Senior Lead Enterprise Risk Officer - Strategy, Planning & Governance (Executive Director)

Wells Fargo & Company; London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Wells Fargo & Company is seeking a Senior Lead Enterprise Risk Officer who will support the International Head of Risk in implementing robust risk management practices. This role involves advising on complex risk programs, leading significant initiatives, and collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure effective governance and risk oversight. If you are an expert in managing enterprise risks and have a track record of strategic leadership, we invite you to apply and join our team in London.

Qualifications

• Experience in Risk Management including Compliance, Operational Risk, and Credit Risk.
• Ability to lead enterprise risk management programs and governance.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the ‘Strategic, Model and Reputation L1 Risk Oversight’ coverage area.
• Guide the organization on governance and reporting to the Board.
• Deliver long-term solutions and mentor virtual teams.

Skills

Risk Management

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Compliance knowledge

Leadership

Education

Relevant work experience or educational background in Risk Management

Job description

About this role:

As a member of the International Risk Strategy, Planning & Governance (‘SP&G’) team, the Senior Lead Enterprise Risk Officer will support the International Head of Risk SP&G by leading the ‘Strategic, Model and Reputation L1 Risk Oversight’ coverage area of the SP&G team primarily and will support any other coverage area as required by the Head of the SP&G team.

You will also support the International Head of Risk SP&G, the CRO, and members of the wider risk leadership team in implementing the risk management program and leading key aspects of the International Risk SP&G annual plan that seeks to drive a holistic approach to risk management oversight.

In this role, you will:

• Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence enterprise risk, governance, reporting programs, plans, specifications, resources, and long term goals for highly complex business corporate governance risk programs and technical needs across multiple front lines with high risk for Enterprise Risk.
• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges for governance and reporting programs companywide.
• Deliver solutions that are long term, large scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking, and coordination of highly complex activities and guidance to others.
• Provide vision, direction and expertise to more experienced leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions that are large-scale cross functional or companywide strategies.
• Lead projects and mentor virtual teams, design, develop and deliver training.
• Guide and direct the organization in terms of policies, effectiveness of companywide initiative execution, and reporting to the Board.
• Engage and strategize with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership.
• Partner with managers to deliver risk reporting to executive management, committees, and Board of Directors and assists in development of actionable insights.
• Maintain internal partnership with the business and other business units, Audit, Legal, regulators, and industry partners on risk related topics.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Risk Management (Compliance, Financial Crimes, Operational Risk, Audit, Legal, Credit Risk, Market Risk) or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• Experience in reviewing and challenging capital and liquidity submissions such as ICARA.
• Experience of leading enterprise risk management programs.
• Experience in model risk governance, strategic risk oversight, and reputation risk oversight.
• Working knowledge of the key risk management concepts and techniques
• Able to read, digest and comprehend regulatory texts with ease.
• Experience in financial services / lending businesses.
• Experience in projects or processes involving multiple disciplines within an organisation.
• Exceptional organisational, analytical and documentation skills.
• Must be able to work independently, be solutions focused, positively collaborate and lead others in a fast-paced team environment.
• Self-starter and able to identify and deliver continuous improvement.

Posting End Date:

9 Jul 2025

*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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