Senior Business Accountability Specialist

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Business Accountability Specialist.

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:

• Comprehensive understanding of operational risk management in the IT/Technology fields or other highly regulated industries.
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal communication skills and stakeholder management.
• Demonstrate positive attitude and readiness to work in a challenging and dynamic environment.
• Flexibility to multitask and work across domains and business groups.
• Ability to credibly challenge, conduct effective conversations with various levels of management.

Job Expectations:

• Individual contributor role focusing on performing evidence-based control evaluations by conducting various evidence gathering activities.
• Design, maintain and execute the control evaluation scripts, identify control deficiencies, document and escalate potential issues to appropriate stakeholders.
• Perform control evaluations for moderate to complex engagements, challenge status-quo and identify opportunities to add efficiencies or refining the existing processes.
• Validate & track action plans, escalate issues as required and document the control test artifacts and findings.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the issues and challenges facing our business partners while collaborating with them on acceptable solutions.
• Work independently and with user groups to resolve questions, assess user needs, and recommend change to the CTO/Business partner functions to promote continuous improvement and mature our CTO functions.
• Engage and work with multiple stakeholders - front line business groups, risk program aligned functions and IRM teams for driving the objectives of risk and control programs.
• Instill and drive proactive risk culture, operational excellence, and efficiencies.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the issues and challenges facing our business partners while collaborating with them on acceptable solutions.
• Act as an internal consultant and be a single point of contact to provide monitoring, guidance, direction, and clarification relating to CTO Governance to all levels of management.
• Demonstrate the ability to handle multiple assignments while continuing to meet our business partners’ needs.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify and implement process improvement/automation opportunities.
• Support risk activities being driven from all lines of defense (Technology Risk, Corporate Risk, Internal Audit) for the team/business partners.
• Bachelor's degree or higher. Relevant certifications will be an advantage (CISA, CRISC).
• Relevant experience in technology risk & control domains covering controls testing / evaluation, compliance, internal audit, risk management etc.
• Experience in automation / advanced excel / reporting will be an advantage.
• General knowledge of industry standards and best practices around control evaluations / testing, internal audit and risk management processes.
• Experience assessing control design and performance through testing, audit or Risk Control Self-Assessment practices
• Experience assessing processes, procedures and identifying controls
• Experience in assessing risk, reviewing risk ratings, identifying control gaps and determining the appropriate evaluation methodology
• Knowledge/ working experience in RCSA/COSO/COBIT frameworks.

Posting End Date: 

2 May 2025

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

Applicants with Disabilities

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