Analytics Manager

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking an Analytics Manager.

In this role, you will:

• Manage and develop a team of individual contributors in planning, coordinating, and executing data research projects or results oriented intelligence that supports line of business or companywide business objectives
• Identify and recommend strategies for developing and utilizing technical or analytic resources to enable initiatives that predict, improve, support, and measure business success
• Interpret and develop strategies that maximize profits or asset growth and minimize credit losses, operating losses and other risk exposures
• Ensure adherence to data management and data governance regulations, and policies and compliance requirements
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and multiple level managers to ensure effective consultation and recommendations based on data analysis
• Provide leadership to the department in the identification and development of innovative research concepts and designs
• Work with clients to define issues and information needs and translate them into specific data and technical requirements to support business initiatives and projects
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources
• Mentor and guide talent development of direct reports and assist in hiring talent

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 leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Business Administration or a related quantitative discipline.
• Strong years of experience in Fraud Risk Management, Fraud Analytics, Fraud Strategy, or Financial Crimes.
• Proven experience developing and implementing fraud detection strategies within consumer lending, credit card, personal loans, or other unsecured lending portfolios.
• Strong knowledge of First-Party Fraud and Third-Party Fraud typologies and mitigation techniques.
• Experience working with fraud decisioning and risk assessment platforms (FICO, SSE)
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving capabilities with ability to translate insights into actionable business strategies.
• Strong stakeholder management and influence skills across multiple organizational levels.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive presentation experience.

Job Expectations:

Fraud Strategy Development & Ownership

• Lead the design, implementation, and governance of pre-booking fraud strategies across unsecured lending products.
• Own the end-to-end fraud decisioning framework for application fraud risk assessment.
• Develop and maintain fraud detection controls, rules, and decision strategies that effectively identify and prevent fraudulent applications.
• Drive strategic enhancements to address both First-Party Fraud (Synthetic Identity, Bust-Out, Credit Washing, etc.) and Third-Party Fraud threats.
• Ensure fraud strategies align with enterprise risk appetite, regulatory expectations, and business objectives.

Fraud Analytics & Insights

• Perform advanced analytics to identify fraud patterns, emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and portfolio trends.
• Leverage internal and external data sources to improve fraud detection capabilities and customer risk segmentation.
• Conduct performance monitoring and root cause analysis to assess strategy effectiveness and identify optimization opportunities.
• Quantify fraud risk, operational impacts, customer experience implications, and financial outcomes of strategy changes.
• Utilize statistical, machine learning, and rule-based methodologies to improve fraud identification and prevention

Decisioning Platform & Technology Enablement

• Leverage expertise in fraud assessment and decisioning platforms (FICO, SSE) to configure, deploy, and optimize fraud strategies.
• Partner with technology teams to implement new fraud capabilities, data integrations, and decisioning enhancements.
• Translate analytical insights into operationally executable fraud controls within production environments.
• Support platform modernization and strategic initiatives related to fraud prevention infrastructure.

Strategy Optimization & Governance

• Establish monitoring frameworks, performance metrics, reporting, and governance routines to evaluate strategy effectiveness.
• Manage ongoing rule tuning, threshold optimization, and strategy recalibration based on portfolio performance.
• Ensure strategies maintain an appropriate balance between fraud losses, customer experience, operational efficiency, and business growth.
• Support risk governance reviews, audits, controls testing, and model risk management requirements where applicable.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner with Credit Risk, Product, Fraud Operations, Compliance, Technology, Data Science, and Model Development teams to deliver integrated fraud solutions.
• Influence strategic direction through data-driven recommendations and executive-level presentations.
• Act as a subject matter expert for pre-booking fraud risk and application fraud trends.

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.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

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.