About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Control Management Specialist.

In this role, you will:

• Participate in identifying, assessing, managing, and mitigating current and emerging risk exposures within Control Management functional area.
• Provide risk management consulting to support the business in designing and implementing risk mitigation strategies, business processes, and business controls.
• Monitor moderately complex business specific programs and provide risk management consulting to support the business in designing and implementing risk mitigation strategies.
• Monitor, measure, evaluate, and report on the impact of decisions and controls to the relevant business group or functional area.
• Provide guidance to business groups on the development, implementation, and monitoring of business specific programs to identify, assess, and mitigate risk.
• Collaborate with relevant business group to identify current and emerging risks associated with business activities and operations.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Risk Management, Control Management, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Individual contributor role focusing on performing evidence based control evaluations by conducting various evidence gathering activities.
• Design, maintain and execute the control evaluation scripts, identify control deficiencies, document and escalate potential issues to appropriate stakeholders.
• Validate & track action plans, escalate issues as required and document the control test artifacts and findings.
• Perform control evaluations for moderate to complex engagements, challenge status-quo and identify opportunities to add efficiencies or refining the existing processes.
• Engage and work with multiple stakeholders - front line business groups, risk program aligned functions and IRM teams for driving the objectives of risk and control programs.
• Instill and drive proactive risk culture, operational excellence and efficiencies.

Job Expectations:

• Bachelor's degree or higher. Relevant certifications will be an advantage.
• Overall experience of 8+ years with 5 years of relevant experience in Financial Services industry and / or risk & control domains covering operational risk, controls testing / evaluation, compliance, internal audit, risk management etc.
• Experience in automation / advanced excel / reporting will be an advantage.
• General knowledge of industry standards and best practices around control evaluations / testing, internal audit and risk management processes.
• Experience creating test questions or test scripts.
• Experience assessing control design and performance through testing, audit or Risk Control Self-Assessment practices.
• Experience assessing processes, procedures and identifying controls.
• Experience in assessing risk, reviewing risk ratings, identifying control gaps and determining the appropriate evaluation methodology.

Responsibilities

• Individual contributor role focusing on performing evidence based control evaluations by conducting various evidence gathering activities.
• Design, maintain and execute the control evaluation scripts, identify control deficiencies, document and escalate potential issues to appropriate stakeholders.
• Validate & track action plans, escalate issues as required and document the control test artifacts and findings.
• Perform control evaluations for moderate to complex engagements, challenge status-quo and identify opportunities to add efficiencies or refining the existing processes.
• Engage and work with multiple stakeholders - front line business groups, risk program aligned functions and IRM teams for driving the objectives of risk and control programs.
• Instill and drive proactive risk culture, operational excellence and efficiencies.

Essential Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or higher. Relevant certifications will be an advantage
• Overall experience of 8+ years with 5 years of relevant experience in Financial Services industry and / or risk & control domains covering operational risk, controls testing / evaluation, compliance, internal audit, risk management etc.
• Experience in automation / advanced excel / reporting will be an advantage.
• General knowledge of industry standards and best practices around control evaluations / testing, internal audit and risk management processes.
• Experience creating test questions or test scripts
• Experience assessing control design and performance through testing, audit or Risk Control Self-Assessment practices
• Experience assessing processes, procedures and identifying controls
• Experience in assessing risk, reviewing risk ratings, identifying control gaps and determining the appropriate evaluation methodology

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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