About this Role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Regulatory Relations Specialist on the Wholesale Regulatory Relations Team, specifically in London. The Wholesale RR team is responsible for supporting regulatory engagements for Wells Fargo, including, but not limited to, regulatory examinations, supervisory meetings, information requests, and responses to regulatory findings. The role is responsible for ensuring an effective and efficient regulatory engagement process and critical regulatory interactions. The Lead RR Specialist supports senior management to set strategy for the regulatory engagements pertaining to the efforts managed by these businesses, and assures connectivity across regional, legal entity and/or enterprise functions in accordance with enterprise regulatory relations strategy, policy, and related procedures. The role manages relevant supporting processes, establishes appropriate communications protocols, and programs, and ensures transparency.

The role will be visible, demanding, and rewarding, interacting regularly with senior business and functional leaders, members of governance committees and the Regulatory Relations leadership team.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and advise on complex and broadly impactful regulatory relations strategy, governance, communications, and interactions, including those that are cross functional, large-scale, or which may include multiple regulatory agencies
• Review and analyze complex, multi-faceted, larger scale or longer-term regulatory approaches and engagements that require in-depth evaluation of multiples factors, including technical challenges, intangibles, or unprecedented factors
• Make decisions in complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, regulations, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that influence and lead broader work team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
• Strategically collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and mid-level to senior managers to resolve issues and achieve goals, integrating approach for matters which cross functions or regulatory agencies
• Research and assess internal and external regulatory environment to identify and report on themes, emerging trends, and risks, sharing insights with team and leadership to resolve concerns

Work with partners to aggregate and report on regulatory actions for key stakeholders including executive leadership, the board of directors, and regulators to ensure consistency with strategy and approach

Required Qualifications

• Experience in Regulatory Relations or Risk Management, includes Regulatory Relations, Compliance, Financial Crimes, Operational Risk, Audit, Legal, Credit Risk, Market Risk, IT Systems Security, Business Process Management, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, education

Desired Qualifications

• Experience evaluating and providing timely contributions to consistent, accurate and high-quality reports to stakeholders including senior leadership, and regulators
• Prior experience working for a regulatory body would be desirable
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to reporting on regulatory exams, information requests, and related activities.
• Knowledge and understanding of the full regulatory engagement lifecycle and the role regulatory relations plays in the end-to-end process.
• Ability to challenge, while exercising sound judgement and professionalism, in order to achieve consistency, quality and drive efficiency
• Experience in business writing to optimize business-related documentation, such as committee and forum materials and communications tied to regulatory issue progression, that provides concise and ease of consumption for senior leaders and regulators. 
• Excellent verbal communications skills.

Posting End Date: 

*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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