Lead Finance Technology Business Systems Consultant

About this role:

Wells Fargo Finance Technology is looking for a Lead Technology Business Systems Consultant to facilitate communication between product teams and the technical organization. This role involves analyzing intricate corporate-wide business challenges and devising solutions using automated systems. Interested in making a significant impact in the finance and technology sector? Join us!

In this role, you will:

• Provides technical expertise in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet business requirements.
• Applies knowledge of industry trends and technology to drive organizational change and position Wells Fargo for the future.
• Works with user groups to provide training, resolve questions, assess user needs, and recommend changes.
• Participates in transforming strategic enterprise architecture and design principles into specific system requirements and specifications. Recommends and initiates systems testing.
• Acts as the highest-level internal consultant within technology and business groups by re-engineering technical processes for greater efficiencies with significant impact to the business.
• Directs and serves as a mentor to less experienced staff. Immediate focus areas of this position will include but not limited to the following:
• Collaborates and maintain strong relationships with key business leaders to understand their strategy, align appropriate technology strategy, and collaborate to accomplish mission critical initiatives.
• Communicates change effectively with treasury, finance, and various risk groups.
• Exhibits practical communication style to converse with vendors, internal technical professionals, and senior/executive leadership.
• Ensures projects impacting the technology stack are properly scoped and executed to meet business objectives while making sure all projects are on target and on budget.
• Collaborates with internal business and technical partner teams to improve effectiveness of delivery and reduce/eliminate inefficiencies
• Optimizes development, testing/verification, and development processes for the delivery team.
• Maintains strong risk and security compliance for the application portfolio.
• Develops team members through individual development plans; identify skills and competencies for development (or leveraging strengths).
• Provides technical expertise in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet business requirements.
• Applies knowledge of industry trends and technology to drive organizational change and position Wells Fargo for the future.
• Works with user groups to provide training, resolve questions, assess user needs, and recommend changes.
• Participates in transforming strategic enterprise architecture and design principles into specific system requirements and specifications. Recommends and initiates systems testing.
• Acts as the highest-level internal consultant within technology and business groups by re-engineering technical processes for greater efficiencies with significant impact to the business.
• Directs and serves as a mentor to less experienced staff.

Immediate focus areas of this position will include but not limited to the following:

• Collaborate and maintain strong relationships with key business leaders to understand their strategy, align appropriate technology strategy, and collaborate to accomplish mission critical initiatives.
• Communicate change effectively with treasury, finance, and various risk groups. Exhibit practical communication style to converse with vendors, internal technical professionals, and senior/executive leadership.
• Ensure projects impacting the technology stack are properly scoped and executed to meet business objectives while making sure all projects are on target and on budget.
• Collaborate with internal business and technical partner teams to improve effectiveness of delivery and reduce/eliminate inefficiencies
• Optimize development, testing/verification, and development processes for the delivery team.
• Maintain strong risk and security compliance for the application portfolio.
• Develop team members through individual development plans; identify skills and competencies for development (or leveraging strengths).
• Lead complex initiatives to provide technological solutions with broad impact for cross functional businesses and technology teams
• Act as a key participant in providing strategic business solutions to companywide technology initiatives
• Evaluate highly complex business problems and provide subject matter knowledge proficiency for technology initiatives
• Define and lead detailed research on business and technology requests to develop efficient and accurate functional requirements
• Make decisions in highly complex and multifaceted situations requiring solid understanding of domain and technology applications, and which influence companywide technology solutions
• Lead project or systems documentation, and monitor and manage project schedules and deliverables
• Collaborate and consult with business and technology teams to provide comprehensive technological solutions for complex business problems
• Ensure communication and information flow between business and technology teams

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Business Systems Data and Business Systems Designing experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 3+ Years of Auto Loan Securitization (or other assets class) experience
• 5+ Experience managing a project team throughout the entire project life cycle from problem definition, requirement definition, design, and testing and implementation.

Desired Qualifications:

• 5+ Experience creating reports in response to management, audit, or regulatory requirements
• Experience working with Corporate Finance and the Project Management Office (PMO) on effective 2+ forecasting and budget management of projects or initiatives
• Experience with Agile Scrum (Daily Standup, Sprint Planning and Sprint Retrospective meetings) and Kanban
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to interact with all levels of an organization
• Strong relationship management skills
• Experience creating reports in response to management, audit, or regulatory requirements
• Experience managing a project team throughout the entire project life cycle from problem definition, requirement definition, design, and testing and implementation
• Experience working with Corporate Finance and the Project Management Office (PMO) on effective forecasting and budget management of projects or initiatives
• Experience in product management, business analysis, marketing, operations and/or strategic/consulting in a consumer oriented, technology dependent environment, in financial services or related industries

Job Expectations:

• Job Expectations:
• Be Humble: You're smart yet always interested in learning from others.
• Work Transparently: You always deal in an honest, direct, and transparent way.
• Take Ownership: You embrace responsibility and find joy in having the answers.
• Learn More: You regularly self-educate and improve your skill set.
• Show Gratitude: You show appreciation and respect to those you work with.

Pay is between $96,600 and $171,800 for Charlotte NC depending on experience and expertise.

There is no Visa Sponsorship for this role.

Posting End Date:
11 Oct 2024
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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