Senior Lead Analytics Consultant -- Auto Originations

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Analytics Consultant to support the Auto Originations business. This role is responsible for driving credit strategy, delivering high-impact insights, and influencing decisions that optimize portfolio performance.

Why Wells Fargo:

Are you looking for more? Find it here. At Wells Fargo, we're more than a financial services leader – we’re a global trailblazer committed to driving innovation, empowering communities, and helping our customers succeed. We believe that a meaningful career is much more than just a job – it’s about finding all of the elements to help you thrive, in one place. Living the Well Life means you’re supported in life, not just work. It means having robust benefits, competitive compensation, and programs designed to help you find work-life balance and well-being. You’ll be rewarded for investing in your community, celebrated for being your authentic self, and empowered to grow. And we’re recognized for it – Wells Fargo once again ranked in the top five on the 2026 LinkedIn Top Companies list of best workplaces “to grow your career” in the U.S. Join us!

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 losses within credit 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
• 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
• Develop business strategies that will drive growth, profitability, and competitive advantage for Wells Fargo
• Develop, test, analyze and implement strategies to achieve the financial objective relevant to macro-economic conditions
• Work closely with cross functional teams (Tech, Product, Risk, Operations) to drive impact on a given product, problem, or initiative

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:

• Experience with scripting languages to develop analytics automation
• Ability to use imperfect information to solve complex problems and make strategic recommendations
• Strong skills using statistical/data science tools such as SAS, R, Python, etc.
• Lead development of visualizations and dashboards in Tableau, PowerBI, etc.
• Experience with auto lending
• Proven ability to work effectively across teams and organizational levels to make high-impact decisions and complete challenging assignments 
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills with the ability to quickly recognize and resolve problems and get to the root cause
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Strong conceptual thinking and ability to drive clarity in ambiguity while dealing with credit and operational problems
• Outstanding problem solving and decision-making skills based on analytics

Job Expectations:

• Willingness to work on-site at one of the stated locations on the job opening.
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Posting Locations:

• Irving, TX - 401 Las Colinas Blvd.
• Charlotte, NC - 550 S. Tryon St.
• Chandler, AZ – 2800 S. Price Rd

Posting End Date: 

3 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 co