Wells Fargo

Senior Manager – Payment Operations Monitoring & Support

Wells Fargo$110K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning.
  • 3+ years of management or leadership experience.
  • Direct experience with ACH, Wire Transfer, Instant Payments, or ECS platforms is preferred.
  • Experience in a regulated environment with mission-critical platforms.
  • Strong skills in incident management and operational risk management.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team for effective operational planning and integration.
  • Engage with functional leaders to address conflict and align objectives.
  • Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies for change implementations.
  • Drive standardization and efficiency improvements across payment products.
  • Collaborate with partners to support and influence strategic business initiatives.
  • Oversee production support operations across various payment channels.
  • Manage escalations and high-severity incidents while ensuring business continuity planning.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work schedule with 3 days in office and 2 remote.
  • On-call support for department 24/7, including weekend coverage as needed.
  • Opportunity to lead a high-visibility team with strategic impact.
  • Exposure to multiple payment platforms and operational frameworks.
  • Career development and leadership training opportunities.
Full Job Description

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Business Execution Senior Manager to support Payment Operations Monitoring & Support (POMS). This role leads a team of senior individual contributors responsible for end0to0end production support, operational stability, incident and escalation management, strategic planning, and execution of initiatives to support Payment Operations across ACH, Electronic Commerce Services (ECS), Instant Payments, and Wires.

Senior Manager provides centralized leadership for Client and Operations business activity monitoring, incident response, and business continuity activities across multiple payment platforms. The leader also engages frequently with control, technology systems, platform support, product management, operations, sales, relationship management, and service teams to resolve complex and escalated issues and provides operations influence for product and strategy discussions.

The role carries accountability for operational risk management, service resilience, and execution of strategic initiatives that simplify the production support model and strengthen readiness for incident response.


In this role, you will:

  • Lead and develop a team while ensuring successful planning, integration, impasse resolution, and measurement of operations with moderate to high complexity and visibility
  • Engage functional leaders to obtain resources, influence outcomes, address conflict, and ensure alignment with Wells Fargo's policies and business line objectives
  • Identify potential risks when implementing change along with developing mitigation strategies and plans
  • Drive process standardization, efficiency improvements, and reduced operational complexity across products
  • Determine appropriate strategies and actions of multiple business groups to meet moderate to high complex deliverables
  • Collaborate with and influence functional business partners, leaders, and executive management to provide support and drive strategic initiatives for the business
  • Lead and mature capabilities for Business Activity Monitoring of Clients and Operations processes.
  • Provide end0to0end leadership for production support operations across ACH, ECS, Instant Payments, and Wires, delivering a target-state operating model
  • Interpret procedures and processes, and provide leadership to strategize and execute a variety of programs, services, and initiatives that are significant in scope, complexity, and risk
  • Partner with Technology, Product, Service, Control, and Business leaders to ensure operational risk and control effectiveness
  • Develop leadership capability, succession readiness, and a strong performance culture to meet business objectives and strategy
  • Own escalation management, including high0severity incidents and executive communications
  • Oversee business continuity planning (BCP), operational readiness, and response preparedness for critical payment platforms


Required Qualifications:

  • 7+ 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
  • 3+ years Management or leadership experience


Desired Qualifications:

  • Direct experience supporting ACH, Wire Transfer, Instant Payments, or ECS platforms.
  • 3+ years in management consulting
  • MBA
  • Six Sigma / Operational Excellence expertise
  • Experience supporting mission0critical, high0availability platforms in a regulated environment
  • Strong background in incident management, escalation handling, and operational risk
  • Proven leadership, decision0making, and executive communication skills in high-pressure situations
  • Strong understanding of operational risk, control frameworks, and business continuity planning.
  • Experience driving organizational change, operating model transformation, or centralized support models.
  • Prior leadership experience in a production support organization.
  • Familiarity with regulatory expectations impacting payment operations.
  • Strong executive presence and ability to influence across organizational boundaries.


Job Expectations:

  • Must be willing to be on call for department 24/7 and cover weekend business validation exercises as needed.
  • Typical work schedule will be 9am- 6pm EST Monday-Friday.
  • This position offers a hybrid work schedule requiring 3 full days in the office and 2 full days remote.

Work Location:

1525 W WT Harris Blvd. Charlotte, North Carolina

Posting End Date:

21 Aug 2026

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

About Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo Careers

Joining Wells Fargo means becoming part of a distinguished financial institution that has been a cornerstone of innovation and leadership in the banking industry. At Wells Fargo, we offer a plethora of job opportunities designed to empower your career growth and development in a diverse and inclusive environment.

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We believe in nurturing the potential of our employees. Wells Fargo offers robust training programs and resources to help every team member excel in their current roles and prepare for future challenges. Growth at Wells Fargo is not just about climbing the career ladder but expanding your skills and expertise to add value to our team and customers.

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