearns & Co
08.2007 - 04.2008
- Created an application to generate Conduit division monthly reports.
Supervisor in the Accounting and Controls Department
EMC Mortgage Corporation/Bear Stearns & Co
03.2004 - 08.2007
- Oversaw company's compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act which included managing the quarterly 404 assessment and resolving control exceptions
- Worked with external and internal auditors to perform SOX testing
- Developed the internal controls for the Conduit and Master Servicing operations.
Senior Staff Accountant
EMC Mortgage Corporation/Bear Stearns & Co
07.1998 - 03.2004
- Worked with a team of three to create the first Operating budget for EMC
- Performed analysis of monthly operating budget variances for all cost centers
- Ensured expenditures over the threshold were reviewed and reported to senior management
- Administered Prophix, budget variance tracking software and conducted the training classes
- Performed daily reconciliation of the whole loan inventory across three systems (G/L, servicing, and trading).
Senior Consultant in the Information Technology Group
Ernst & Young LLP
09.1994 - 07.1998
- Instrumental in a successful core financial and accounting system conversion for a mid-sized property management company
- Worked on the on-going audit of a large real estate property management company
- Supervised a team of six in reviewing the legal files of a large discount retailer to generate the notification letters for the creation of their two REITS.
Education
Master of Science - Audit With Emphasis in Information Systems
University of North Texas
Denton, TXBachelor of Science - Accounting
University of North Texas
Denton, TXSkills
- Business Development
- Financial Management
- Workforce Management
- Staff Development
- Cross-Functional Teamwork
- Staff Training and Development
- Audit Coordination
- Risk Mitigation
- Internal Controls
- Root Cause Analysis
Accomplishments
Recipient of the Success Award for the Finance Division 2018-2019
Certification
- CPA - Certified Public Accountant
Timeline
Manager, Business Controls & Risk Management
Santander Consumer USA
02.2021 - 04.2024
Senior Associate, Controllership
Santander Consumer USA
02.2017 - 02.2021
SOX Compliance Manager
Mr. Cooper (FKA Nationstar Mortgage)
04.2015 - 01.2017
Senior SOX Compliance Analyst
Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas
09.2014 - 03.2015
Senior in Financial Planning and Analysis
EMC Mortgage Corporation/Bear Stearns & Co
08.2007 - 04.2008
Supervisor in the Accounting and Controls Department
EMC Mortgage Corporation/Bear Stearns & Co
03.2004 - 08.2007
Senior Staff Accountant
EMC Mortgage Corporation/Bear Stearns & Co
07.1998 - 03.2004
Senior Consultant in the Information Technology Group
Ernst & Young LLP
09.1994 - 07.1998
Master of Science - Audit With Emphasis in Information Systems
University of North Texas
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
University of North Texas