In this role, you will:
- Perform a variety of operational tasks for complex institutional trades or process extensive knowledge of systems
- Provide ideas for improving or implementing processes
- Perform moderately complex duties such as processing, researching inquires, and reconciling transactions
- Review time sensitive documents
- Provide training or work direction to less experienced staff
- Support audit requirements within the process
- Address compliance and corporate governance issues for the department
- Lead or participate in projects
- Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
- Interact with internal and external customers as per prescribed process or procedure
- Identify and drive process re-engineering or transformation opportunities within the process
- Receive direction from leaders and exercise independent judgment while developing the knowledge to understand function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements
Required Qualifications:
- 4+ years of Institutional Investment Operations experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Desired Qualifications:
- MBA or an advanced degree (or equivalent experience).
- 4+ years FX Settlements experience with a top-tier bank, including 1-2 years in a supervisory role.
- Good understanding about OPICS, Bswift, SWIFT and other industry standard applications
- Strategic thinking and good business judgment.
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to establish credibility and strong partnership with business partners and other support functions.
- Comfortable to work in matrix organization.
- Strong organizational and project management skills with demonstrated ability to manage expectations and deliver on commitments.
- Must be a team player with a high degree of flexibility, working in a deadline-driven and fast-paced environment including shifts (majorly supporting US business)
- Excellent presentation skills, effective written and verbal communication skills, should be comfortable dealing with senior management.
- Proactive control and risk management, addressing gaps in processes and escalating issues to benefit the business and clients in a dynamic environment.
- Ability to successfully influence many different groups and individuals to deliver high quality and timely deliverables.
- Ability to work independently in a dynamic and rapidly changing environment and manage multiple priorities.
- Experience working with senior leaders straddling across Technology, Operations and Strategy in partnership with global teams.
Job Expectations:
Specializes in FX Settlements process:
- Deliver quality, sustainable and risk compliant solutions that meet or exceed our customers’ and team members’ needs and expectations within the agreed timeline.
- Operate within well-documented end-to-end processes designed to deliver quality solutions that are valuated continuously.
- Focus on continuous improvement and creation of efficiencies by understanding internal and external customer needs andexpectations.
- Determine and address the root cause, in order to eliminate issues, streamline, automate, and innovate to deliver increasingly effective solutions
- Execute responsibilities with precision and reduced error rates
People Leadership Attract, retain and develop top talent:
- Grow & Develop talent.
- Ensure strong focus on training, succession planning, career development, and managing career opportunities.
- Performance management, conduct appraisals, complete action plans for people development.
- Attrition management.
Global stakeholder management:
- Maintain equitable relationship with senior stakeholders, including Operations, Risk & Control, Technology, Learning, Human resources and Support groups.
- Voice at the table – to improve strategy, technology enhancements, prioritization and delivery of agreed deliverables.
- Superior communication skills to articulate business strategies, on-going BAU events, ICTs, Self-Identified Audit opportunities, listing risk events includingmitigating/remediatingactions with business partners to manage control events and take proactive steps to avoid any form of escalations.
Risk & Controls Mindset:
- Compliance with relevant risk standards, policies and regulations to maintain an effective control and regulatory environment.
- Adept at identifying potential risks in operational processes; develops and implements controls to mitigate associated risks
- Responsible for BCP and ICT management.
- Ensure system enforced controls, compensating controls, RCSA, daily recon controls (SOD/MOD/EOD) in place.
- Ensure that the team has effective Quality Check process in place.
Delivery of Strategic Programs:
- Support and manage the delivery of the Firm’s strategic programs in a high quality, cost effective, timely and sustainable manner with risks and issues identified, prioritized, escalated and managed in a timely and open fashion This includes effective resource management (project / people / technology), and all budgetary and economic elements of delivery.
Change Leadership / Re-engineering Initiatives:
- Lead the change initiatives in FX Settlements process in a seamless manner in close partnership with the global stakeholders.
- Identify change opportunities (API feeds, data connectivity between SOR and down-streams, Recon Reports); build case study, secure prioritization & funding, ensure UAT, sprints, deployment and subsequent enhancements which are fit for purpose and are scalable.
- Participate in special projects including process improvement analysis and reporting.
- Partner with Technology and the lines of business, to deep-dive and identify potential opportunities.
15 May 2025
Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.