In this role, you will:
- Lead or participate in moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within business and contribute to large-scale, cross-functional planning related to mitigation of current and emerging business risk issues and concerns
- Assess, analyze, and design moderately complex controls, protocols, and approaches with respect to risk mitigation and the control environment, including ensuring effective planning for sustainability, ongoing control adherence, reporting, measurement, technology impacts, and monitoring
- Independently make decisions and resolve moderately complex issues while leveraging solid understanding of the business’s functional area or products, operations, and regulatory environment; facilitate decision-making and issue resolution, and support implementation of developed solutions and plans; lead peers and key business partners to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
- Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers to address current and emerging risks associated with business activities and operations, and provide guidance or support in interpreting, developing, and implementing risk-mitigating strategies
- Partner with peers and the business in interactions with external parties to support appropriateness and timeliness of response, and effectiveness of communications and materials
- May serve as a mentoror subject matter expertfor lower-level staff
- Perform secondary reviews of customized due diligence risk assessments
- Conduct customer risk reviews and approvals on customized due diligence assessments
Required Qualifications:
- 4+ 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
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with Financial Crimes
- CAMS or Wells Fargo AML Sanctions Credentials Program Certified (WFAMSC)
- Industry knowledge or subject matter expertise with cannabis,professional service providers, or bearer shares.
- Strong writing skills with an ability to effectively document financial crimes risk, mitigating factors and provide a risk determination
- Experience with Anti-Money Laundering (AML)/Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)
- Experience with Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) or Unusual Activity Report (UAR) review and writing
- Experience in conducting investigative research, root cause analysis and consulting on transactions, suspicious situations, policy violations, referrals, customers, and related parties that present moderate to high risk, or complexity
- Experience in reviewing and analyzing findings to determine level of risk
- Ability to apply knowledge and independent judgement in various risk management practices
- Experience in preparing appropriate documentation and reporting to management
- Experience in assisting with writing corrective action plans and assist in managing change to prevent and mitigate risk
- Knowledge and understanding of process flow or procedure
- Ability to coordinate completion of multiple tasks and meet time frames
- Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under in a complex environment
- Intermediate Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, and Excel
- Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
- Experience in informing peers, line of business and other partners on findings
- Experience in audit, testing and/or quality assurance.
Job Expectations:
- This position offers a hybrid work schedule
- Willingness to work on-site at the posted location
- Visa sponsorship is not available for this position
Pay Range
$84,000.00 - $164,400.00
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit 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
17 Jul 2025
Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.