Lead Business Accountability Specialist-Supply Chain Management Governance

About this role: Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Business Accountability Specialist in the Supply Chain Management Governance Team supporting third party resiliency, incidents, and events. This leadership role will develop and execute upon strategic business initiatives, including expanding the governance framework and the reporting intelligence of risk events.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex initiatives with broad impact which are designed to mitigate current and emerging business risk issues and concerns; act as key participant in large-scale, cross-functional planning for the business

• Assess, analyze, and design complex and multi-faceted controls, protocols, and approaches with respect to risk mitigation and the control environment, including ensuring effective planning for sustainability, ongoing control adherence, reporting, measurement, technology impacts, and monitoring

• Make decisions in complex and multifaceted situations requiring solid understanding of business’s functional area or 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 and drive new initiatives

• Strategically collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid to senior-level managers to identify current and emerging risks associated with business activities and operations, and provide guidance in interpreting, developing, and implementing risk-mitigating strategies

• Act as liaison for the business with external parties to support timeliness, appropriate response strategy, and effectiveness of communications and materials

• May lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor

Locations: 109845-NC-Brigham Building, Charlotte; 141278-NC-CIC Customer Information Center, Charlotte; 141753-NC-Three Wells Fargo Center, Charlotte; 11432-TX-Dallas Campus Building A; 102462-AZ-B Building, Chandler Campus

*Relocation assistance is not offered for this position.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ 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:

• Experience and ability to identify and triage third party risk events in a concise manor and to all levels of the organization

• Strong understanding of third-party risk concepts and operation risk frameworks

• Experience with incident management, event response, and resiliency

• Experience executing in complex, global delivery environments

• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy

• Ability to assess issues, make quick decisions, and implement solutions

• Ability to influence, partner, and negotiate with senior business leaders to gain commitment to accomplish business goals

• Flexible and readily available to adapt to frequent change

• Ability to create clear, concise, and impactful executive communications.

• Experience and ability to present complex material in a concise manor and to all levels of the organization

• Proven ability to think both strategically and tactically, with relentless focus on implementing operationally.

Job Expectations:

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time

• Ability to work on-site at one of the work locations

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule.

• Flexibility to work hours that may be critical to resiliency needs

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

Posting End Date: 

12 Jul 2025

*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 a