Jenny Wei

Jenny has more than 25 years of experience advising global financial institutions on a wide range of internal audit and regulatory matters, including enterprise risk management, regulatory compliance, corporate compliance, operations, and independent regulatory remediation validation, as well as compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/anti-money laundering (AML), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act, and Japanese SOX (J-SOX).

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About Jenny

Jenny helps financial services institutions set up internal audit functions, deliver the internal audit plan, and transform internal audits on people, process, purpose, and technology to create long-term value and build trust with stakeholders. She leads large projects with multidisciplinary teams in planning and executing internal audits, SOX compliance, risk management, corporate and regulatory compliance, and special projects for multibillion-dollar global companies in financial services and private equity.

Jenny is recognized for her collaborative style, relationship-building skills, adaptability, and complex problem-solving capabilities, as well as bringing innovation and diversity to the workplace and the community.

Throughout her career, Jenny has:

• Led fully outsourced and co-sourced internal audit engagements, performing risk assessments, developing audit plans, and conducting a range of finance, operations, information technology, risk management, vendor management, regulatory, cybersecurity, and compliance audits.
• Advised senior executives on solving complex risk management and control-related issues in a broad range of banking and capital market areas, including governance, risk management, internal audit, general regulatory, and examination matters.
• Interfaced with regulators and senior management on business risk profiles, audit coverage, review results, and ongoing management action plan remediation.
• Advised global financial institutions to address regulatory issues and enforcement actions by providing guidance, validating the implementation of sustainable management action plans, and communicating with the regulators.
• Led the development and enhancement of audit universes; risk taxonomies; risk assessments; continuous monitoring; internal audit charters; manual, risk-based internal audit plans and execution; and quality assurance and improvement programs to address emerging risks and regulatory expectations for large global banks, foreign branches, broker-dealers, asset management, and private equity firms.
• Led engagements for Fortune 100 companies and complex global organizations, directed C-suite relationships across all services, and consulted on process and control optimization, cost reductions and cost efficiencies, digital transformation, automation, and artificial intelligence and ChatGPT technology, driving long-term value through technology-enabled efficiency and effectiveness.
• Assisted Japan-based multinational banks in meeting the requirements of the Japanese Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (J-SOX) by taking a top-down, risk-based approach and compliance assessment.

Prior to joining Huron, Jenny served as managing director at PwC’s cyber risk and regulatory practice. She acted as the PwC experience leader for large global financial institutions and assisted clients in achieving and maintaining internal audit functions and compliance programs. Jenny served as a coach, mentor, and advocate of the next generation of talent. She also held the role of senior manager at EY, assisting clients with audits, compliance, and risk.