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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Control Management Senior Manager to join the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Control Management Team. This is a highly visible strategic leadership role with an opportunity to lead and develop key risk priorities to support the CRE business.

This role will be accountable for partnering with their relevant business group to develop and maintain a strong control environment leading to the early identification and sustainable mitigation of operational risk. The leader will be responsible for leading risk identification, assessment, escalation, and mitigation, and managing a team of professionals that perform day-to-day risk and control activities in support of and partnership with front line business teams.

In this role you will:

• Lead the identification, documentation, and evaluation of risks throughout Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) lifecycle

• Complete assessments of control design, performance, and redesign less than effective controls

• Perform root cause analysis with Risk Assessable Unit (RAU) leaders and/or control owners & key stakeholders for complaints, incidents, operational risk events, and other issues. Consult with applicable stakeholders to develop remediation plans to address root causes

• Lead, document, and approve issue pre-vetting, scoping, corrective action development, and RCSA alignment

• Escalate breaches, trends, or other themes to Risk & Control Committees/Councils/Forums

• Engage in audit, exam, and issue validation management

• Participate in new product process, including supporting risk assessments for new products and related products changes

• Analyze business initiatives to influence potential process, risk, and control impacts and drive efficiency and growth

• Create management reporting and presentations, including developing and managing reporting content and routines for periodic updates to senior leaders, business management meetings, risk and control committees, and ad hoc requests

• Manage and develop a professional team with a strong working knowledge of the products, services, applicable regulations and policies, business processes, systems, and customers for the CRE business, including the key risk requirements and controls that apply to the business

• Continuously engage in discussions with partners on strategy, industry trends, organizational changes, and new/modified markets, systems, products and services, to determine impact and identify and remediate risk and control issues across all risk types

• Lead other special projects as needed to support the control management function in CRE and CIB, including representing CRE Control in select CIB-level forums

As a Team Member Manager, you are expected to achieve success by leading yourself, your team, and the business. Specifically, you will:

• Lead your team with integrity and create an environment where your team members feel included, valued, and supported to do work that energizes them

• Accomplish management responsibilities which include sourcing and hiring talented team members, providing ongoing coaching and feedback, recognizing and developing team members, identifying and managing risks, and completing daily management tasks

This position directly supports 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. Teams are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following, and adhering to and if 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.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of Risk Management or Business Controls experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• 3+ years of Management experience

Desired Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in a CRE line of business or front-line risk control position

• Strong awareness of industry trends and related risk, technology, and process developments

• Substantial knowledge and experience in risk management practices and applicable systems and applications used across CRE

• Prior experience in risk process improvement, standardization and automation of business and control processes, quality assurance and control routines, and risk and control metrics and reporting

• Experience designing efficient control frameworks across complex and multi-jurisdictional regulatory frameworks and risk types

• Demonstrated leadership capability, including past hiring and building of effective and loyal teams as well as influence, partnership support, and productive impact on broader teams outside of direct management control. Collaborative team player, able to translate prior business knowledge and experience into strong and productive relationships internally and externally to achieve goals and improve business performance

• Strong work ethic, including being enthusiastic and deliverables- and performance-oriented, with a demonstrated bias toward proactive communication and responsiveness to in-flight demands

• Ability to synthesize data and observations from a variety of sources, deliver succinct summaries (both verbal and written), and enact response quickly

• Experience with the monitoring and implementation of risk management requirements, systems and controls, on a global basis

• Capable of diagnosing business needs, conceptualizing and initiating planning, organizing the enlistment of response teams, and the implementation and management of change

• Ability to understand and operate successfully in a complex, heavily matrixed corporate environment

Job Expectations:

• This position requires onsite presence 3 days a week at one of the posted locations

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time

Posting End Date:

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

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At Wells Fargo, we believe in diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace; accordingly, we welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, individuals with disabilities, pregnancy, marital status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

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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