Senior Business Accountability Specialist - Transactional Risk and Intelligence Group

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Business Accountability Specialist to support Transactional Risk and Intelligence Group (TRIG) in performing transaction-based reviews of customers with elevated and complex risk profiles to generate actionable recommendations to line of business risk management teams.

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:

• Ability to think with a risk control mindset
• Knowledge of transactional products (wires, ACH, check, cash vault, etc.)
• Knowledge of BSA/AML programs including KYC, CDD, EDD, CIP and / or other related risk and regulatory disciplines
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate risks and to communicate relevant risk in a simple, decisive, timely and market-appropriate manner
• Strong decision-making, organizational and planning skills
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Knowledge of Wells Fargo systems (WCIS, Cornerstone, Hogan, OIB, IIS, UAR Portal, etc.) and products (wires, ACH, check products, cash vault, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to build strong partnerships across business units

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work on-site at approved location at least three days a week
• Completely and accurately execute TRIG processes and procedures.
• Develop and implement review strategies and techniques that clearly and rationally target risks or typologies.
• Conduct research and analysis and identify clients posing elevated risk for escalation.
• File unusual activity reports in a timely manner.
• Document and communicate review results and recommendations.
• Maintain organized and detailed documentation of review results or recommendations.
• Coordinate with Transactional Risk and Intelligence Group (TRIG) leadership to achieve process improvements
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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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