Commercial Loan Closing Specialist

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Commercial Loan Closing Specialist for the Commercial Banking Operations team.

This role provides vendor oversight, manages invoicing, and serves as the primary liaison between vendors and business partners. It also coordinates operational readiness for transformation initiatives, procedure updates, policy certifications, reporting, and risk management across Collateral and Flood Operations—a key function within Commercial Banking Operations—to support stability and compliance.

In this role,

• Coordinate vendor relationships and activities for Collateral and Flood Operations, including communications, service requests, invoicing, performance monitoring, and issue resolution
• Review vendor performance against established service levels and contractual requirements; prepare scorecards and provide information to support vendor assessments, performance reviews, implementations, and transitions
• Coordinate procedure and control updates with business partners and support operational readiness for process, system, and business changes; identify and escalate gaps within assigned responsibilities
• Execute assigned operational controls, policy assessments, certifications, and validation activities; maintain supporting documentation and monitor identified risks, issues, and remediation activities
• Prepare and analyze management reporting, dashboards, and operational information; identify trends, risks, and concerns and present recommendations within assigned responsibilities
• Coordinate low to moderately complex operational initiatives and deliverables, track milestones, and support business continuity and operational resilience activities
• Review and analyze low to moderately complex vendor, operational, risk, and process issues; exercise independent judgment within established policies and procedures and escalate more complex matters as appropriate
• Collaborate and consult with functional colleagues, internal partners, stakeholders, and vendors to resolve issues, support business objectives, and identify opportunities for process improvement
  

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of Commercial Loan Closing experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience managing vendor relationships, performance, service levels, issue resolution, and invoicing.
• Experience supporting operational controls, policy certifications, audits, and regulatory or compliance requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate procedures, operational readiness, process changes, or system implementations.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience preparing management reporting, dashboards, scorecards, or executive summaries.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across business, risk, technology, and vendor partners.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliverables in a deadline-driven environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and experience preparing dashboards, scorecards, or management reports.

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work on-site
• Ability to hybrid schedule

Locations:

• 800 S Jordan Creek Pkwy WEST DES MOINES, IA 50266

Posting End Date: 

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

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees 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.

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