Senior Control Management Specialist

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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Control Management Specialist within the Commercial Client Insights and Product Management Control team. The responsibilities of this role will include risk identification and assessment, control and issue management, control design and evaluation, control reporting and governance, and other control programs. In addition, this role also includes designing controls in partnership with business owners, including effectiveness measures, implementation support, validation of effectiveness post implementation; and controls evaluation based on defined triggers.

In this role, you will:

• Participate in identifying, assessing, managing, and mitigating current and emerging risk exposures within Control Management functional area.
• Provide risk management consulting to support the business in designing and implementing risk mitigation strategies, business processes, and business controls.
• Monitor moderately complex business specific programs and provide risk management consulting to support the business in designing and implementing risk mitigation strategies.
• Monitor, measure, evaluate, and report on the impact of decisions and controls to the relevant business group or functional area.
• Provide guidance to business groups on the development, implementation, and monitoring of business specific programs to identify, assess, and mitigate risk.
• Collaborate with relevant business group to identify current and emerging risks associated with business activities and operations.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Risk Management or Control Management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education.

Desired Qualifications:

• Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment.
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to exercise independent judgment to identify and resolve problems.    
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex analytical findings into executive level communications.    
• Advanced Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint) skills     
• Ability to track and monitor project progress, identify project and process gaps, recommend controls and communicate progress to business leaders. Experience with Wells Fargo risk systems such as Shared Risk Platform (SHRP), Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA), or Control Risk Analysis System (CRAS+).
• Ability to be flexible and adjust plans quickly to meet changing business needs.
• Experience working in a large enterprise environment.
• Knowledge and understanding of audit, regulatory compliance, or risk management.
• Ability to identify risk factors and ensure enactment of appropriate controls.
• Strong root cause analysis skills.
• Ability to partner as a team member resource.
• Ability to turn preliminary or ambiguous information, ideas, or problems into well-defined plans and solutions.
• Ability to quickly learn business operations and processes.
• Ability to learn and assimilate information from multiple people and sources.
• Ability to gather, organize, and interpret data.

Job Expectations:

• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time.
• Hybrid work schedule. Must be able to work from one of the approved job posting locations three (3) days in office & two (2) days remote.
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

The Control Functions adhere to a location strategy, therefore your candidacy may be determined based on your current location. Remote work locations are not available for these roles, so if you are not in a location listed on the posting, you must commit to self-relocation within an agreed upon timeframe.

Job Location:

• 144039 550 S Tryon,  Charlotte, NC

• 101969 A Building, Chandler Campus

**Required location(s) listed above. **Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Posting End Date: 

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

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Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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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