Senior Business Execution Consultant - Legal Third Party Risk Management Initiatives

$84,000 - $179,200/Yr

Wells Fargo - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Business Execution Consultant to join the Legal Third Party Risk Management team. The team's overall primary objective is identifying, evaluating, and mitigating the risks associated with the engagement of Law Firms and Non-Law Firm legal vendors, such as e-Discovery vendors. Failure to effectively assess, manage, and monitor risks related to the use of a third party may result in reputational, legal, regulatory, information security, and financial risk. We are seeking a dynamic individual to lead strategic initiatives critical to our organizational success. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional leadership skills and a proven track record of successfully driving moderate to complex initiatives from conception to execution.

Responsibilities

• Manage strategic initiatives with functional teams to strategize, plan, and execute on Legal Third Party Risk Management team and Third Party programs deliverables.
• Develop actionable plans, track and resolve issues, and implement risk monitoring reporting, report progress and outcomes to leadership, providing insightful analysis and recommendations to inform decision-making.
• Demonstrate thought leadership to strengthen relationships and influence business leaders and stakeholders to drive change.
• Analyze Key Risk Indicator boundary triggers, identify root causes, and devise action plan to remediate.
• Assist with initiatives to mitigate highly complex current and emerging risks requiring in depth evaluation across multiple areas of the enterprise.
• Review and analyze business challenges that require research, evaluation, and selection of alternatives party engagements and identify opportunity for process improvements and control enhancements.
• Collaborate and consult with team leaders in developing project plans, policies and procedures.

Requirements

• 4+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience Managing strategic initiatives with functional teams to strategize, plan, and execute on Legal Third Party Risk Management team and Third Party programs deliverables.
• Adequate project management skills including the ability to handle multiple projects concurrently.
• Demonstrated experience in leading cross-functional strategic initiatives.
• Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment where flexibility, collaboration, and adaptability are important.
• Active listener with excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills with ability to interact with executive leadership.
• Strong experience in the creation of strategic implementation, prioritization of initiatives, assigning work, execution, collaboration, management and resolution of risks and issues while ensuring initiative(s) are delivered within agreed timelines.
• Independent thinker who brings initiative, creativity, energy, discipline, and commitment to the role.
• Outstanding leadership, problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills with ability to anticipate risks and opportunities and turn findings into tactical and strategic imperatives.
• Results oriented with outstanding ability to motivate teams and mobilize the resources to accomplish objectives.
• Experience presenting to executive management and ability to articulate key messages around progress, risk, issues, organizational impacts, etc.
• Leverage tools such as MS Project and Sharepoint.
• Advanced Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, and SharePoint) skills.

Benefits

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement