Wells Fargo

Senior Risk Analytics Consultant (Merchant Services)

Wells Fargo • $110K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of Risk Analytics experience or equivalent through work, training, military, or education
  • 3 years of experience in the payments industry or merchant services
  • Strong background in data analytics and risk management within financial services
  • Proficiency in AI, ML, SQL, Python, R, or similar data analysis tools
  • Knowledge of fraud risk and payments risk mitigation strategies
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Demonstrated ability to balance business growth with risk mitigation strategies.

Responsibilities

  • Lead or participate in complex initiatives to provide insights and decision strategies
  • Review and analyze data aggregation, forecasting, reporting, and programming models
  • Oversee process production and data reconciliation per policy governance
  • Resolve data and production issues while ensuring compliance with risk reporting standards
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve modeling and reporting challenges
  • Lead projects and mentor junior team members
  • Partner with risk analysts to develop unified modeling strategies.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Employee assistance program
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match
  • Paid time off and holiday pay
  • Work-life balance initiatives
Full Job Description

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Risk Analytics Consultant to leverage data, advanced analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) to assess credit and fraud risks, enhance risk reporting, and support business growth while safeguarding the payments ecosystem. This role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, expertise in risk management, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.


  • Risk Assessment & Analytics
    • Analyze merchant data to assess credit risk and fraud risk for underwriting and ongoing monitoring.
    • Identify emerging fraud patterns and risk trends using advanced analytics.
    • Utilize machine learning models, statistical techniques, and predictive analytics to enhance risk
    • assessment.
    • Develop and refine risk scoring models to automate decision-making and improve risk controls.
  • Reporting & Insights


In this role, you will:

  • Lead or participate in moderately complex initiatives, and delivering insight and decision strategies within analytics and reporting, and contribute to large-scale planning related to Risk Analytics
  • Review and analyze moderately complex data aggregation, forecasting, reporting, and programming models
  • Be responsible for process production, data reconciliation, and model documentation in alignment with policy governance
  • Resolve data, production, business modeling, and lead team to meet Risk Analytics deliverables while leveraging solid understanding of risk reporting policies, modeling strategies, procedures, regulatory requests, and compliance requirements
  • Collaborate and consult with peers, experienced managers, compliance, and technology to resolve modeling, forecasting, and production issues, and achieve analytic and reporting goals
  • Lead projects, teams, and mentor less experienced staff
  • Partner with cross enterprise risk analysts in development of common modeling strategies


Required Qualifications:

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


Desired Qualifications:

  • 3 years of payments industry/merchant services experience
  • Strong experience in data analytics, risk management, and reporting in a payments or financial services environment.
  • Proficiency in AI/ML, SQL, Python, R, or other data analysis tools.
  • Knowledge of merchant services, credit risk, fraud risk, and payments risk mitigation strategies.
  • Experience with risk modeling, machine learning, or predictive analytics is a plus.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to balance business growth with effective risk mitigation strategies.


Job Expectations:

  • Ability to work at one of the approved locations in the job posting
  • Specific compliance policies may apply regarding outside activities and/or personal investing; affected employees will be expected to provide information to the Wells Fargo Personal Account Dealing Team and abide by applicable policy requirements if hired. Information will be shared about expectations during the recruitment process

Posting End Date:

5 Oct 2026

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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