Senior Business Accountability Specialist

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Business Accountability Specialist.

This is a Governance, Reporting and Business Management role reporting to the India and Philippines Head Risk Programs, under India and Philippines CIB Chief Operating Office. The role will require to acquire a strong understanding of the CIB organization, Committee structure, business operations, financial management and distil complex information into meaningful insights for senior leaders. The ideal candidate should demonstrate their ability to work closely with Senior Management, relevant stakeholders across the broader COO organization and with key Global stakeholders.

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:

• Preparation of materials for monthly and quarterly Committees

• Working with the wider CIB team to draft agenda, prepare the material, minute the meeting and effectively track action items from committees and other forums

• Co-ordinate annual reviews and updates of disclosures and disclaimers

• Support the Internal and external audits

• Engage with stakeholders with effectively and with perseverance to ensure timeliness in the expected outcome

Job Expectations:

• Background in risk, governance and or reporting

• Background in Business Management will be an added advantage

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to think logically

• A data driven mindset with excellent analytical skills, including the ability to distil complex information/ data sets into meaningful reports

• Extensive experience to an advanced level of using all Microsoft Office applications e.g., PowerPoint for complex presentations, Outlook, Excel, and Word

• Must be able to work independently and as part of a team (regional and international)

• Ability to influence, negotiate, build consensus and partner with a diverse set of stakeholders at all levels across multiple jurisdictions

• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities

• Experience in financial forecasting and resource tracking

• Strong attention to detail is essential.

• Self-starter and able to recognize and act on opportunities for continuous improvement

• Unquestionable ethics and integrity

• Sound judgement with a high level of discretion.

• Developing and designing reporting suitable for senior management and executives

• Writing and delivering presentations to Senior audiences

• Managing large and complex data sets

Posting End Date: 

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

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