Senior Lead Control Management Officer

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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Control Management Officer to join the WIM-wide governance and key compliance initiatives team in the Control Management organization. 

In this role, you will:

Governance: engages, influences, and leads across WIM businesses and activities to ensure a control lens is applied consistently and holistically to current and emerging risks. 

• Committee Support – Support secretarial functions for various Wealth & Investment Management (WIM) governance, risk, and other committees and councils by managing logistics and documentation.

• Governance Routine Management – Help establish and maintain governance routines including committee charters, meeting materials, minutes, escalation protocols, calendars, and approval workflows.

• Policy Adherence Oversight – Guide compliance with enterprise and line of business policies, procedures, and protocols to ensure consistent governance practices.

• Executive Guidance – Provide strategic support to business leaders, IRM, and control executives in setting agendas, preparing materials, and tracking follow-up actions for committee and council meetings.

• Risk Theme Coordination – Collaborate with control officers, risk, compliance, and legal teams to identify and ensure discussion of key risk themes and topics in relevant committees, escalating issues when necessary.

• Committee Liaison – Act as a primary contact for senior leaders, committee members, and content providers regarding presentation standards, committee processes, and governance requirements.

• Meeting Facilitation – Lead and participate in preparatory meetings with stakeholders and senior leaders to review agendas, materials, and address outstanding or ad-hoc requests.

• Post-Meeting Communication – Communicate follow-up actions, feedback on materials, and other relevant updates to all impacted committee participants and content contributors

Key Compliance Initiatives:

• Initiative Leadership – Partner with team leadership to drive enterprise and line of business initiatives that require significant risk and control input across Wealth & Investment Management (WIM).

• Compliance Alignment – Ensure compliance initiatives are effectively integrated with WIM’s risk frameworks, operational practices, and strategic goals.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration – Work closely with diverse functions—including operations, compliance, legal, audit, and control teams—across the enterprise and at varying levels of seniority to support governance and risk efforts

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Risk Management or Financial Services industry, or equivalent experience demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Governance Forum Experience – Demonstrated experience participating in or supporting governance forums, including committee operations and decision-making processes.

• Financial Services Knowledge – Strong understanding of the financial services industry, its products, and the regulatory landscape; experience in risk, compliance, or legal functions is a plus.

• Enterprise Risk Framework Familiarity – Working knowledge of enterprise risk frameworks such as Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA), issue management, and risk metric tracking.

• Senior Leader Communication – Proven ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with senior leaders across business lines and control functions.

• Influential Leadership – Ability to influence key partners and leaders, lead meetings confidently, and contribute meaningfully to fast-paced and complex discussions.

• Strong Communication Skills – Excellent listening and writing skills, with the ability to distill complex topics into clear, und