CBL BSA/AML Senior Lead Business Accountability Specialist

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Business Accountability Specialist in Consumer Banking and Lending (CBL) BSA/AML team.

The group is responsible for financial crimes risk coverage across CBL to identify, assess, manage and mitigate current and emerging risk exposures associated with their activities and operations. This position consults and provides guidance on the development, implementation, and monitoring of complex business-specific Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABC) programs, with a focus on Small and Small Business Banking, products and payments. Works with Financial Crimes Risk Management (FCRM) partners in Independent Risk Management (IRM) on moderate to high risk and complex financial crimes programs. May interface with Audit, Legal, external agencies, and regulatory bodies regarding risk management of business-specific risk programs. Position may lead project/virtual teams and may mentor but does not manage other team members.

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In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with technology and product teams to integrate compliance requirements into product design and ongoing operations, ensuring effective controls are embedded from launch through scale

• Manage oversight of financial crimes related issues and corrective actions to ensure control deficiencies are effectively resolved

• Work cross-functionally with Financial Crimes partners to identify issues, propose solutions, and drive strategic objectives. Assists in developing corrective actions to mitigate risks

• Provide Financial Crimes expertise and guidance for CBL related activities and projects

• Support regulatory exams, internal audits, or Independent Risk Management reviews

• Contribute to the development and enhancement of the business control environment to mitigate Financial Crimes risk

• Consult with the business stakeholders on Financial Crimes related projects to identify and mitigate operational risks for end-to-end processes that span CBL functions

• Identify risk exposure based on emerging risks and changes in business processes

• Assist with aggregating risk information and communicating the financial crimes risk profile for assigned business units

• Understand applicable regulations to develop controls to ensure compliance

• Identify and escalate financial crimes risk matters to management, as appropriate

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of risk management, business controls, quality assurance, business operations, compliance, or process experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• 6+ years of financial crimes experience with deep knowledge of regulations and requirements

• Issue Management experience, including root cause analysis and corrective action planning and monitoring ensuring on-time resolution of risk

• Experience with implementing Financial Crimes requirements within Consumer & Small Business Banking lines of business

• Experience Identifying, mitigating and consulting around risk and regulations

• Experience successfully influencing, leading, and negotiating with executives, senior business leaders and partners to gain commitment to accomplish business goals

• Experience in understanding and documenting unfamiliar processes to identify key risks, identify and evaluate controls and provide consulting to remediate control deficiencies preferably within financial services

• Experience creating presentation decks for different audiences that can outline/highlight the topic in a clear and concise manner.

• Strong understanding of policies, procedures, and programs to ensure appropriate and effective risk mitigation controls are in place

• Experience developing partnerships and collaborating with various levels of business partners including Senior leaders and executive management

• Experience in control, compliance, fraud, risk management, audit, or a related job function/role

• Process risk and control assessment experience  

• Analytical skills with the ability to grasp complex business issues quickly and be able to successfully explain to an independent third party

• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

• Ability to prioritize work