About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Business Execution Consultant.

In this role, you will:

• Act as a Business Execution advisor to leadership to drive performance and initiatives, and develop and implement information delivery or presentations to key stakeholders and senior management
• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges related to Business Execution that require solid analytical skills, extensive knowledge of Business Execution, and understanding of business, delivering longer term and large scale solutions
• Provide vision, direction, and expertise to senior leadership for implementing innovative and significant business solutions that are large scale and cross organizational
• Lead team meetings or steering committee to facilitate decision making and support implementation of recommendations and plans
• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across multiple lines of businesses and serve as an experienced advisor to the leadership
• Provide direction to a cross functional team using business expertise

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• The individual will be responsible for several high priority deliverables for CIB CAO leadership with the intent to perform a horizontal review on key themes including risk and control framework, capacity, target operating models, and organizational restructures while working directly with senior leaders across the broader organization. This individual will build unique front to back subject matter expertise to assist CIB line of business leads on complex, diverse and challenging strategic initiatives designed to improve operating model, efficiency, controls, and regulatory compliance.
• Partner with teams within and outside of CIB CAO/COO to develop and execute on target operating model
• Convert business problem statements into cost effective, scalable, reliable & user-friendly recommendations
• Lead large scale projects and initiatives within a complex environment, impacting global lines of business
• Identify opportunities for increasing efficiencies with measurable business outcomes and improvements
• Review & tracking of budget & efficiency targets
• Assist LOB managers to ensure ToM (target operating model) aligns to regulatory & risk management priorities
• Review and recommend implementation plan for risk & control policies in alignment with regulatory standards
• Recommend robust governance structures for control oversight, including but not limited to training modules, tracking metrics and regular governance meetings/submissions.
• Support and manage the delivery of the division’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 manner
• Partner with LOB owners to implement projects that solve key regulatory and operational needs
• Possess superior verbal and written communication skills
• Collaborate with senior leaders across the CAO team leads globally to create executive ready presentations
• Present information to persuade, educate, and enhance understanding at all levels
• Drive complex issues and deliverables into effective outcome-oriented conversations
• Lead and facilitate cross-team forums that help identify and solve issues on behalf of CAO leadership
• Liaise with CIB Control, Compliance, Legal, Technology, Finance and functional teams on enterprise initiatives
• Maintain a harmonious relationship with global stakeholders, effectively syndicating on relevant issues, influencing to arrive at the right decisions
• Interact and communicate with the business partners / requestors on a regular basis and effectively manage expectations
• Institute sturdy communication channels with business partners to manage escalations and take proactive steps to avoid any form of escalations
• Assist in onboarding new Shared Services teams including setting up processes, procedures and controls
• Ability to independently drive strategic and global initiatives with minimal guidance, and arrive at decisions working across different levels

Job Expectations:

• MBA or an advanced degree (or equivalent experience)
• 7+ years of capital markets industry with a top tier bank and/ or project management experience is preferable
• Candidates should possess superior verbal and written communication skills, portray great levels of accountability and attention to detail
• Candidates should be able to work effectively in a demanding, fast-paced, dynamic environment, handling multiple tasks and projects concurrently, while maintaining quality, accuracy, and integrity
• Candidates should have experience presenting information to persuade, educate, and enhance understanding at all levels
• Candidates should be able to work in a global team (cross functional across geographies), interact at different levels and handle a wide range of deliverables with varying levels of complexities
• Candidates should be able to influence and drive cultural change, and drive adoption of new processes
• Candidates should have experience in translating business strategies into actionable project roadmaps; proficiency in managing large, multi-year strategic programs and should be skilled in resource management, budget management and timeline adherence
• Candidate should be able to demonstrate high degree of reliability, integrity, and trustworthiness in all areas
• Candidate should be able to take ownership and accountability for responsibilities, business outcomes, and for management of risk exposure
• Candidate should have advanced knowledge of excel & powerpoint and be able to produce impactful executive communication & presentations for senior leadership consumption
• Ability to develop and negotiate solutions to issues with partners or clients including escalations as needed
• Experience with synthesizing data from multiple sources to create persuasive presentations for senior leaders
• Ability to prioritize work, set deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic environment
• Ability to lead and operate collaboratively, execution focused, and results oriented
• Ability to simplify complex and abstract concepts in a clear and precise manner
• Ability to grasp complex business concepts quickly to recommend solutions and provide credible challenges
• Ability to facilitate and lead meetings to reach conclusions, identify tasks, record actions, and achieve results
• Overall cross-collaboration experience required to effectively engage global counterparts
• Demonstrates a high degree of reliability, integrity, and trustworthiness in all areas
• Takes ownership and accountability for responsibilities, business outcomes, and for management of risk exposure
• Perform root cause analysis to propose ideas that improve front to back processing across the trade lifecycle
• Work on Proof of Concepts (POC’s) with third party vendors to determine the path forward on contracts, whilst considering longer term internal strategic solutions

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.

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