WIM Financial Crimes Sr. Lead Business Accountability Specialist

About this role:

The Wealth and Investment Management (WIM) Financial Crimes Governance and Oversight organization is seeking a proven leader to manage various enterprise and business strategic initiatives and deliverables. The person in this role must be an effective leader and communicator with highly effective organizational, time management, process and project management skills, technology systems knowledge and must have the ability to consistently drive timely results across a broad group of stakeholders in a timely manner.

In this role, you will:

• Serve as an advisor to senior leadership across product, technology and operations and coordinate, influence and lead resolution of highly complex current and emerging risks
• Lead complex initiatives with broad impact which are designed to mitigate current and emerging business risk issues and concerns; function as key participant in large-scale, cross-functional planning for the business
• Lead team by making strategic decisions to resolve highly complex issues related to higher risk deliverables; develop range of a technology capabilities to support evolving business processes and functions with moderate to high complexity and risk
• Make decisions in complex and multifaceted situations requiring solid understanding of business’s functional area and products, operations, and regulatory environment; facilitate decision-making and issue resolution, and support implementation of developed solutions and plans; influence and lead key business partners to meet deliverables
• Works with leaders, stakeholders, subject matter experts, scrum masters and internal and external service providers and solution delivery teams to understand desired changes (business outcomes that need to be different) and impacted business use cases. Refines desired outcomes into Epics and or Features that summarize desired impacts related to associated systems.
• Engage and influence business leaders, control management, risk, legal, and audit partners to successfully ensure appropriate management of business risk
• Ensures cross-functional dependencies are articulated, managed, and addressed by all constituents.
• Work across different Technology teams to ensure key business updates and risks are captured timely and discussed with relevant stakeholders and committees

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of business and operations execution, technology systems experience, cross functional implementation or strategic planning experience demonstrated through on or more of the following:  work experience, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• 7+ years of risk management experience in the financial services industry
• Strong technical ability and knowledge of WIM systems and applications
• Experience leading and delivering complex initiatives across operations, control, compliance, technology, and product groups to ensure Regulatory and compliance obligations are met
• Business-specific knowledge related to AML business, operational and technology processes
• Experience developing requirements and leading implementation efforts following the Agile methodology
• Ability to develop, articulate and execute against strategic objectives in a rapidly changing environment
• Ability to work independently and within a collaborative team environment, take initiative and assume accountability
• Ability to consult with leaders across various operational, functional and technical disciplines
• Exceptional verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Exceptional leadership, communication and relationship building skills
• Project and process management skills
• Ability to successfully manage competing priorities in a high-pressure deadline driven environment and must be able to effectively navigate a highly matrixed organizational structure to identify, build and maintain key relationships

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Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule in one of the listed job locations
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

Job Location:

• Charlotte, St. Louis, Minneapolis

This position is subject to FINRA Background Screening Requirements, including successful completion and clearing of a background check. Internal transfers are subject to comply with 17 CFR 240.17f-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and FINRA Bylaws, Article III, Section 3, which states that Associated Persons should not be subject to statutory disqualification. Successful candidates must also meet ongoing regulatory requirements including additional screening and are required to report certain incidents.

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.

Posting End Date:

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

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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