Senior Control Management Specialist

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About this Role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Control Management Specialist to join the Chief Operating Office Non-Operations Control Horizontal BCM team. In this dynamic role, you will collaborate with all COO Non-Ops Line of Business (LOB) Control teams and business partners to strengthen risk management practices. You will play a critical part in enabling our stakeholders to meet and exceed key risk program objectives, driving consistency and excellence across the organization. The COO Non-Operations Control Horizontal BCM team is dedicated to embedding strong risk and business continuity practices across Wells Fargo's corporate functions. This team works horizontally across multiple business areas to ensure consistency, resilience, and compliance, helping the organization stay prepared for disruptions and maintain critical operations.

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

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

• Direct experience with Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) program and associated compliance requirements, including alignment to risks and Ability to review RCSA program guidance and artifacts, applying guidance to material assessments to ensure adherence by Business Groups
• Strong understanding of enterprise risk frameworks, methodologies, and control programs, including RCSA, risk identification, inherent/residual risk assessment, control design, and issue management.
• Knowledge and understanding of risk applications such as Shared Risk Platform (SHRP), Navigator and ServiceNow (SNOW)
• Knowledge of internal controls and internal control policy
• Experience conducting and summarizing compliance and/or operational risk assessments
• 2+ years of experience writing or updating business documents (e.g., BRDs, testing matrices, user guides, procedures), or editing and writing content for corporate intranets, internal communications, training materials, and other internal channels
• 2+ years of experience writing relational database queries for stored procedures, query optimization, and performance tuning
• Experience in QA, compliance, audit, and post-transactional testing with a commitment to accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strong understanding of enterprise risk framework and methodologies, with experience in risk/control identification and assessment
• Ability to analyze and synthesize data from multiple sources, translate metrics into compelling business narratives, and deliver succinct, actionable summaries that support strategic decision-making.
• Skilled in developing executive-ready materials and visuals (e.g., PowerPoint) that simplify complex topics.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication abilities, with proven capability to present, defend, and support observations to senior leaders and executives.
• Comfortable engaging directly with executives, senior leaders, and subject matter experts to drive initiatives and deliver high-impact insights.

• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time.
• Hybrid work schedule. Must be able to work from one of the approved job posting locations three (3) days in office & two (2) days remote.
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

• 141753-NC-Three Wells Fargo Center, Charlotte
• 150496-IA-West Des Moines Campus