About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking an Analytics Director to lead Global Employee Fraud Monitoring & Fraud Policy Insights & Analysis with a scope firmwide. This Executive Director level position that is eligible for SVP/Managing Director elevation plays a key role in GEFM&FP enterprise program by leading a team of executive directors and vice presidents.  This team has exposure to and leverages sensitive employee, customer, and account information that enables key actionable insights across the fraud risk spectrum with the primary focus on employee fraud, falsification, and policy violations. 

This position is responsible for comprehensively understanding source data, schemas, and business intelligence tools in order to generate clear and actionable insights for employees, leadership, executives, partners, and agencies. The role requires deep knowledge of business processes, advanced root-cause and correlation analysis, and the demonstrated ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion. Key accountabilities include supporting critical activities and developing sustainable processes primarily related to Employee (Internal) Fraud, falsification, and policy violations.

Deliverables include preparing materials for regulatory bodies and committees/councils, conducting inherent and residual risk assessments, performance reporting, root-cause and trend analyses, statistical and financial loss analytics, forecasting, outside event analysis, peer benchmarking, and the development and monitoring of Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

The individual in this role leads the end-to-end strategy for insights and analysis within the Global Employee Fraud Monitoring & Fraud Policy organization, acts as a process and control owner under RCSA across multiple RAUs, ensures strict adherence to policies and governance standards, and provides executive-level reporting on enterprise-wide performance and emerging opportunities. The director collaborates closely with risk management, legal, human resources/employee relations, front line teams, audit, regulators, and peer institutions. 

In this role, you will:

• Set strategy and lead execution of data research, analytics, and intelligence initiatives that support the business
• Manage and develop teams to advance business objectives and deliver key initiatives
• Collaborate with and influence stakeholders at all levels, including senior leaders, to provide strategic insights
• Ensure compliance with data management, data governance, policy and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee an enterprise-wide portfolio of standardized and ad hoc analytics to assess and improve business performance and employee fraud risk
• Lead the development, accuracy, and automation of insights, dashboards, committee materials, business reviews, and KRI/KPI reporting
• Direct fraud‑risk capability assessments across business lines and recommend control enhancements
• Measure performance of Global Employee Fraud Monitoring & Fraud Policy operational teams
• Guide analysis of boundary breaches, verify risk and root‑cause drivers, and facilitate accountability forums with SMEs
• Deliver aggregated fraud‑risk insights and actionable intelligence to executives, business leaders, lines of defense, and regulators
• Create and maintain governance documentation, routines, and controls for Frontline Monitoring programs
• Foster a strong culture of talent development aligned to business strategy
• Manage people and financial resources to meet commitments and strategic goals
• Interpret and implement compliance and risk‑management requirements, partnering with stakeholders on regulatory and industry initiatives

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of Analytics experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of management or leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Proficient with business Intelligence tools to design/promote reporting and insights: Tableau, Power BI, and/or Business Objects for visual depiction of fraud data
• Proficient with Large Data Tool capabilities including but not limited to SAS, Python, SQL, visual basic and other reporting and analysis tools
• Automation Experience
• Experience working in large‑scale data environments with disparate data sources and complex database structures
• Knowledge of ETL (extract/transfer/load) practices and standards
• Experience with data validation and quality monitoring pre and post data processing
• Experience aggregating, analyzing, and generating insights from structured and unstructured data.
• Ability to identify anomalies, insights, and patterns across large and complex data sources.
• Ability to synthesize and translate data into clear, actionable insights for executive audiences.
• Experience analyzing employee relations, HR, allegation, and business application data to create integrated insights and support predictive modeling
• Comprehensive knowledge of financial services organizational structures, functional roles, and capabilities to assess inherent risks
• Comprehensive experience understanding and evaluating employee misconduct risks
• Strong understanding of the allegation lifecycle, including sensitive matters, intake, investigations, root‑cause analysis, and customer impact
• Advanced root‑cause analysis skills

Job Expectations:

• This position may be located at one of the posted locations in Charlotte, NC; Chandler, AZ; San Antonio, TX or Wilmington, DE
• The ability to travel quarterly

Location:

• 401 S Tryon St, Charlotte, NC
• 1525 W W T Harris Blvd, Charlotte, NC
• 2700 S Price Rd, Chandler AZ
• 4101 Wiseman Blvd San Antonio, TX
• 2200 Concord Pike, Wilmington, DE

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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