Senior Business Accountability Specialist Model Governance

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About this role:

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.

In this role, you will:

• 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

Required Qualifications:

• 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

Desired Qualifications:

• 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

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule at posted locations.
• Relocation assistance is not available.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.

Locations:

• 401 S Tryon Street Charlotte North Carolina 28202
• 5950 Rice Creek Pkwy Shoreview, MN 55126
• 401 Las Colinas Blvd W Bldg. A Irving Texas 75039
• 800 S Jordan Creek Pkwy West Des Moines Iowa 50266
  
   

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

$77,000.00 - $133,000.00

Posting End Date:

28 Apr 2026

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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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