Director of Product Control (CIB)

About this role:

The Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Product Control for Wells Fargo's division is in need of a critical leader who is responsible for overseeing financial integrity and risk management across all CIB businesses: Markets, Banking, and Commercial Real Estate (CRE). This professional will partner closely with Front Office, Risk, and Finance leadership to ensure accurate P&L attribution, balance sheet integrity, daily P&L (comprehensive and Clean), and compliance with Wells Fargo's policies, U.S. GAAP, and regulatory standards.

This leader will drive a robust control framework, enable business growth, and contribute to Wells Fargo's strategic priorities of risk excellence, operational efficiency, and long-term value creation.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the Product Control function across CIB, managing senior product controllers covering Markets, Banking, and CRE.
• Serve as a strategic partner to CIB leadership, supporting business growth while upholding Wells Fargo's strong risk and control culture.
• Contribute to Wells Fargo's and CIB's transformation agenda by championing technology, data, and process improvements across Product Control.
• Ensure accurate and timely daily and monthly P&L reporting, balance sheet substantiation, and appropriate P&L attribution across all CIB products.
• Partner with the Front Office and Risk on new product assessments, ensuring appropriate control frameworks are in place.
• Build and maintain a strong risk and control environment in line with Wells Fargo's risk management framework and expectations from key regulators (e.g., OCC, FRB, FDIC).
• Act as a key liaison for regulatory and audit inquiries related to valuation, P&L attribution, and control processes, ensuring transparency and proactive issue management.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing Product Control team, fostering an inclusive and collaborative culture that aligns with Wells Fargo's values.
• Drive initiatives to standardize, automate, and optimize Product Control processes, leveraging technology and data to improve accuracy and efficiency.
• Collaborate with stakeholders in Finance, Risk, Technology, and the businesses to enhance the control framework, reporting capabilities, and analytical insights.
• Manage and develop two or more specialized teams of managers and individual contributors responsible for highly complex, higher risk financial advisory services impacting one more Business Lines companywide
• Focus on delivering cross functional solutions for the business groups based on financial research and economic research that may have critical impact on the long-term business performance
• Identify opportunities for efficient and effective support in providing key finance services such as management reporting, product pricing, research for key metric forecasting, validation and support various financial viability assessments
• Supervise the success of large, companywide complex projects and initiatives
• Lead finance team by making strategic decisions to resolve issues with high critical impact in order to bring success to the enterprise
• Provide guidelines for compliance and risk management requirements for supported area and works with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
• Collaborate with and influence all levels of professionals including senior leadership
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources to ensure commitments are met and align with strategic objectives in Finance
• Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy

• 8+ years of Finance experience or equivalent experience demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of management or leadership experience

• 15+ years of progressive experience in Product Control, Finance, or Risk within a large Corporate & Investment Bank.
• Deep expertise in financial products, particularly across Markets.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, fair value accounting, regulatory frameworks (e.g., Basel, CCAR), and valuation principles.
• Proven leadership skills with experience managing large, geographically distributed teams.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Track record of successfully managing complex control environments and driving transformation

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
• This position does not offer VISA sponsorship

• 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