Senior Lead Business Execution Consultant / Strategic Enterprise Risk Management

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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Business Execution Consultant

In this role, you will:

On the Thematic Risk Team you will play an integral role in leading and driving the analysis and solutions for the Company’s top and emerging risks.  This team is accountable for identifying both thematic trends and emerging risk areas – a priority area of Strategic Enterprise Risk Management (SERM) and Wells Fargo. These topics will cover a variety of risk topics spanning non-financial and financial risk.   You will work and collaborate with business leaders, function leaders and risk leaders to lead data-driven analysis on these thematic risk areas.

• Act as a Business Execution advisor to leadership to drive performance and initiatives, and develop and implement information delivery or presentations to key stakeholders and senior management

• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges related to Business Execution that require solid analytical skills, extensive knowledge of Business Execution, and understanding of business, delivering longer term and large-scale solutions

• Provide vision, direction, and expertise to senior leadership for implementing innovative and significant business solutions that are large scale and cross organizational

• Lead team meetings or steering committee to facilitate decision making and support implementation of recommendations and plans

• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across multiple lines of businesses and serve as an experienced advisor to the leadership

• Provide direction to a cross functional team using business expertise

• Be accountable for managing large sets of change initiatives that are most complex and typically include multiple systems, crosses multiple lines of business and has process/procedural components to them

• Informs and influence sponsors and key stakeholders, senior, and executive leadership to promote success of change initiative, its performance and prioritization

• Seek counsel of peers, stakeholders, change leaders and/or product leaders in times of strategically complex or critical ambiguity and adapts planning, communications, and engagements

• Communicate frequently to the project team, sponsor, portfolio sponsor, portfolio leader, product leader and stakeholders while maintaining cooperative, motivated, and successful teams

• Assist managers with coaching and developing junior level team members

• Incorporate regular and appropriate consultation with steering committees, oversight groups, executive leadership, sponsors, product manager/leaders, business, and other stakeholders to validate change initiative’s success viability, and sustainability

• Partner with stakeholders and peers to develop Board and OpCo materials, business reviews and strategic plans

• Develop and consolidate view on complex business and risk  topics

• Manage, track and report on impact metrics

• Present to executive leadership on findings

• Partner with LOBs and functions to address critical strategic issues

• Identify opportunities and strategies for improvement (e.g., processes, risk)

• Support complex initiatives with broad impact and act as key participant in large scale planning

• Review and analyze complex larger-scale challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience working within the Financial Services Industry

• 3-5+ years of experience in consulting, risk, compliance, business and/or operations roles

• Experience at a Big 4 or other Management Consulting Top Tier Firm

• Experience in supporting cross-organizational strategic initiatives, transformation initiatives, and/or change management initiatives at a large bank with the ability to drive change in a consistent and well aligned manner

• Strong Change Management / Program Management expertise

• Experienced and trusted advisor to LOB stakeholders able to contribute independent perspective and anticipate their needs

• Ability to take on a high level of responsibility, initiative, and accountability

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills with ability to turn findings into strategic initiatives

• Intermediate knowledge and understanding of research and analysis:  gathering, analyzing and interpreting large datasets

Posting Locations:

• 401 S Tryon Street, Charlotte, North Carolina

• 600 S 4th St, Minneapolis, Minnesota

• 800 S Jordan Creek Pkwy, West Des Moines, Iowa

Job Expectations:

• This position currently offers a hybrid work schedule

• Ability to work at the approved location(s) in the job posting

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants

Posting End Date: 

18 Mar 2025

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.