Lead Business Execution Consultant

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our International Operations Change team. In this role, you will apply your expertise in change management to deliver projects on time, within budget, and in line with firm standards.
You will play a key role in the T+1 industry enhancement project, scheduled for completion in 2027. Responsibilities include project governance, planning, execution, testing, and closure across multiple workstreams.
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In this role, you will:

• Participate in large Industry business enhancement project T+1 that will be delivered in 2027 through project governance, initiation planning, executing, testing and closing all workstreams.
• Identify and capture project dependencies and interdependencies, ensure alignment of actions and artifacts with project policy, methodology and appropriate business deliverables are produced, maintained and milestones are met.
• Exercise independent judgment to guide project plans, full cycle RAID management and ensure project tasks are completed according to established timelines.
• Collaborate and consult with subject matter experts, sponsors, stakeholders, project team members, direct managers, program leads, compliance, risk managers, business partners.
• Adhere to WF Change management policies.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 5+ years of experience in successful delivery of financial industry project management and methodologies.
• Prior involvement in Settlements change preferred.

Job Expectations:

• Possess a proven ability to manage change that create efficient and effective processes and controls with a goal to minimize systemic and systematic risks.
• Ability to manage strategic and tactical execution of components of the change book of work primarily impacting the international region in line with existing governance structures in region and across International as well as Enterprise Change Management policies and procedures.
• Collaborate with the business defining the required product, operating model or infrastructure changes with the various impacted parties and work with the project managers to build this into roadmap and delivery plans.
• Partner with key stakeholders in the CIB and International COO teams in relation to Internationally driven change portfolio that impacts the region.
• Ensure changes to the business driven through the project are sustainable and effectively embedded into business as usual.
• Preliminary analysis to determine the most appropriate solution to achieve strategic goals, through detailed analysis of the business need, feasibility studies, benchmark/trade-off analysis, and development of high-level business requirements.
• Working with end-users and testers to help develop use cases and analyse defects to support fixes and enhancements.
• Assist in monitoring and guiding all new or proposed change initiatives to align to the regional strategy and support business leads to make informed and strategic prioritization decisions and manage internal and external dependencies.
• Analysing and deliver on complex regulations that may span multiple businesses, jurisdictions and summarise for others who may have a less technical background.
• Support analysis and decision making with a specific focus on both business and region-specific impacts associated with new initiatives, projects, and changes to policies, procedures and processes.
• Excellent Stakeholder management skillset to deliver change and develop supporting communication plans where required.
• Attend and present at regional operating committees, program steering committees, as well as leading workshops.
• Work with JIRA and Confluence as key tools within the WF change management process.

Posting End Date:
14 Dec 2025
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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