Lead Enterprise Risk Officer

About this role:

Wells Fargo Bank International (WFBI) is looking for an Enterprise Risk lead in the International Risk Strategy, Planning & Governance (SP&G) team.

As a key member of the International Risk Strategy, Planning & Governance (SP&G) team, you’ll work closely with the International Risk SP&G Senior Manager, and other leaders across International IRM to drive a holistic risk management approach, ensuring strong governance and oversight.

This is an opportunity to shape policies, drive strategic initiatives, and play a pivotal role in the International SPG team

In this role, you will:

• Participate and develop, implement and monitor risk based governance programs to identify, assess and mitigate risks across lines of business and risk domains in multiple risk categories for Enterprise Risk
• Review moderately complex business, operational, or technical challenges that require an in depth evaluation of variable factors
• Provide oversight, develop, implement, monitor and challenge for corporate governance risk programs and manage reporting
• Lead co-ordination of new business initiatives risk assessment through interaction and engagement with all risk leads, challenging risk assessments to support the relevant International LE CRO sign off on behalf of the International legal entities across EMEA and APAC
• Utilize risk knowledge to issue resolutions for moderate to high risk companywide projects and initiatives
• Develop, implement, monitor and interpret, risk based governance programs, create new policies and guidelines
• Resolve moderately complex issues and lead team to meet risk area, projects and process deliverables, while leveraging solid understanding of the risk policies, procedures and compliance requirements
• Lead and manage multiple concurrent initiatives
• Guide and direct the organization in terms of policies, effectiveness of companywide initiative execution, and reporting to the Board
• Partner with Risk leads to coordinate risk reporting to executive management, committees, and Board of Directors
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Risk Management (Compliance, Financial Crimes, Operational Risk, Audit, Legal, Credit Risk, Market Risk) or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, education
• Thorough and extensive knowledge of the regulatory environment.
• High-level ability to analyse and interpret data and create comprehensible insight for teams and stakeholders;
• Expertise in key risk management concepts and techniques
• Experience in enterprise risk management programs.
• Experience in financial services / lending and markets businesses.
• Experience in projects or processes involving multiple disciplines within an organisation. 
• Exceptional organisational, analytical and documentation skills.
• Must be able to work independently, be solutions focused, positively collaborate and lead others in a fast-paced team environment.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills, with an ability to communicate effectively;
• Self-starter and able to identify and deliver continuous improvement.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present to a nontechnical audience;
• Highly organized with well-honed time- management skills and ability to prioritize;
• Unquestionable ethics

Posting End Date: 

*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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