Lead Business Execution Consultant

About this role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Business Execution Consultant to support Wells Fargo Business Financial Crimes execution and governance across lending and deposit products.

This role will support high-priority initiatives related to Customer Identification Program (CIP), Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Sanctions/OFAC, Beneficial Ownership (BO), issue management, audit readiness, control execution, process improvement, and regulatory execution.

This is an execution-focused role for someone who can bring structure to complex, ambiguous work. The individual will work across business, operations, technology, product, risk, control, and compliance partners to clarify problems, document decisions, identify risks, define ownership, and drive work to completion.

The ideal candidate is a strong business executor who can synthesize fragmented information, ask the right questions, create clear leadership-ready materials, and turn complex Financial Crimes topics into practical action plans. This person should be comfortable operating in a highly regulated environment where speed, accuracy, traceability, and risk awareness all matter.

A successful candidate will be able to:

• Create clarity from ambiguity by organizing complex problems into facts, risks, decisions, owners, and next steps
• Drive work forward by helping teams move from discussion to decision to execution
• Connect information across teams, documents, data, meetings, and stakeholder feedback
• Translate complex Financial Crimes, business, technology, and control topics into clear business narratives
• Create strong PowerPoint materials, one-pagers, decision summaries, issue summaries, action trackers, and leadership updates
• Identify risks, blockers, process gaps, ownership gaps, missing requirements, and unresolved questions early
• Ask direct, thoughtful questions to validate assumptions and support sound decisions
• Balance speed, accuracy, and risk awareness in a highly regulated environment

In this role, you will

• Lead and support cross-functional Financial Crimes initiatives across business, operations, technology, product, risk, control, and compliance partners
• Support execution and governance for CIP, CDD, Sanctions/OFAC, Beneficial Ownership, issue management, audit readiness, and related control activities
• Synthesize information from multiple sources to determine key facts, risks, decisions, impacts, and next steps
• Create leadership-ready materials, including PowerPoint presentations, executive summaries, decision documents, issue summaries, status updates, and action trackers
• Facilitate decision making by clarifying the problem, options, owners, required evidence, impacts, and recommended path forward
• Perform assessments through fact finding, data review, stakeholder discussions, process review, and document analysis
• Track and maintain clear connections between facts, decisions, owners, actions, risks, and supporting evidence
• Collaborate with partners to identify gaps, resolve blockers, escalate risks, and drive progress
• Influence, guide, and support less experienced Strategy and Execution staff within the group

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, Strategic Planning, Business Operations, or related experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 1+ year experience supporting cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
• 1+ year experience creating executive summaries, PowerPoint materials, status updates, decision-support materials, or stakeholder-ready recommendations
• 1+ year experience synthesizing complex information and translating it into a clear business story, recommendation, or action plan

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting Financial Crimes, BSA/AML, KYC, CIP, CDD, Sanctions/OFAC, Beneficial Ownership, or related regulatory execution
• Experience supporting lending, deposits, onboarding, account maintenance, servicing, business banking, or related financial services processes
• Strong execution mindset with the ability to create tangible deliverables and drive work to completion
• Ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-changing environments with incomplete information
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to review data, identify patterns, validate assumptions, and summarize business impacts
• Ability to clarify ownership, identify blockers, escalate risks, and drive accountability across teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex topics for different audiences
• Comfortable asking direct questions, challenging unclear requirements, and validating assumptions in a professional, risk-aware way
• Experience supporting audit readiness, issue management, control execution, remediation, regulatory requests, or governance routines
• Proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

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.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.