Senior Business Accountability Specialist Model Governance

Wells Fargo & Company•Shoreview, MN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Business Accountability Specialist to join the Consumer Banking and Lending (CBL) Model Governance team, supporting the firm’s Model Risk Management (MRM) framework. This role plays a critical part in ensuring adherence to Model Risk Management policies, standards, and control requirements across the business. The ideal candidate is highly process-oriented, analytically curious, and comfortable challenging assumptions, assessing tools, and probing model usage and governance processes. This is a governance and risk role with strong exposure to policy interpretation, control testing, issue management, and cross-functional partnership. This team operates in a fast-changing environment with increasing model usage and regulatory focus.

Requirements

4+ years of risk management, business controls, quality assurance, business operations, compliance, or process experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Nice To Haves

Experience working with Model Risk Management policies or related regulatory guidance
Experience in standards and controls, including control design, assessment, monitoring, testing, and self-assurance activities
Background in audit, testing, or review activities, with attention to detailed policy and procedural requirements
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to assess tools, understand how they function, and challenge inputs and outcomes
Project management experience, including managing dependencies, identifying roadblocks, escalating issues, and coordinating across teams
Strong collaboration and partnership skills, with the ability to influence without authority
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong attention to detail and commitment to high-quality work product
Self-driven with a passion for continuous learning and adapting to ongoing change
Ability to think strategically while pivoting between multiple priorities, maintaining focus on outcomes and risk mitigation

Responsibilities

Provide subject-matter expertise on Model Risk Management policies, standards, and program requirements, advising business stakeholders and identifying opportunities for improved risk management and governance processes
Ensure adherence to Model Risk Management policies, procedures, standards, and control requirements through ongoing engagement, review, and challenge
Assess tools and frameworks to determine appropriate model classifications, including evaluating how tools operate, their inputs, processing logic, and outputs
Review, analyze, and challenge model-related activities, asking critical questions and probing underlying assumptions to ensure alignment with policy intent
Identify, escalate, and track model, tool, governance, or policy-related issues; partner with leadership and key stakeholders to drive timely resolution
Lead or participate in moderately complex initiatives tied to model governance, risk mitigation, issue remediation, and control enhancement, contributing to larger cross-functional efforts
Assess, analyze, and help design controls, protocols, and governance approaches to support a strong control environment, including sustainability planning, ongoing monitoring, reporting, measurement, and technology impacts
Independently resolve moderately complex issues using a solid understanding of business operations, products, and the regulatory environment, while facilitating decision-making and solution implementation
Collaborate with peers, business partners, and mid-level management to address current and emerging risks, providing guidance on policy interpretation and risk-mitigating strategies
Partner with business and risk stakeholders in interactions with external parties, supporting timely and appropriate responses, and ensuring accuracy and effectiveness of communications and materials
Navigate a dynamic and evolving risk environment, managing change, prioritizing effectively, and applying strong problem-solving skills to non-routine issues