Business Risk Control and Regulatory Oversight Intern

Job Description

About Wells Fargo:

Wells Fargo is a leading financial services company with a commitment to a strong business-control infrastructure to protect the business and provide a positive client experience. They are dedicated to building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture.

Job Description:

Wells Fargo is seeking talented individuals to join the Business Risk Control and Regulatory Oversight team under the Chief Operating Office (COO) organization for a Summer 2025 internship. This is a 10-week program designed to provide undergraduate students with an experiential overview of various teams within the business risk control and regulatory oversight functions.

The program offers five unique pathways:

• Control Management: Collaborate with front-line business groups to assess and mitigate operational risk across Wells Fargo.
• Enterprise Complaints and Remediation (ECR): Support teams addressing customer concerns, providing remediation for operational breakdowns, and delivering executive reporting and strategic communication.
• Regulatory and Policy Affairs (RAPA): Focus on ensuring an integrated approach to Wells Fargo’s regulatory, policy, and governance activities, coordinating with multiple stakeholders.
• Risk Transformation and Execution: Work with the company’s primary operational risk and control assessment tool, ensuring consistent execution and outcomes.
• Sales Practices and Conduct Management: Investigate reports of possible employee misconduct, analyze trends, and share insights with business partners.

Internship Experience:

• Participate in formal internship program and workshop initiatives
• Review assignments to become familiar with policies and procedures related to low-to-medium risk tasks and deliverables
• Receive direction from managers and exercise independent judgment while developing an understanding of compliance and risk management requirements
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative culture in both face-to-face and virtual environments
• Proactive self-starter with a genuine interest in learning and growth
• Possess leadership skills
• Attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks
• Demonstrated ability to navigate regular feedback, coaching, and mentoring

Desired Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree with an expected graduation between December 2025 – May/June 2026
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills
• Involvement in extracurricular activities like volunteerism, student organizations, study abroad, leadership positions, or non-profit involvement
• Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Business Intelligence, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Statistics, Technology, Communication, Accounting, Mathematics, Analytics, Physics, Political Science, Pre-law, Government, Policy and Management, Computer Science, Management and Risk Management or a related business field
• Knowledge and/or experience in the financial services industry
• Demonstrated interest and/or experience in manipulating data and reporting, data visualization, and/or data insights

Job Expectations:

• Ability to travel 10% or more of the time

This competitive internship program targets exceptional juniors and is a pipeline program where successful interns may receive an offer to return the following year to join the full-time Analyst Program.