Senior Lead Control Management Officer - Technology Control Cross Program Initiatives

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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Control Management Officer, a critical position within the Technology Risk and Control Management function.

This individual will support Technology Risk and Control Measurement & Practices, focusing on control modernization. The individual will be responsible for leading the implementation efforts, communications and reporting on the effort to create a modern and robust control framework to mitigate technology risks across the organization. This role will help facilitate the delivery of key deliverables for the effort and raise challenges and opportunities to leadership.

The Senior Lead Control Officer will collaborate with various stakeholders across technology including those leading their modernization initiatives, business, and compliance functions to foster a strong and data driven risk culture ensuring the organization's technology assets are adequately protected.  

In this role, you will:

• Advise leadership and communicate insights: Act as an advisor to leadership to drive performance and initiatives, and develop and implement information delivery or presentations to key stakeholders and senior management

• Lead complex risk strategy and resolution: Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex current and emerging risks requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, as well as good understanding of financial crimes, operational risk, audit, legal, credit risk, market risk, Information Technology (IT) systems security, and business process management

• Design and implement risk mitigation strategies: Engage with all levels of roles across the business group, and serve as an experienced advisor in designing and implementing risk mitigation strategies, business processes, and control framework that mitigate risks and address regulatory requirements

• Drive initiatives around Key Risk Indicators (KRI): Lead complex initiatives designed to mitigate high inherent risks with broad impact primarily around Key Risk Indicators (KRI) for Operational Risks

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

• Collaborate and influence stakeholders: Collaborate with and influence key stakeholders including senior managers

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Risk Management or Financial Services Industry experience, or equivalent experience demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Manage large-scale technology migrations: Ability to manage initiatives involving large technology migration programs at scale

• Apply Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) risk expertise: Generative AI knowledge and risk management support experience

• Lead cross-functional risk initiatives: Proven leadership and project management skills to drive alignment across stakeholder groups to develop and deliver repeatable end-to-end risk management solutions and controls aligned with group’s processes

• Understand operational risk and process management: Comprehensive understanding of operational risk management and/or operations process management

• Interpret U.S. banking regulations: Understanding of United States (U.S.) banking regulatory requirements. Applies product/domain knowledge to improve/add value to the processes, Line of Defense (LOD) structure

• Apply quality assurance and audit practices: Familiar with various quality assurance techniques, issue veri