About Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company is a leading financial services company that has approximately $1.9 trillion in assets. We provide a diversified set of banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through our four reportable operating segments: Consumer Banking and Lending, Commercial Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Wealth and Investment Management. Wells Fargo ranked No. 34 on Fortune’s 2024 rankings of America’s largest corporations. We ranked fourth in assets and third in the market value of our common stock among all U.S. banks at December 31, 2024.

Wells Fargo Internal Audit

Audit is a provider of independent, objective assurance services delivered through a highly competent and diverse team. As a business partner, Audit helps the company accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes.

Enterprise Technology Audit Group (ETAG)

The Chief Audit Director of ETAG currently leads a team of approximately 175 team members.  ETAG is responsible for providing independent testing and audit coverage of information technology and security across the company that includes technology supporting team members and customers. This includes overseeing information security and cybersecurity coverage, infrastructure coverage, governance over information technology and information security including all operational risk areas such as business continuation planning, and chief information officer coverage of business line applications. 

The Role

The Senior Audit Director will collaborate across the ETAG team and other audit teams to ensure comprehensive audit coverage, including performing integrated audits and ensuring thorough coverage of technology across the enterprise. The audit portfolio will align to the topic of Technology governance, oversight and compliance, as well as Functions CIO’s; and will provide application coverage for Functional units as well as support integrated assurance for business risk and controls that require IT Audit subject matter specialists. 

Additional responsibilities:

• Maintain credible, collaborative and influential relationships with senior management, other risk organizations and regulatory agencies.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of technology risks and processes leveraged to manage this risk at Wells Fargo.
• Evaluate of current audit approaches and practices. Provide thought leadership on leading industry practices and driving continued maturation and evolution of the audit function.
• Develop and execute an annual audit plan which evaluates critical risks to Wells Fargo and applies strong, pragmatic professional judgment.
• Communicate audit results to senior executives and using the role within Audit to influence the organization.
• Identify thematic risk trends observed across the portfolio for purposes of influencing strategic control direction and process maturity.
• Keep abreast of changes that impact the audit portfolio from within Wells Fargo, as well as regulatory requirements and emerging technologies.
• Partner with management to identify and anticipate impact of a changing environment and effectively develop audit strategies to address significant risks.
• Lead a team:  Recruit, develop, motivate and retain audit talent within Internal Audit.
• Manage projects and workflow across multiple geographies.
• Identify and lead/manage change within ETAG to enhance effective and efficient delivery of our objectives.
• Drive automation and data analytics opportunities within their portfolio.

The Candidate

The successful candidate for this role will demonstrate effectiveness in building and leading high performing teams. The focus is on driving business results through leadership effectiveness and team member engagement, contributing to Wells Fargo Internal Audit and ETAG strategies with a One Wells Fargo lens, and furthering the strong risk management culture of Wells Fargo and living the vision and values of Wells Fargo. This collaborative and motivating leader must be capable of initiating action and driving/managing change. This position requires a leader with a strategic mindset as well as strong people management, relationship management, influencing, and execution skills. Experience directly and indirectly managing a geographically dispersed team will position a candidate for success. A key differentiator will be the ability to understand and operate successfully in a complex, heavily matrixed corporate environment. The role requires a sense of urgency, passion for excellence and results, and personal accountability for achievement and outcomes.