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Lead Financial Crimes Officer

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Jun 2025

💰 $217,200/yr($111,100/yr – $217,200/yr)

About the role

At Wells Fargo, we are looking for talented people who will put our customers at the center of everything we do. It all begins with outstanding talent. It all begins with you.

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Financial Crimes Officer to join the Financial Crimes Intelligence (FC Intel) Team within Financial Crimes Risk Management (FCRM). Learn more about the career areas and business divisions at wellsfargojobs.com. Financial Crimes Intel provides Financial Crimes Risk Management (FCRM), business groups, and enterprise functions with industry-leading intelligence on financial crimes threats, typologies, and their impact to Wells Fargo. Financial Crimes Intel supports FCRM programs, teams and business groups through reviews utilizing company data, external event information and the delivery of intelligence assessments.

In this role, you will:

Utilize internal and external data to provide insights, develop analytical strategies, and provide analytical support regarding a wide array of business initiatives in the Financial Crimes space.
Partner with business and technical groups to design and implement analytic solutions; provide influence and leadership in the identification of new tools and methods to analyze data.
Perform detailed analysis to detect transactional and relationship risk insights, trends, anomalies and schemes across multiple businesses or products.
Lead exploratory transactional reviews to scope target populations, managing and coordinating partner feedback and reviewing risk presentations that require visibility from senior management and governance.
Lead and support interactions with internal and external partners to advance intelligence initiatives and information sharing involving AML, CFT, and Fraud typologies and relevant industry risks and trends.
Maintain awareness of and accountability to global financial crimes risks and trends and geopolitical events impacting Wells Fargo business operations.
Perform investigative research, root cause assessment and consulting regarding highly complex financial crimes transactions, policy violations and suspicious situations with moderate to high risk.
Partners with key stakeholders to develop strategies to identify and mitigate financial crimes risk at an enterprise level through innovative analysis.
Leads projects, teams or functions as a subject-matter expert to less experienced team members and partners.

Required Qualifications:

5+ years of Financial Crimes, Operational Risk, Fraud, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery, Corruption experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

Strong SQL Query Writing experience, preferably in Teradata or Oracle environments
Demonstrated experience of BSA/AML/OFAC laws and regulations and experience with practical application in a financial crimes risk program
Experience with PowerBI, Tableau, or other business intelligence and analytics tools.
Previous intelligence experience in the private, military, or government sectors.
Experience with empirical research methods in quantitative fields such as statistics, finance, economics, or social sciences.
Strong understanding of Wells Fargo AML policy/procedures, higher risk customers, and complex business models.
Active Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and/or Certified Fraud Examiner
Ability to think strategically, implement, and deliver business objectives
Ability to execute in a fast paced, high demand, environment while balancing multiple priorities
Advanced MS Excel with the ability to manage extremely large and complex sets of transactional data.
Strong ability to develop partnerships and collaborate across groups.
Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.