About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a highly motivated individual with a strong understanding of financial and regulatory reporting governance and controls to join our Governance and Oversight team as a subject matter expert (SME). The Governance and Oversight team has enterprise-wide exposure to key stakeholders within the external financial and regulatory reporting infrastructure and is a component of the Enterprise Controls & Oversight group that reports to the Corporate Controller. 

The team supports the company’s on-going objective of maintaining an industry leading financial and regulatory reporting control environment and is responsible for the following directives:

• Providing meaningful assessments of the current financial and regulatory reporting control environment, including internal control over the Company’s financial and regulatory reporting environment
• Development, governance and oversight of Wells Fargo & Company’s COSO based policies for internal controls over financial and regulatory reporting. Strategic planning to maintain industry leading financial and regulatory reporting governance and control polices and proactive anticipation of internal control related matters 
• Understand significant products and classes of transactions, including key risks and controls tested by COSO and sources of information (including Significant applications) which feed financial and regulatory reporting
• Monitoring new and emerging internal control and regulatory reporting related guidance and
• Providing consultation and subject matter expertise for process and control related matters, including evaluating severity of control deficiencies and related remediation efforts 
• Providing process and control support and thought leadership for EC&O sponsored projects, including supporting evaluation of data quality impacting reporting and development, governance, and oversight of related data quality controls and testing
• Interfacing with regulators, Corporate Finance, Treasury and other stakeholders on control related matters
• Acting as a change agent for continual improvement of the control environment

In this role, you will:

• Consult with the line of business and enterprise functions on financial or regulatory reporting governance, controls, and oversight matters
• Participate in planning and execution strategy of large, complex testing and monitoring initiatives or provide oversight with respect to testing and monitoring involving most complex subject matter or control areas
• Provide technical interpretation on various matters in building and adopting best practices within the functional area
• Lead implementation of complex projects or initiatives with companywide impact
• Communicate and provide strategic consultation to more experienced leadership throughout the enterprise
• Provide technical interpretation of guidelines or report results of the most complex elements of the company’s policy, governance and oversight framework
• Lead initiatives around process design, identification of important risk points, evaluating severity of control deficiencies and monitoring of related remediation efforts
• Provide process and control support and leadership for governance and oversight related projects
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Finance, Accounting, Analytics, Reporting or Business and Technology Audit experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• A Master of Business Administration or designation as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is preferred
• 3+ years of Big Four public accounting experience
• Financial services industry experience
• Highly refined and professional verbal and written communications
• Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities
• Knowledge and understanding of regulatory agencies: Federal Reserve and OCC
• Audit or internal controls testing experience
• Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment
• Ability to take on a high level of responsibility, initiative, and accountability
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and across all organizational levels, where flexibility, collaboration, and adaptability are important

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule in our Charlotte or Minneapolis locations.
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

Specific compliance policies may apply regarding outside activities and/or personal investing; affected employees will be expected to provide information to the Wells Fargo Personal Account Dealing Team and abide by applicable policy requirements if hired. Information will be shared about expectations during the recruitment process.

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.

$87,000.00 - $154,000.00

Posting End Date:

8 Mar 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.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

 

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.