Due Diligence Associate Manager

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a dynamic and experienced Due Diligence Associate Manager to lead a team responsible for conducting due diligence reviews of bank customer transactions. This role involves supervising daily operations, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, and managing moderate levels of complexity and risk. The ideal candidate will own the client onboarding process, collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, and drive process improvements to enhance risk mitigation and customer experience.

In this role, you will:

• Supervise a team of individuals who are responsible for executing activities associated with conducting due diligence reviews of bank customers transactions
• Oversee a moderate degree of complexity and risk to determine appropriateness of processes to ensure timely completion, quality and compliance
• Own the client onboarding process and engage with clients, relationship team and third parties
• Mitigate risk through due diligence process
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and risk control development in less complex functions
• Work with due diligence management to implement department policies, procedures and reporting to maximum risk while providing exceptional customer experience
• Establish performance standards, evaluate performance and train and coach staff
• Make daily supervisory decisions and resolve issues related to team supervision, work allocation and daily operations under direction of due diligence management
• Leverage interpretation of policies, procedures, and compliance requirements
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals
• Lead a team to achieve objectives
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Due Diligence group
• Mentor and guide talent development of direct reports and assist in hiring talent

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of Due Diligence, risk management, client service, operations support, or business process management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 1+ years of Leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Management experience with coaching and developing
• Financial Crimes experience
• Demonstrated ability to manage effectively in a matrixed organization
• Working knowledge and experience providing performance reviews and working with year end compensation.
• Demonstrated change leadership skills with ability to lead through change impacts
• Working knowledge of BSA/AML programs including KYC, CDD, EDD, CIP and / or other related risk and regulatory disciplines
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to interact with all levels of an organization
• Operates independently with minimal supervision, and effectively manages work requests to meet performance expectations
• Ability to dissect complex organizational structures to complete due diligence quality reviews
• Ability to handle confidential material in a professional manner
• Ability to articulate complex concepts in a clear manner
• Ability to prioritize tasks, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment
• Ability to collaborate with geographically dispersed teams
• Ability to navigate through ambiguity and maintain momentum driving for results and clarity in uncertain situations
• Proven experience building partnerships, collaborating, and influencing key stakeholders
• Ability to execute in a fast paced, high demand, environment while balancing multiple priorities• Ability to quickly re-prioritize work
• Ability to translate and summarize complex data into understandable, actionable information and recommendations

Position Location:

• 800 S. Jordan Creek Pkwy, West Des Moines IA
• **Required location for this position is listed above.  Candidate must reside within a reasonable commute to the site location. **
• Hybrid Work Schedule
• Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

Posting End Date: 

25 Sep 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, nati