Senior Financial Crime Specialist

Wells Fargo is looking for a Senior Financial Crime Specialist to investigate complex financial crime transactions, identify suspicious patterns, assess risks, and recommend strategies to strengthen financial crime prevention. The role also involves evaluating internal controls, handling escalations, supporting leadership initiatives, and mentoring less experienced team members.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead or participate in moderately complex initiatives and contribute to functional-area planning.

• Investigate, research, examine, and report complex financial crime transactions, policy violations, and high-risk suspicious situations.

• Perform risk evaluation and modelling to support financial crime strategies and models.

• Evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of policies, procedures, processes, and internal controls.

• Conduct data and onsite reviews, assess findings, determine risk levels, and recommend fraud prevention strategies.

• Perform investigative research and root-cause assessments for complex financial crime cases.

• Identify transaction and relationship patterns, trends, anomalies, and schemes across businesses or products.

• Act as an escalation point for complex cases.

• Resolve moderately complex issues and lead a team to meet deliverables.

• Collaborate with leadership to develop strategies to reduce financial crime portfolio risk.

• Provide team leadership, mentor less experienced staff, and lead projects.

• Develop and deliver training for individuals involved in issue detection.

• Represent the organisation in court appearances, depositions, mediations, and arbitrations.

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on investigations and risk management.

Required Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience in one or more of the following areas:

  • Financial Crimes

  • Operational Risk

  • Fraud

  • Sanctions

  • Anti-Bribery and Corruption

• Equivalent experience demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education may be considered.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in financial crimes, operational risk, fraud, sanctions, anti-bribery, or corruption.

Risk and Compliance Expectations

Employees are expected to:

• Follow applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures.

• Fulfil risk and compliance obligations.

• Escalate and remediate issues promptly and effectively.

• Support proactive monitoring, governance, and risk identification.

• Make risk decisions consistent with the organisation’s risk appetite and compliance requirements.

How to Apply

The supplied job description does not include a direct application URL or the job’s location. Candidates should search for Senior Financial Crime Specialist on the official Wells Fargo careers website.

Posting end date: 29 November 2026. The posting may be removed earlier due to application volume.