Senior Lead Financial Crimes Officer - OFAC Sanctions

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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Financial Crimes Officer to join the Global Sanctions Office within Financial Crimes Risk Management. Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com. As a part of Wells Fargo's second line of defense and Independent Risk Management team, the Global Sanctions Office is responsible for implementing and maintaining an effective global sanctions program for the company that complies with all applicable laws, regulations, and regulatory expectations related to Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions. The Senior Lead Financial Crimes Officer is a critical role in helping lead the global OFAC sanctions program execution and ensuring it aligns with both global regulations and internal policies. This role serves the critical function of advising all lines of business—including investment banking, corporate banking, retail banking, and consumer lending—on customer risk, sanctions screening oversight, sanctions escalations, and other sanctions-related matters.

In this role, you will:

• Act as an Economic Sanctions Subject Matter Expert responsible for helping oversee and govern Wells Fargo’s OFAC sanctions program and providing accurate and thoughtful regulatory guidance to business units.

• 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.

• Serve as an excellent advisor to leadership.

• Lead risk evaluation and independently challenge existing fundamentals or assumptions while developing alternative approaches, models and solutions to schemes and trends.

• 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.

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:

• Experience working with payment ecosystems, including major payment rails, messaging, and settlement frameworks (e.g., Fedwire, CHIPS, SWIFT).

• Expert understanding in OFAC sanctions, risks, and typologies, with the