Senior Lead Financial Crimes Officer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Financial Crimes Officer to join the AML Program team within Financial Crimes Risk Management. Learn more about the career areas and business divisions at wellsfargojobs.com. The Senior Lead Financial Crimes Officer will be responsible for leading and supporting complex, high priority initiatives that span multiple business groups and enterprise functions.  This role will play a critical role building out a risk-based AML program reasonably designed to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and regulatory expectations related to global anti-bribery and corruption, anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorism financing (CTF), and economic sanctions.

In this role, you will:

• Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence objectives, plans, specifications, resources, and long-term goals for highly complex business and technical needs across groups and functions.
• Implement and maintain an effective financial crimes program that complies with all applicable laws, regulations, and regulatory expectations including Bank Secrecy Act, Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing, and Global Sanctions.
• Evaluate long-term implications and consequences of strategic business decisions and recommend appropriate alternatives for risk management.
• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the company.
• Deliver solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical thinking, and coordination of highly complex activities and guidance to others.
• Lead implementation of complex initiatives with high risk, generally spanning multiple business lines.
• Provide vision, direction, and full knowledge to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions that are large scale companywide strategies.
• Lead risk evaluation and independently challenge existing fundamentals or assumptions while developing alternative approaches, models and solutions to schemes and trend.
• Influence and negotiate with executive management, business heads, and high-level stakeholders.
• Lead initiatives and virtual teams across the organization to deliver companywide business transformations.
• Engage strategically with all levels of professionals and managers across the company.
• Liaise with Legal, Audit, and law enforcement agencies.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Financial Crimes, Operational Risk, Fraud, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery, Corruption experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

Desired Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience interpreting, developing, implementing and/or maintaining AML related financial crimes program requirements.
• 4+ years of experience developing, leading, and executing financial crimes risk management initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of financial crimes-related regulatory requirements and banking industry “best practices” for financial crimes compliance programs in large banking or consumer lending organizations.
• Experience partnering across multiple groups and different levels of management.
• Experience interpreting a range of policies and procedures for functions with moderate to higher complexity and risk.
• Demonstrated experience in developing, articulating, and organizing findings to draft executive level summaries.
• Execution mind-set to drive internal/external deliverables and strategic change.
• Active Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and/or Wells Fargo AML/Sanctions Credential.

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule.
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

• Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants

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.

$144,400.00 - $300,000.00