Senior Lead Analytics Consultant - Internal Fraud Insights and Analysis

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About this Role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Analytics Consultant within the Global Employee Fraud Monitoring & Fraud Policy Insights & Analysis team.

This role serves as a senior analytics leader responsible for establishing and driving the enterprise analytics strategy supporting the Internal Fraud Program. The individual will provide strategic leadership for enterprise fraud monitoring, policy insights, advanced analytics, governance reporting, and performance measurement across employee fraud risk management activities.

Additionally, the Senior Lead Analytics Consultant will define, standardize, and drive adoption of enterprise internal fraud metrics, oversee complex analytical initiatives, identify emerging risks and trends, and deliver actionable insights to executive leadership. This role will partner across Fraud Risk, Compliance, Operational Risk, Human Resources, Employee Relations, Legal, Investigations, Technology, and Independent Risk Management to enhance the organization's ability to identify, monitor, measure, and mitigate employee fraud risk.

Will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, influence enterprise strategy through data-driven insights, and help advance innovative analytical capabilities including artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, and graph-based risk detection techniques.

In This Role, You Will

• Lead the enterprise analytics strategy for the Global Employee Fraud Monitoring & Fraud Policy Insights & Analysis organization.

• Define, standardize, and socialize enterprise-wide internal fraud metrics to improve risk transparency, consistency, and decision-making across business groups.

• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership regarding employee fraud risk trends, performance metrics, emerging risks, analytical opportunities, and monitoring effectiveness.

• Establish and maintain an enterprise portfolio of key risk indicators (KRIs), key performance indicators (KPIs), executive scorecards, and governance reporting.

• Lead development of advanced analytical solutions that identify patterns, behavioral anomalies, emerging fraud schemes, and control gaps.

• Drive enterprise adoption of data-driven decision making through actionable insights, executive reporting, and strategic recommendations.

• Direct highly complex analytical initiatives involving multiple business groups, risk functions, systems, and data sources.

• Develop long-term analytical roadmaps aligned with Internal Fraud Program objectives, regulatory expectations, and organizational strategy.

• Champion innovation through application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, network analytics, and predictive modeling techniques.

• Assess inherent and residual employee fraud risks and recommend improvements to monitoring strategies, controls, and risk mitigation activities.

• Engage directly with senior executives, regulators, audit partners, legal counsel, employee relations, and independent risk management functions.

• Lead development and execution of executive reporting routines, business reviews, governance committees, and regulatory deliverables.

• Ensure analytics and reporting adhere to enterprise data governance, data management, risk management, and compliance requirements.

• Establish analytical standards, governance frameworks, and monitoring methodologies that promote consistency, sustainability, and policy adherence.

• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentorship to analytics professionals while fostering analytical excellence and continuous improvement.

• Influence prioritization of enterprise analytical investments, technology capabilities, and strategic initiatives supporting Internal Fraud Risk Management.

• Act as a recognized subject matter expert and trusted advisor on enterprise internal fraud analytics, monitoring effectiveness, policy insights, and performance measurement.

• Influence strategic decisions across business, risk, compliance, and technology organizations through data-driven recommendations.

• Lead highly visible and complex initiatives requiring enterprise coordination and executive engagement.

• Support development of future-state analytical capabilities, including AI-enabled monitoring, graph analytics, automation, and advanced fraud detection methodologies.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of Analytics, Reporting, Financial Modeling or Statistics experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in SQL, Python, Power BI, and Alteryx.

• Experience applying AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and advanced statistical techniques.

• Knowledge of graph analytics, network analysis, and Neo4j preferred.

• Experience supporting internal fraud, investigations, employee conduct risk, compliance, audit, operational risk, or enterprise risk management programs.

• Proven leadership of enterprise analytics programs, measurement frameworks, executive reporting, and governance routines.

• Experience defining and governing enterprise metrics, KPIs, KRIs, scorecards, and performance reporting.

• Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, and data management practices.

• Demonstrated ability to identify emerging risks, assess control effectiveness, and influence risk mitigation strategies.

• Exceptional executive communication skills with the ability to translate complex analytics into actionable business insights.

• Experience presenting to senior executives, regulators, audit partners, and governance committees.

• Experience mentoring analytical talent and establishing analytical best practices.

Job Expectations:

• This position is NOT eligible for Visa sponsorship.

• Ability to work on site per Wells Fargo's standard operating model in the listed location (hybrid schedule – 3 days on-site & 2 remote)

• The ability to travel up to 10% of the time.

Posting Location:

• Charlotte, NC

The Chief Operations Office functions adhere to a location strategy; therefore, your candidacy may be determined based on your current location. Remote work locations are not available for these roles, so if you are not in a location listed on the posting, you must commit to self-relocation within an agreed upon timeframe.

Posting End Date: 

19 Jul 2026

*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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