Head of EMEA Management Information

Wells Fargo provides middle market, large corporate and financial institution customers with a range of international solutions, including treasury management, credit, payments, financing, foreign exchange, and trade services. Wells Fargo operates from 42 countries and territories outside of the U.S., including branches in Beijing, Cayman Islands, Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), Hong Kong, London, Seoul.

Main function of the job:

• Responsible for the creation and maintenance of an effective process for the reporting obligations and adherence with the related corporate governance obligations of the EMEA COO Office for the regional Branch Committees, EMEA Operating Committee and Enterprise reporting.
• Setting the standard of committee reporting for the EMEA region and hence working closely with the EMEA Company Secretarial teams.
• Building strong partnerships with EMEA Line of Business and Support Function to facilitate accurate and relevant reporting of Management Information with appropriate credible challenge to ensure effective and constructive meetings and governance.
• Experience and strong working knowledge of corporate governance in a financial services regulatory environment and regulators’ (EMEA and US) requirements and expectations of Management Information.
• Collaborate with US teams to ensure alignment with Group’s corporate governance framework.
• Awareness of changes in the Group’s governance environment and regulatory environment and respond appropriately.
• Understanding of the relevant and importance of Management Information to support Senior Managers (under the Senior Manager and Certification Regime) and their reasonable steps.

(Note: In addition to these functions employees are required to carry out such other duties as may reasonably be required)

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement an effective process for the collation of data from all reporting groups and the production of reporting decks for these regional committees
• Have an understanding of EMEA Lines of Business and Support Groups to be able to liaise with them in an effective manner to facilitate of the collation of relevant information for the reporting obligations of the EMEA COO Office (EMEA branch meetings, EMEA Operating Committee, reporting to Wholesale Executives).
• Work closely with the Company Secretarial teams to ensure consistency in reporting throughout the region on all governance matters
• Ensure minutes are taken and the follow up on actions are documented and actioned
• Consider the effective circulation of the relevant data and effective use of share point sites
• Maintain Terms of Reference and registers of committee members
• Schedule regional committee meetings to ensure clear coordination and appropriate escalation between committees’ meetings.
• Collaborate with US teams to ensure alignment with Group’s corporate governance framework.
• Awareness of changes in the Group’s governance environment and regulatory environment and respond appropriately.
• Manage the Management Information team.

Market Skills and Certifications

Skills/Experience Required:

• Strong leadership capability; leads by example, fosters trust and is aligned with the Company’s vision and values. 
• Extensive proven management information collation and reporting experience, from a similar role is strongly preferred in large corporate environment in the regulated financial services sector with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience with the functioning of Board, committees and corporate governance and presenting reports and briefings to a senior executive audience in a regulated environment.
• Ability to work independently while providing leadership and positive collaboration within a fast paced, team environment.
• Strategic thinking skills, including the ability to analyse business issues and identify key risks/mitigating controls, combined with a pragmatic approach to problem solving. Proactive in attitude and ability and demonstrates initiative to move issues forward to a sensible and relevant conclusion
• Highly developed interpersonal skills, with an ability to communicate effectively with both the line of business and technical Team Members.  Ability to effectively communicate best practice guidelines for data requests to internal stakeholders. 
• Effective communications skills both verbal and in written format to ensure clear and concise communication in meeting and supporting materials and ability to credible challenge submissions of data and in meetings in a professional and relevant manner.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Wells Fargo operations, processes and systems. 
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Planning, project management and time management skills.
• Ability to work independently and positive collaboration within a fast paced, team environment.
• Exceptional organizational, analytical and documentation skills.
• Ability to manage many competing projects effectively for on-time delivery.
• Self-starter and able to recognise opportunities for improvement and to act on those opportunities.
• Advanced computer skills including MS Office, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Unquestionable conduct, ethics and integrity.

Team members 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.