Senior Business Execution Consultant

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Business Execution Consultant

In this role, you will:

• Lead support functions or operations for multiple business groups and contribute to large scale strategic initiatives
• Ensure efficiency, quality, cost effectiveness of solutions, and pipeline management relating to assigned operations
• Research moderately complex business, operational, and strategic initiatives that require analytical skills, basic knowledge of organizational strategy and Business Execution, and understanding of international business
• Work independently to make recommendations for support function by providing support and leadership
• Assist in the planning and execution of a variety of programs and initiatives that may include risk mitigation, efficiency, and customer experience
• Collaborate and consult with team leaders in developing project plans, policies and procedures
• Provide leadership in management of relationships and implementation of programs, services, and initiatives with cross functional business partners

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ 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

Desired Qualifications:

The individual would be responsible for developing data visualization dashboards and maintaining UAT test plans to 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.

Functional and technical skills:

• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Power Platforms (Power BI, Power Automate), SQL, Agile JIRA framework, Python and Alteryx
• Experience in drafting & developing meaningful metric based dashboards suiting business purpose, and driving decision making
• Able to collate test results in presentable format, with pass/fail & subsequent go/no-go decision recommendations
• Able to lead discussions with product owners, with the aim to drive a collaborative discussion for fix

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

Job Expectations:

• MBA/equivalent advanced degree, or equivalent experience
• 4+ years' experience in teams developing reporting dashboards, pre go-live checks and quality assurance
• Power BI, Power Automate, SQL skillsets are a must. MS-Fabric, Python, Alteryx and JIRA is an added advantage
• 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; Strong analytical skills leveraging Microsoft Excel/Access
• 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