Lead Analytics Consultant - Fraud Strategy & Analytics

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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Analytics Consultant to join the Originations Fraud Strategy team. This role supports fraud risk management across Consumer Credit Cards, Small Business Cards, Retail Services, and Personal Loans by developing and optimizing fraud detection strategies, monitoring emerging fraud threats, and enhancing fraud prevention controls.

The successful candidate will leverage advanced analytics, fraud intelligence, and risk management expertise to protect portfolio growth while balancing customer experience and operational efficiency. This role provides leadership for fraud strategy initiatives, new product launches, vendor capabilities, and fraud technology enhancements that support application fraud loss reduction  this role, you will:

Lead fraud strategy development, implementation, and optimization across multiple lending and card portfolios.

Analyze fraud trends, attack patterns, and emerging threats to identify opportunities for enhanced detection and prevention.

Design, test, implement, and monitor fraud decision strategies, business rules, and automated controls.

Perform complex analytics to evaluate fraud performance, operational impacts, customer outcomes, and portfolio risk.

Partner with Fraud, Risk, Operations, Technology, Product, and Data teams to deliver end-to-end fraud mitigation solutions.

Provide ongoing oversight and performance monitoring of fraud models, risk scores, and third-party vendor capabilities.

Develop management reporting, performance dashboards, and executive-level recommendations.

Support fraud technology initiatives and new product launches by identifying risks, designing controls, and measuring outcomes.

Lead investigations into significant fraud events and emerging attack vectors, translating findings into actionable strategies.

Advise line of business and company wide 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, education5+ years of fraud strategy, risk management, or related experience

Experience with credit cards, consumer…