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Enterprise Risk Senior Manager (Executive Director)

Wells Fargo
Irelandfull_timeVerifiedPosted 15 May 2025

About the role

<p><b>About this role:</b></p><p>Are you ready to take the lead in enterprise risk management at a global financial institution? Wells Fargo Bank International (WFBI) is looking for a Senior Manager to head its Enterprise Risk function, providing strategic oversight of model risk, reputation risk, strategic risk, and legal entity risk reporting. </p><p></p><p>As a key leader in the International Risk Strategy, Planning &amp; Governance (SP&amp;G) team, you’ll work closely with the WFBI CRO, the International Head of Risk SP&amp;G, and other senior leaders to drive a holistic risk management approach, ensuring strong governance and oversight across the organization. </p><p></p><p>This is an opportunity to shape policies, lead strategic initiatives, and play a pivotal role in risk leadership within WFBI. If you thrive in a collaborative, high-impact environment and want to make a difference in global risk management, we’d love to hear from you.</p><p><br/><b><b>In this role, you will:</b></b></p><p>Under the supervision of the WFBI CRO &amp; the International Head of the Risk SP&amp;G Team, lead the implementation of certain key Enterprise Risk deliverables that seek to drive a holistic approach to risk management including:</p><ul><li>Be responsible for the ‘Enterprise Risk Programs, Risk Reporting &amp; Governance’ (e.g. risk identification, risk appetite, risk profile, risk reporting and new business initiatives) coverage area of the SP&amp;G team, which includes WFBI, multiple legal entities and non-US jurisdictions.</li><li>Develop enterprise risk, governance, reporting programs, plans, specifications, resources, and long- term goals for highly complex corporate governance risk programs and technical business needs across multiple front lines,; including influencing group programs and policy development to reflect international requirements e.g. risk management framework, risk strategy and risk appetite, risk measurement, risk identification and assessment programs.</li><li>Review complex business, operational, or technical challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.</li><li>Formulate and present recommendations for resolving more complex situations and exercise independent judgment while developing expertise in relevant policies, procedures and requirements.</li><li>Oversee the coordination and aggregation of risk reporting and risk submissions which are presented to governance committees for review, recommendation or approval.</li><li>Lead escalation, and timely remediation of issues, deficiencies or regulatory matters regarding risk management.</li><li>Deliver solutions that are long term, large scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking, and coordination of highly complex activities and guidance to others</li><li>Engage and influence stakeholders, internal partners and peers associated with the responsible oversight and strategic direction of enterprise risk, governance and reporting programs or affected by its outcomes</li><li>Identify, support and recommend opportunities for process improvement and risk control development of companywide risk-based programs</li><li>Utilize knowledge of risk and regulatory for one or more risk, product or front-line areas with significant impact and risk</li><li>Determine appropriate strategy and actions of the team to meet moderate to high-risk deliverables</li><li>Interpret and develop policies and procedures for functions with moderate complexity within scope of responsibility</li><li>Build relationships with corporate, business heads, Legal, Audit, regulators and industry partners on risk related topics</li><li>Manage and develop teams of individuals in roles with moderate complexity and risk</li><li>Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy</li></ul><p></p><p>Under the supervision of the WFBI CRO and specific to WFBI, the role holder will be accountable for managing the firm's enterprise risk including risk controls, setting and managing risk exposures and reporting directly to the WFBI CRO on risk management matters. This includes SP&amp;G and risk analytics activities such as:</p><ul><li>Leading on the implementation of key team priorities and deliverables which will involve development, implementation, and monitoring of key risk governance related processes.</li><li>Oversight of strategic risk, model risk, reputation risk.</li><li>Execution of risk programs such as risk identification, risk appetite, risk profile, risk reporting, policy management and new business initiatives, and</li><li>Leading risk analytics team responsible for core credit risk reporting, regulatory risk support, report submission and managing IFRS9 loss provision model components (including engagement with group model service providers)</li></ul><p><br/><b><b>Required Qualifications:</b></b></p><ul><li>Experience in Risk Management (Compliance, Financial Crimes, Ope

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