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Senior Lead Financial Crimes Officer - Financial Crimes Re-Engineering

Wells Fargo
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 2 Jul 2025
💰 $300,000/yr($144,400/yr$300,000/yr)

About the role

At Wells Fargo, we are looking for talented people who will put our customers at the center of everything we do. It all begins with outstanding talent. It all begins with you.

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Financial Crimes Officer to lead the Financial Crimes Risk Management Program and be responsible for supporting the Financial Crimes Risk Management program to improve and enhance imperative processes and procedures. Learn more about the career areas and business divisions at wellsfargojobs.com.


In this role, you will:

  • Provide SME support to FCRM’s leadership to define short, medium, and long-term strategic vision and objectives to improve effectiveness and efficiency of the function.

  • Own specific FCRM workstreams to deliver strategic objectives.

  • Lead specific FCRM operating model redesign, and process improvement initiatives within applicable work-streams.

  • Partner with FCRM senior stakeholders to scope and launch organizational, process, and/or technology improvements initiatives.

  • Manage in-depth current state assessments, design target state solutions and options, and quantify effectiveness and efficiency impacts.

  • Develop the business case for change and attain buy-in from senior leadership

  • Define execution approach and detailed execution plans.

  • Project and monitor strategic initiatives impact to FCRM staffing and financial budgets and forecasts.

  • Oversee execution to ensure strategic objectives are delivered in plan and on budget.


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:

  • Advanced level of Six Sigma, Lean, DMAIC, and other process improvement and change management methodologies to drive change.

  • Knowledgeable of Financial Crimes processes, systems, and operating models, including Financial Crime Investigations, FCRM Program, or FCRM Advisory.

  • Previous management consulting experience at a strategy consulting firm, or as part of an internal consulting or strategy function within a Financial Services firm.

  • Proven ability to act as an SME across end-to-end process improvement initiatives (scoping, current state mapping, process analytics, target state process design, business case development, execution planning, execution governance, etc.)  

  • Highly motivated and organized self-starter with ability to work both independently, with minimal supervision, and collaboratively to deliver tasks and strategic objectives on time and in line with quality expectations.

  • Proven capability to develop process improvement and process transformation approaches and methods.

  • Track-record of re-designing existing business processes and successfully delivering efficiency and effectiveness improvements.

  •  Experience working with operational teams, and developing workforce management models, and KRI/KPI reporting.

  • Strong written and verbal communications skills.

  • Expert level in MS Excel, and PowerPoint.

  • Comfort with ambiguity and change.

  • Proven ability to develop senior executive ready presentations.

  • Proven ability to rapidly develop subject matter expertise.


Job Expectations:

  • Ability to travel up to 5% of the time

  • Willingness to work on-site at stated location on the job opening.

  • This position offers a hybrid work schedule

  • This position is not eligible for VISA sponsorship

Posting Locations:

401 S Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC

250 E John Carpenter Frwy, Irving, TX

600 S 4th Street, Minneapolis, MN

800 S Jordan Creek Pkwy, West Des Moines, IA

114 N Beaumont Street, Saint Louis, MO

1150 W Washington Street, Tempe, AZ

100 N 18th Street, Philadelphia, PA

North Carolina Charlotte Pay Range: $144,400.00 - 300,000.00 USD Annually

Texas Irving Pay Range: $144,400.00 - 300,000.00 USD Annually

Minnesota – Minneapolis Pay Range: $144,400.00 - 300,000.00 USD Annually

Iowa – West Des Moin

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