About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Financial Crimes Officer to lead programs to identify customer and emerging financial crime risk across Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) to include Correspondent Banking, FinTechs/Money Services Businesses, and Corporations. This Lead Financial Crimes Officer will support cross-functional strategic and tactical financial intelligence work products to help senior leadership identify and manage financial crime risk across the CIB platform.
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In this role, you will:
- Manage transactional and/or intelligence reviews across CIB portfolio and high-risk customer segments. Ensuring successful planning, integration, impasse resolution, and measurement of operations with moderate to high complexity and visibility
- Engage functional leaders to obtain resources, influence outcomes, address conflict, and ensure alignment with Wells Fargo's policies and business line objectives
- Identify potential risks when implementing change along with developing mitigation strategies and plans
- Recommend opportunities for Business Execution process improvement
- Determine appropriate strategies and actions of multiple business groups to meet moderate to high complex deliverables in managing financial crimes risk.
- Interpret procedures and processes, and provide leadership to strategize and execute a variety of financial crime programs, services, and initiatives that are significant in scope, complexity, and risk
- Collaborate with and influence functional business partners, leaders, and executive management to provide support and drive strategic initiatives for the business
- Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy
- Manage business applications and approve business decisions for those applications
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- 5+ years of Financial Crimes, Operational Risk, Fraud, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery, Corruption experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 5+ years of experience within global financial institutions, regulatory, law enforcement or intelligence community working on international financial crime and emerging risk programs.
- Understands correspondent banking, wholesale banking, markets and MSB/Payment products.
- Work with global teams from diverse background and cultures.
- Develop strategic and tactical financial crimes risk assessments using data and analytics to inform senior business and financial crime leadership of emerging risk within the CIB platform.
- Collect intelligence from multiple sources (open source, professional networks, etc.) and provide actionable recommendations to senior management.
- Stays up-to-date on United States and International Anti-Money Laundering ("AML") and Sanction Regulations as well as emerging financial crimes risk associated with cybercrime and cryptocurrencies.
- Able to work with multiple teams and stakeholders to deliver on company objectives.
- Experienced communicator at all levels within an organization from senior leadership to direct reports.
- Strong written communication who is able to provide guidance and supportive feedback to direct reports.
- Second language in one of the following: Spanish, Arabic, or Chinese (Mandarin) is a plus.
- This position offers a hybrid work schedule.
- This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
- This position is subject to FINRA Background Screening Requirements, including successful completion and clearing of a background check. Internal transfers are subject to comply with 17 CFR 240.17f-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and FINRA Bylaws, Article III, Section 3, which states that Associated Persons should not be subject to statutory disqualification. Successful candidates must also meet ongoing regulatory requirements including additional screening and are required to report certain incidents.
7 Apr 2025
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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