Senior Lead Financial Crimes Officer - OFAC Sanctions

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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Financial Crimes Officer to join the Global Sanctions Office within Financial Crimes Risk Management. Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com. As a part of Wells Fargo's second line of defense and Independent Risk Management team, the Global Sanctions Office is responsible for implementing and maintaining an effective global sanctions program for the company that complies with all applicable laws, regulations, and regulatory expectations related to Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions. The Senior Lead Financial Crimes Officer is a critical role in helping lead the global OFAC sanctions program execution and ensuring it aligns with both global regulations and internal policies. This role serves the critical function of advising all lines of business—including investment banking, corporate banking, retail banking, and consumer lending—on customer risk, sanctions screening oversight, sanctions escalations, and other sanctions-related matters.

In this role, you will:

• Act as an Economic Sanctions Subject Matter Expert responsible for helping oversee and govern Wells Fargo’s OFAC sanctions program and providing accurate and thoughtful regulatory guidance to business units.

• Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence objectives, plans, specifications, resources, and long-term goals for highly complex business and technical needs across groups and functions.

• Implement and maintain an effective financial crimes program that complies with all applicable laws, regulations, and regulatory expectations including Bank Secrecy Act, Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing, and Global Sanctions.

• Evaluate long-term implications and consequences of strategic business decisions and recommend appropriate alternatives for risk management.

• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the company.

• Deliver solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical thinking, and coordination of highly complex activities and guidance to others.

• Lead implementation of complex initiatives with high risk, generally spanning multiple business lines.

• Provide vision, direction and full knowledge to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions that are large scale companywide strategies.

• Serve as an excellent advisor to leadership.

• Lead risk evaluation and independently challenge existing fundamentals or assumptions while developing alternative approaches, models and solutions to schemes and trends.

• Influence and negotiate with executive management, business heads, and high-level stakeholders.

• Lead initiatives and virtual teams across the organization to deliver companywide business transformations.

• Engage strategically with all levels of professionals and managers across the company.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Financial Crimes, Operational Risk, Fraud, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery, Corruption experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

Desired Qualifications:

• Expert understanding in OFAC sanctions, risks, and typologies, with the ability to apply financial crime requirements to payment flows, cross-border transactions, and correspondent banking.

• Experience working at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, State Department, Commerce Department or a federal financial regulator, a professional services consulting firm, or at a large multinational financial institution.

• Experience with internal bank transaction screening, monitoring, and escalation systems, and how regulatory requirements are operationalized within large financial institutions.

• Experience with the payment’s ecosystem, including major payment rails, messaging, and settlement frameworks (e.g., Fedwire, CHIPS, SWIFT).

• Demonstrated ability to review, analyze, and interpret OFAC licenses, FAQs, and Executive Orders.

• Experience or demonstrated interest in regulatory compliance related to virtual assets, including virtual currency, cryptocurrency, and associated financial crime and sanctions considerations

• Experience leading complex initiatives that require interacting and problem solving with business leaders, legal counsel, or industry groups

• Experience in using advanced Excel or similar software to conduct analytics

• Demonstrated ability to apply OFAC sanctions and financial crime controls to payment flows, including cross‑border transactions, correspondent banking, and screening/escalation decisions

• Experience in conducting sanctions screening oversight, including customer/related party screening & transaction screening and the software systems used to conduct screening is strongly preferred

• Master’s degree in a relevant field or Juris Doctor (JD) strongly preferred

Job Expectations:

• Willingness to work on-site at stated location on the job opening.

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule.

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship. 

Posting Locations:

1753 Pinnacle Dr, Mclean, VA

401 S Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC

401 Las Colinas Blvd, Irving, TX

600 S 4th Street, Minneapolis, MN

800 S Jordan Creek Pkwy, West Des Moines, IA

Virginia– McLean Pay Range: $191,000.00 - 305,000.00 USD Annually

North Carolina – Charlotte Pay Range: $159,000.00 - 254,000.00 USD Annually

Texas – Irving Pay Range: $159,000.00 - 254,000.00 USD Annually

Minnesota – Minneapolis Pay Range: $175,000.00 - 279,000.00 USD Annually

Iowa – West Des Moines Pay Range: $159,000.00 - 254,000.00 USD Annually

Pay Range
 

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.

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

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.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

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