Job Description
About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a financial crimes professional to join the International Financial Crimes team in APAC. Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojob.com.
In this role, you will:
- Manage and develop a team of individual contributor roles with low to high complexity and risk
- Provide end-to-end investigative support via reviews and approvals for the APAC GFIU to meet regulatory financial crimes and SAR/STR filing obligations
- Engage stakeholders and internal partners
- Implement and maintain an effective financial crimes program for the company that complies with all applicable laws, regulations, and regulatory expectations including Bank Secrecy Act, Anti-Money Laundering, Counter Terrorist Financing, and Global Sanctions
- Manage procedures, controls, analytics, and trend analysis to ensure proactive identification, prevention, execution, detection, investigation, recovery and reporting of financial crime activity
- Understand the impact of operational risks in relation to processes and controls
- Review and manage confidential information that is associated to cross border information sharing policies and regulatory obligation requirements
- Ensure execution and ongoing management of a mid-size risk based financial crimes program across the enterprise or a risk based financial crimes program across large to mid-size businesses with moderate risk and complexity
- Identify and recommend opportunities for process improvement and risk control development
- Provide thoughtful independent credible challenge internally to supported lines of business, across other Corporate Risk programs, and across the enterprise
- Collaborate with peers, colleagues, and multiple level managers (local and international)
- Manage communication and collaboration with business heads, Legal, Audit, and regulators on risk related topics
- Apply fraud / AML investigational knowledge to maintain the appropriate control and risk mitigation framework across multiple jurisdictions
- Manage high risk processes associated with SAR regulatory requirements, transaction monitoring, Proprietary Watchlists
- Maintain a working relationship with international stakeholders and local law enforcement authorities
- Support control framework design by maintaining process consistency and escalating concerns or issues
Required Qualifications:
- 4+ years of Financial Crimes, Operational Risk, Fraud, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery, Corruption experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education;
- 2+ years of Leadership experience.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with internal audit and/or regulator engagements.
