Senior Lead Financial Crimes Officer - CSBB Financial Crimes Advisory

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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Financial Crimes Officer to join the Consumer, Small & Business Banking (CSBB) Financial Crimes Risk Management Business Advisory Group. Learn more about the career areas and business divisions at wellsfargojobs.com. The group is responsible for providing advice, oversight, and challenge of the financial crimes program across CSBB. This position consults and provides guidance on the development, implementation, and monitoring of complex business-specific Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABC) programs. This team member will work with teams across CSBB, along with partners across FCRM, Compliance, Control, Audit, and Legal regarding risk management. Position may lead efforts and mentor but does not manage other team members.

In this role, you will:

• Provide Financial Crimes expertise and guidance for CSBB related activities and projects to ensure meeting all policy requirements.

  Advises on the applicability of policies, assesses the adequacy and effectiveness of procedures and challenges, when needed.

• Provide oversight of assigned financial crimes related issues and corrective actions to ensure control deficiencies are effectively resolved.

• Work cross-functionally with partners to identify issues, propose solutions, and drive strategic objectives. Assists in developing corrective actions to mitigate risks and monitors to completion.

• Contributes to the development and enhancement of the business control environment for Financial Crimes.

• Identify risk exposure based on emerging risks and changes in business processes or risk appetite.

• Assist with aggregating risk information and communicating the financial crimes risk profile.

• Assess and respond to Business escalations and exception requests.

• Identify and escalate financial crimes risk matters to management, as appropriate.

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:

• 5+ years’ experience in Financial Crimes Risk Management including regulatory expectations, controls, new product/business initiatives.

• 5+ years’ experience in risk management (includes compliance, financial crimes, operational risk, audit and legal).

• Experience with implementing Financial Crimes requirements within Consumer, Small and Business Banking lines of businesses.

• In-Depth experience Identifying, mitigating, and consulting around financial crime risk and regulations.

• Experience successfully influencing, leading, and negotiating with executives, senior business leaders and partners to gain commitment to accomplish business goals.

• Strong understanding of policies, procedures, and programs to ensure appropriate and effective risk mitigation controls are in place.

• Experience creating presentation decks for different audiences that can outline/highlight the topic in a clear and concise manner.

• Analytical skills with the ability to grasp complex business issues quickly and be able to successfully explain to an independent third party.

• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

• Ability to work independently, prioritize, meet deadlines and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment.

Job Expectations:

• 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.