Lead Business Execution Consultant

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking an individual who would be responsible for hands-on development/configuration of data automation solutions using Xceptor and support the business enablement team initiatives; assisting with testing; provide application support; reporting and highlighting key challenges including ‘go/no-go’ decisions; and impacts to delivery timelines, bottlenecks and control gaps. The role would require direct engagement with senior leaders across global COO teams.

In this role, you will:

• Lead cross functional teams to strategize, plan, and execute a variety of programs, services and initiatives
• Drive accountability for assigned initiatives, limit risk exposure, and create efficiencies as appropriate
• Review strategic approaches and effectiveness of support function and business performance
• Perform assessments through fact finding and data requiring creative approaches to solving complex issues, and develop appropriate solutions or recommendations
• Make decisions in highly complex and multifaceted situations requiring solid understanding of business group's functional area or products, facilitate decision making and issue resolution, and support implementation of developed solutions and plans
• Collaborate and consult with members of the Business Execution team and team leaders to drive strategic initiatives
• Influence, guide and lead less experienced Strategy and Execution staff within the group

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ 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

Required Qualifications for Europe, Middle East & Africa only:

• Experience in Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• MBA/equivalent advanced degree, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience in teams developing data engineering / automation solutions, pre go-live checks and quality assurance
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in financial services; experience with Xceptor
• Xceptor and SQL skillsets are a must. Experience with both waterfall and agile approaches to project delivery using Jira is good to have
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with attention to detail
• Candidates should be able to work effectively in a demanding, fast-paced, dynamic environment, handling multiple tasks and projects concurrently, while maintaining quality, accuracy and integrity
• Candidates should have experience presenting information to persuade, educate, and enhance understanding at all levels with the ability to develop and negotiate solutions with partners or clients including escalations as needed
• Candidates should be able to work in a global team, interact at different levels and handle a wide range of deliverables with varying levels of complexities with focus on execution and result
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills to create persuasive PowerPoint presentations
• Experience in identifying and driving process improvements in complex environments
• Ability to effectively multi-task and successfully work on several unrelated projects at the same time

Job Expectations:

• Strong working knowledge of Xceptor, SQL and Agile JIRA framework
• Experience in drafting & developing meaningful metric based solutions suiting business purpose, and driving decision making
• Able to interface between business and technology teams, work collaboratively and communicate effectively with stakeholders in IT, Operations, Product Control and the Business.
• Collate test results in presentable format, with pass/fail & subsequent go/no-go decision recommendations
• Lead discussions with product owners, with the aim to drive a collaborative discussion for fixes

Executive Communication:

• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate with senior leaders across LOBs globally to create executive ready presentations, including presentation of information and data to persuade, educate, and drive solutions
• Drive complex issue management and deliverables into effective outcome-oriented conversations
• Institute sturdy communication channels with business partners to support and manage the delivery of the division’s strategic programs

Change mindset and collaboration:

• Collaborate on change initiatives across the division in a seamless manner; facilitate discussions with leaders and subject matter experts to investigate and solve complex problems
• Ability to think creatively with respect to driving seamless execution of UAT testing, with potential automation and standardization ideas
• Assist in projects on data interfaces between systems such as defining project scope, data requirements and sources/resources and drive quality assurance across these projects

Risk & Control Mindset:

• Assess, review, manage and mitigate risk by measuring key risk indicators (KRIs) through developing and maintaining the key metrics for business support group
• Ensure operational practices follow relevant risk standards, policies and regulations to maintain an effective control environment
• Collaborate with operational risk teams to log and monitor Issues and Corrective Actions when incidents are identified

About Wells Fargo India: Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a leading global financial services company headquartered in San Francisco (United States). Wells Fargo has offices in over 30 countries and territories. Our business outside of the U.S. mostly focuses on providing banking services for large corporate, government and financial institution clients. We have worldwide expertise and services to help our customers improve earnings, manage risk, and develop opportunities in the global marketplace. Our global reach offers many opportunities for you to develop a career with Wells Fargo. Join our diverse and inclusive team where you will feel valued and inspired to contribute your unique skills and experience. We are looking for talented people who will put our customers at the center of everything we do. Help us build a better Wells Fargo. It all begins with outstanding talent. It all begins with you.

About Wells Fargo India & Philippines: Wells Fargo India & Philippines (I&P) enables global talent capabilities for Wells Fargo & Company, by supporting over half of Wells Fargo's business lines and staff functions across Technology, Business Services, Risk Services and Knowledge Services. I&P operates in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Chennai in India and in Manila, Philippines.

Department Overview: Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) Front Office support group is a cross-functional group of teams that provide support for CB/CIB and the broader Wells Fargo organization. The group comprises of teams supporting business resiliency, business execution, intelligent automation, workflow solutions, data analysis and visualization, risk and governance oversight, and customer support teams.

About the Role: This role is within the I&P CIB Front Office – COO Automation and Document Management team. This group is focused on building creative and dynamic data automation solutions using Xceptor tool across business lines. This role would require the incumbent to provide technology, configuration, testing and support to the team. The individual is expected to independently plan development, write codes, develop data solutions & UAT test cases, deploy and support them. Work with business to understand the requirements, analyze data and suggest metrics which drive decision making, and proactively highlight any potential derailers impacting business. Finally, the candidate will be expected to actively participate in global team discussions, projects/process enhancement plans and encourage creative thinking amongst the team.

Key Responsibilities: The individual would be responsible for hands-on development/configuration of data automation solutions using Xceptor and support the business enablement team initiatives; assisting with testing; provide application support; reporting and highlighting key challenges including ‘go/no-go’ decisions; and impacts to delivery timelines, bottlenecks and control gaps. The role would require direct engagement with senior leaders across global COO teams.

Posting End Date:

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

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