Senior Business Accountability Specialist

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Business Accountability Specialist

In this role, you will:

• Lead or participate in moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within business and contribute to large-scale, cross-functional planning related to mitigation of current and emerging business risk issues and concerns
• Assess, analyze, and design moderately complex controls, protocols, and approaches with respect to risk mitigation and the control environment, including ensuring effective planning for sustainability, ongoing control adherence, reporting, measurement, technology impacts, and monitoring
• Independently make decisions and resolve moderately complex issues while leveraging solid understanding of the business's functional area or products, operations, and regulatory environment facilitate decision-making and issue resolution, and support implementation of developed solutions and plans lead peers and key business partners to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers to address current and emerging risks associated with business activities and operations, and provide guidance or support in interpreting, developing, and implementing risk-mitigating strategies
• Partner with peers and the business in interactions with external parties to support appropriateness and timeliness of response, and effectiveness of communications and materials
• May serve as a mentor for lower-level staff

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of risk management, business controls, quality assurance, business operations, compliance, or process experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Desire Payments experience
• Knowledge and understanding of Shared Risk Platform (SHRP) / Veritas such as reporting and issue management
• Knowledge and understanding of Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA)
• Experience with tracking, monitoring, and implementing corrective actions or information security exceptions for Operational Risk or a combination of both.
• Knowledge and understanding of compliance or operational risk
• Ability to communicate effectively, in both written and verbal formats and, with senior executive-level leaders
• Ability to facilitate and lead meetings with key business partners, with focus on leading operational risk programs
• Ability to build relationships with leaders and team members in a geographically dispersed team environment
• Ability to execute in a fast paced, high demand, environment while balancing multiple priorities
• Ability to quickly learn business operations and processes
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy skills
• Ability to work effectively, as well as independently, in a team environment
• Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills

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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, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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