Senior Lead Financial Crimes Officer – OFAC Sanctions

Wells Fargo

Senior Lead Financial Crimes Officer overseeing Wells Fargo's global OFAC sanctions program. Advising on risk management across investment, corporate, and retail banking sectors.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeCharlotte • Iowa, Minnesota, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $159,000 - $305,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Ruby on RailsSwift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as an Economic Sanctions Subject Matter Expert responsible for helping oversee and govern Wells Fargo’s OFAC sanctions program and providing accurate and thoughtful regulatory guidance to business units.
Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence objectives, plans, specifications, resources, and long-term goals for highly complex business and technical needs across groups and functions.
Implement and maintain an effective financial crimes program that complies with all applicable laws, regulations, and regulatory expectations.
Evaluate long-term implications and consequences of strategic business decisions and recommend appropriate alternatives for risk management.
Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the company.
Deliver solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical thinking, and coordination of highly complex activities and guidance to others.
Lead implementation of complex initiatives with high risk, generally spanning multiple business lines.
Provide vision, direction and full knowledge to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions that are large scale companywide strategies.
Serve as an excellent advisor to leadership.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of Financial Crimes, Operational Risk, Fraud, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery, Corruption experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
Expert understanding in OFAC sanctions, risks, and typologies.
Experience working at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, State Department, Commerce Department or a federal financial regulator, a professional services consulting firm, or at a large multinational financial institution.
Experience with internal bank transaction screening, monitoring, and escalation systems.
Experience with the payment’s ecosystem, including major payment rails, messaging, and settlement frameworks (e.g., Fedwire, CHIPS, SWIFT).
Demonstrated ability to review, analyze, and interpret OFAC licenses, FAQs, and Executive Orders.
Experience or demonstrated interest in regulatory compliance related to virtual assets, including virtual currency, cryptocurrency, and associated financial crime and sanctions considerations.
Experience leading complex initiatives that require interacting and problem solving with business leaders, legal counsel, or industry groups.
Experience in using advanced Excel or similar software to conduct analytics.
Demonstrated ability to apply OFAC sanctions and financial crime controls to payment flows.
Experience in conducting sanctions screening oversight, including customer/related party screening & transaction screening.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health benefits
401(k) Plan
Paid time off
Disability benefits
Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
Parental leave
Critical caregiving leave
Discounts and savings
Commuter benefits
Tuition reimbursement
Scholarships for dependent children
Adoption reimbursement

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Hard Skills & Tools

Financial CrimesOperational RiskFraudSanctionsAnti-BriberyCorruptionOFAC sanctionsRegulatory complianceData analysisSanctions screening

Soft Skills

LeadershipAdvisoryStrategic thinkingProblem solvingAnalytical thinkingCreativityCoordinationCommunicationVisionInnovation