Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Business Accountability Specialist in Technology as part of Cybersecurity. Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com.
We are seeking a results-driven leader who excels at guiding complex initiatives from concept to successful delivery. This role is responsible for driving critical work forward, proactively managing risk, enabling change across teams, and ensuring outcomes are delivered on time and with measurable impact. The ideal candidate is naturally curious, highly organized, and confident challenging assumptions to uncover risks and clarify priorities.
In this role, you will:
- Act as a Business Execution advisor to leadership to drive performance and initiatives, and develop and implement information delivery or presentations to key stakeholders and senior management
- Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges related to Business Execution that require solid analytical skills, extensive knowledge of Business Execution, and understanding of business, delivering longer term and large scale solutions
- Provide vision, direction, and expertise to senior leadership for implementing innovative and significant business solutions that are large scale and cross organizational
- Lead team meetings or steering committee to facilitate decision making and support implementation of recommendations and plans
- Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across multiple lines of businesses and serve as an experienced advisor to the leadership
- Provide direction to a cross functional team using business expertise
- Drive high-impact initiatives from intake through execution, ensuring alignment to strategic goals and timely completion.
- Anticipate, identify, and mitigate risks, dependencies, and constraints before they impact delivery.
- Ask the right questions to surface ambiguity, challenge thinking, and enable informed decisions at the right time.
- Establish clear outcomes, milestones, and success metrics; maintain momentum and accountability throughout execution.
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration across technical, business, and leadership stakeholders.
- Enable and support change by preparing teams, addressing resistance, and ensuring new capabilities are adopted and sustained.
- Translate complex initiatives into clear plans, narratives, and executive-ready communications.
- Monitor progress, manage tradeoffs, and escalate issues decisively with options and recommendations.
- Continuously improve delivery practices, tools, and ways of working to increase speed, quality, and predictability.
- 7+ 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
- 5+ years of experience leading enterprise or technology-driven initiatives with multiple stakeholders.
- Change enablement expertise, including communication, readiness planning, and adoption support.
- 5+ years of risk and governance experience
- Strong delivery discipline with the ability to move multiple initiatives forward simultaneously.
- Advanced risk and dependency management mindset-comfortable operating in ambiguity and complexity.
- Exceptional critical thinking; known for asking insightful questions that uncover root causes and hidden risks.
- Proven ability to influence without authority and align diverse stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level storytelling.
- Structured, detail-oriented approach balanced with pragmatism and decisiveness.
- Working in environments undergoing transformation, modernization, or operating model change.
- Experience within IT, digital, infrastructure, cybersecurity, or data initiatives (depending on your org).
- Familiarity with Agile, hybrid, or iterative delivery models.
- Available to accommodate PST work hours.
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.
$159,000.00 - $279,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.
- Health benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid time off
- Disability benefits
- Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
- Parental leave
- Critical caregiving leave
- Discounts and savings
- Commuter benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Scholarships for dependent children
- Adoption reimbursement
9 Aug 2026
* Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
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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Skills Required
- 7+ years of risk management, business controls, quality assurance, business operations, compliance, or process experience
- 5+ years of experience leading enterprise or technology-driven initiatives with multiple stakeholders
- Change enablement expertise, including communication, readiness planning, and adoption support
- 5+ years of risk and governance experience
- Available to accommodate PST work hours
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