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Wealth and Investment Management (WIM) is one of the United States' leading providers of financial and investment services. WIM provides a full range of personalized wealth management, investment, and retirement products and services to meet clients' unique needs and help them achieve financial goals. Our mission is to help clients pursue their financial goals with confidence. We accomplish this by building enduring client relationships through sound, thoughtful, and objective advice. Developing individualized plans for clients to help meet their financial objectives. Helping clients build, manage, preserve, and transition their financial resources and wealth.

This Senior Counsel position is in the Wells Fargo Legal Department's Wealth and Investment Management Division. The successful candidate will report directly to the WIM Deputy General Counsel and will serve as the primary legal support to the Chief Operations Officer for WIM. The attorney will also support remediations, both self-identified and regulatory, drive modernization in increasing e-delivery and e-signature usage across the WIM client facing platforms, and serve as the coordination point on key vendor contracts. A key part of this role will be to advise on a number of regulatory requirements and restrictions impacting the WIM Call Center, including broker-dealer licensing and supervision, retail sale of non-deposit investment products, and compliance with Unfair, Deceptive, or Abusive Acts or Practices (UDAAP) laws.

• 8+ years of experience as a practicing attorney; or 6+ years of experience as a practicing attorney and 2+ years of legal-related experience in one or a combination of the following areas: risk, compliance, contracts, government, regulatory, financial services, or technology
• Active State Bar membership

• Ability to analyze legal and regulatory issues in area of practice and provide effective advice to clients on complex legal matters
• Extensive experience conducting research and providing counsel and guidance regarding complex legal issues
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy skills
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to effectively organize and prioritize work while handling multiple matters
• Ability to work effectively in a complex environment with a high degree of collaboration
• Effective in building partnerships, functioning well with project teams, and working for the success of the team

• Solid experience educating, advising, and counseling senior levels of management
• Confident, shows initiative, yet willing to take direction from other attorneys
• Effective and efficient in gathering information in a fast-paced business environment, understanding business needs and goals, and working with intensity toward effective, practical, and timely legal solutions
• Understanding of reputation risk
• Customer-oriented manner of interacting with coworkers
• Knowledge of legal, technical and operational issues affecting an enterprise records management program
• Knowledge and experience with consumer and commercial banking laws

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All offers for employment with Wells Fargo are contingent upon the candidate having successfully completed a criminal background check. Wells Fargo will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable local, state and Federal law, including Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.



Relevant military experience is considered for veterans and transitioning service men and women.

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