Financial Crimes Lead Analytics Consultant

at  Wells Fargo

WHY WELLS FARGO:

This is where your true career begins. We ranked #2 on the 2023 LinkedIn Top Companies list - and #1 among financial services companies - as the best workplace “to grow your career” in the U.S. At Wells Fargo, we support employees’ career aspirations and growth. We’re proud of our employee-welfare-centered business approach and our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
We offer competitive salaries and one of the richest benefits packages in the industry. Our Total Rewards program focuses on wellness, work-life balance and the financial health of our employees. Our customers invest with us, we invest in you. Apply today.

APPLICANTS WITH DISABILITIES

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WELLS FARGO RECRUITMENT AND HIRING REQUIREMENTS:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Analytics experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 2+ years of experience in Fraud/AML Investigation

Desired Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Python SQL programming experience and understanding of relational database schemas
• Experience with link analysis software
• Knowledge of BSA/AML/Fraud Detection strategies
• Proven experience using Python and SQL for data gathering and data transformation
• Strong Hands-On coding experience within various IDE’s including but not limited to Jupyter Notebooks, Spyder, Teradata, SQL Developer, VB Script, SAS, and Tableau.
• Agile Governance Tool experience
• Experienced working with and integrating third party service provider data
• Ability to develop and integrate data driven and analytical decision making for product and service operational activities
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Experience in gathering, refining and stating business requirements to match disparate functional areas
• Ability to understand the impact of the selection of individual data elements on the overall goal of the business requirements
• Ability to challenge and re-shape business requirements to align with overall goals of monitoring third party service providers
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong, clear and concise written and oral communication skills
• Ability to make timely and independent judgment decisions while working in a fast-paced and results-driven environment.
• Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment.
• Strong independent thinking skills
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skill

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Analytics Consultant for Financial Crimes Investigations, Special Investigations, Cybercrime Investigative Group within their SPEAR team. The AC Lead will focus on advanced data queries and enhanced efficiency process development to support investigations and analytical research by collecting necessary investigative data from multiple sources across the enterprise. The Support, Partnership, Enhancement, and Analytical Research (SPEAR) Team is focused on:

• Utilizing database knowledge and business process to support complex financial crimes investigations.
• Develop Ad Hoc processes to enhance investigative efficiency and reporting requirements across financial crimes investigations.
• Support various investigative groups across FCI to include SI, AMLI, EFI, and PISOG with efficiency projects that improve data gathering needs.
• This individual will be responsible for multiple activities related to the BSA investigative process that include Investigating fraud/AML networks, Investigating aggregated data to identify common attribution within populations, Creating visualizations of data, consulting and partnering with Line of business or senior level leaders, providing data-driven insights, and performing validation to support a wide array of functions. The ability to understand and perform requirements and quality validation are essential for success.

In this role, you will:

• Advise line of business and companywide functions on business strategies based on research of performance metrics, trends in population distributions, and other complex data analysis to maximize profits and asset growth, and minimize operating losses within risk and other operating standards
• Provide influence and leadership in the identification of new tools and methods to analyze data
• Ensure adherence to compliance and legal regulations and policies on all projects managed
• Provide updates on project logs, monthly budget forecasts, monthly newsletters, and operations reviews
• Assist managers in building quarterly and annual plans and forecast future market research needs for business partners supported
• Strategically collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level to senior managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
• Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor to staff, interns and external contractors

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Analytics experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 2+ years of experience in Fraud/AML Investigations

Desired Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Python SQL programming experience and understanding of relational database schemas
• Experience with link analysis software
• Knowledge of BSA/AML/Fraud Detection strategies
• Proven experience using Python and SQL for data gathering and data transformation
• Strong Hands-On coding experience within various IDE’s including but not limited to Jupyter Notebooks, Spyder, Teradata, SQL Developer, VB Script, SAS, and Tableau.
• Agile Governance Tool experience
• Experienced working with and integrating third party service provider data
• Ability to develop and integrate data driven and analytical decision making for product and service operational activities
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Experience in gathering, refining and stating business requirements to match disparate functional areas
• Ability to understand the impact of the selection of individual data elements on the overall goal of the business requirements
• Ability to challenge and re-shape business requirements to align with overall goals of monitoring third party service providers
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong, clear and concise written and oral communication skills
• Ability to make timely and independent judgment decisions while working in a fast-paced and results-driven environment.
• Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment.
• Strong independent thinking skills
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work Schedule
• This position is not eligible for visa Sponsorship

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