Matt Schell Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, US

• Manage the front-line compliance and operational risk programs within the $52B in assets Auto business and $15B in assets Personal Lending business. Key risk programs include, but are not limited to: regulatory.
• Facilitate all front-line risk assessments across all risk types.
• Assist the business with the design, implementation, and monitoring of front-line controls across all business processes.
• Develop and implement mitigation strategies to address known gaps and deficiencies in an effective and timely manner.
• Escalate concerns and provide risk reporting to Senior Leadership, Independent Risk Management, Management Committees and the Board.
• Manage all aspects of regulator relationships with the FRB, OCC, CFPB, and FDIC (exams, reporting, issue response, etc.)

San Francisco, California, US

• Managed compliance and operational risk programs and controls within the business.
• Collaborated with auto leadership to identify emerging risks and advise on best practices for risk management.
• Assisted the business with the design, implementation, and monitoring of front-line controls across all business processes.
• Managed the fraud, business continuity, risk appetite, key indicator, third party, issue management, exam management, regulatory change management, auto dealer oversight, business process and control mapping, RCSA, and.
• Managed proactive communication strategy and actions with regulatory agencies.
• Led a team of over 350 risk professionals conducting risk management activities in the front line.

San Francisco, California, US

• Managed several enterprises-wide risk management programs, including Product and Service Risk Management (PSRM), Issue Management, Strategic Risk Oversight, Merger & Acquisition Oversight, Committee Governance.
• Led all new product and service risk management activities for the company. This included setting policy to effectively mitigate risk related to new and existing products and business initiatives.
• Owned the enterprise Issue Management Policy and governance practices for effectively managing and resolving issues identified by the Company, its 2nd and 3rd lines of defense or external regulators.
• Authored the company’s Strategic Risk Functional Framework.
• Governed the quarterly self-assessment completed by the 1st and 2nd lines of defense across all key risk types.
• Developed and implemented common rating scales and definitions across the enterprise for risk assessment, risk management program evaluations and project activities.

San Francisco, California, US

• Served as the SVP, Compliance and Operational Risk Manager for the #1 mortgage originator in the U.S. Effectively led a team of over 90 risk professionals providing compliance and operational risk oversight.
• Partnered with the Home Lending production businesses to ensure the group actively identified, managed and remediated its operational and compliance risks.
• Drove the regulatory compliance and operational risk testing requirements and enhanced testing methods with data mining, data analysis, metrics, data validation, analytics and use of Wells Fargo India Services tools.
• Engage with Real Estate Lending senior management to communicate compliance and operational risk remediation priorities and drive operational change.
• Provided independent credible challenge when necessary to ensure that the Real Estate Lending group was adequately managing risk.
• Managed regulatory examination response activity performed by key regulators (CFPB, Federal Reserve, and OCC)

San Francisco, California, US

• Managed audit teams responsible for conducting audits of the following Wells Fargo business activities: o Enterprise risk management o Model risk management o Online and mobile banking o Financial, accounting (SOX) and.
• Performed all activities associated with annual audit planning, risk assessments, audit scoping, audit execution and reporting findings to senior management.

Lisle, Illinois, US

MBA program adjunct instructor teaching a course on fraud and forensic accounting.

New York, NY, US

• Provided internal audit (financial, operational, and compliance), Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, audit resolution, accounting policy development, business process analysis and remodeling, and federal compliance consulting.
• Conducted financial, operational, and compliance audits in order to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of management controls.
• Planned, performed and supervised all audit related tasks.
• Prepared and presented to management audit findings and proposed corrective actions designed to improve management controls, operations, and reduce risks.
• Conducted IT System control reviews and assessments.
• Provided Sarbanes-Oxley services such as Section 404 readiness assessments, developed and

Mba, Finance & Accounting

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Physiology, General

Chief Risk Officer Executive Development Program, Risk Management

Graduate School Of Banking, Banking And Financial Support Services