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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.
Posting End Date:
30 Jan 2025*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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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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