Lead Project Manager - Regulatory Projects

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Project Manager (Regulatory Change Initiatives) who will be responsible for managing the Business Solutions & Enablement team within I&P CIB Front Office COO group, including team performance, deliveries, and functional oversight. The role would require the manager to be dynamic and independently manage & execute end-to-end delivery of key projects across the COO organization. The candidate will be expected to actively participate in global team discussions, hiring activities, projects/process enhancement plans and encourage creative thinking amongst the team.

In this role, you will:

• Demonstrate strong experience delivering regulatory change projects within financial services, with the ability to understand regulatory requirements and translate them into actionable business, process and technology changes.
• Lead or participate in larger efforts to independently manage sub-program components of high complexity within change management and contribute to project plans and budgets, work with users to understand complex problems and bring issues to resolution in accordance with change management timelines
• Bring a strong Business Analysis mindset, with experience translating business problems and regulatory requirements into requirements, process flows, current/future-state designs, acceptance criteria and implementation outcomes.
• Manage initiatives involving both technology and process change, working effectively across Business, Operations, Technology, Compliance, Legal, Risk and other relevant functions.
• Demonstrate a high degree of ownership and accountability, proactively driving plans, dependencies, risks, issues and decisions rather than operating primarily as a project coordinator.
• Work with multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed teams in a matrix environment, building effective relationships and influencing stakeholders even where there is no direct reporting relationship.
• Review and analyze moderately complex business organizational systems and navigation to anticipate change impacts while ensuring full understanding of project impacts and comprehensive engagement strategies
• Analyze or resolve resource requirements, project dependencies, planning or progression, financials management, status reporting, effective communications, ongoing risk adaptation, appropriate escalation strategies and implementation while leading team to meet change management deliverables and leveraging solid understanding of policy, methodology and artifact creation
• Collaborate and consult with project coordinators, business partners, project staff, stakeholders, and project leads in times of highly unusual or complex ambiguity and achieve project goals and established timelines in coordination with more experienced management
• Execute matrix managing other project managers and project coordinators for projects

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Project Management and Methodologies, Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• 5+ year of experience in one or a combination of the following: business analysis, project management, change management, implementation, business operations or strategic planning in financial services demonstrated through work or military experience
• 5+ CIB domain–Regulatory Compliance Transformation experience
• Strong understanding about CIB products, trade life cycle
• Ability to work with stakeholders to interpret requirements, present options for meeting needs, and ultimately develop solution to their satisfaction
• Convert business problem statements into cost effective, scalable, reliable & user-friendly solutions
• Maintain good understanding of external trends impacting the function, guides others to consider implications and adapt
• Lead meetings, drive agendas forward and empower decisions
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to tailor communications to the intended audience
• Ability to lead multiple high risk / impact global CIB projects seamlessly, i.e., able to navigate critical challenges, maximize capacity, and provide oversight and guidance on complex initiatives

Job Expectations:

Change mindset and collaboration:

• Leads & partners on change initiatives across the division in a seamless manner, collaborating with global stakeholders; facilitate discussions with leaders and subject matter experts to investigate and solve complex problems
• Identify opportunities for increasing operational efficiencies, perform root cause analysis to propose ideas that improve front to back processing across businesses, leading cross-functional long-term strategic goals
• Partners with teams to operationalize regulatory adherence, implement process controls and solve for key issues/needs
• Assists in projects on data interfaces between systems such as defining project scope, data requirements and sources/resources; Participate in projects requiring data cleanups, process improvement analysis and reporting
• Champions integration and partnership across the organization and is able to lead organization-wide efforts to enable collaboration and to celebrate successful partnerships
• Leads and partners with multiple senior stakeholders to execute transformational change initiatives that have an organization-wide impact and provides guidance on risk management and appropriate change interventions
• Enables the planning and implementation of change initiatives across the organization; measures the impact to the business to inform future change strategy
• Helps others navigate across functions and geographies to implement complex change initiatives

Risk & Control Mindset:

• Ensures key risk governance is monitored efficiently per policies and procedures.
• Leads the analysis of monitoring / oversight data across functions; identifies trends and recommends opportunities to strengthen risk and compliance monitoring
• Ensures operational practices follow relevant risk standards, policies and regulations to maintain an effective control environment; partners with stakeholders to escalate risks, respond to issues of non-compliance and supports the function in ensuring controls are maintained
• Collaborates with operational risk teams to log and monitor Issues and Corrective Actions when operational incidents are identified, implements and leads changes in assessment processes, tools, or technologies to improve the accuracy and efficiency of risk assessment

Preferred Experience:

• Prior experience as a Business Analyst and/or Project Manager within regulatory or transformation programs.
• Experience within Corporate & Investment Banking or another complex regulated financial-services environment would be advantageous.
• Demonstrable experience delivering initiatives requiring business, process, data and technology change.
• Experience working with global and cross-functional teams across multiple disciplines and geographies.

Location: Hyderabad

Shift Timing: 1.30 PM IST till 10.30 PM IST

Location: Hyderabad

Shift Timing: 1.30 PM IST till 10.30 PM IST

Posting End Date:

17 Nov 2026

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

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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.

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