Wells Fargo is a diversified financial services company – providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and consumer finance – for more than 23 million customers through over 6,000 stores, the internet and other distribution channels across North America and elsewhere internationally.  With over 165,000 team members, we’re one of the United States’ top 40 largest private employers.   Wells Fargo is rated AA+ by Standard & Poor, making us the nation’s highest credit-rated bank. Barron’s magazine has ranked Wells Fargo as the “world’s most-respected” financial-services company.   DiversityInc. Magazine has rated us in the Top 50 Companies for Diversity.  

Join Our Team as a Risk Management Consultant  

The Deposit Risk Management - Risk Analysis team is seeking an exceptional risk management professional to join our team in San Francisco.

In this newly developed role, you will be building a new analytical foundation to improve the risk management of deposits (e.g., fraud, credit, identify theft). You will play an integral role in guiding senior management with your ideas and creative solutions, impacting the bank’s deposit portfolio bottom-line.

The position requires an outstanding professional attitude and work ethic to be matched with an analytical curiosity (i.e. digging beneath the numbers) and database expertise. The dynamic nature of the business environment as well as the drive for making more informed decisions makes this an exciting growth opportunity for the right person. There is potential to build a team based on your success.

Key responsibilities:

- Provide analysis and recommend change in risk policies and processes where appropriate to improve risk/revenue tradeoff
- Provide leadership and expertise in quantitative methods and statistical modeling
- Explore new opportunities to improve upon current risk management programs
- Partner and communicate with various groups on projects
- Identify and create solutions for emerging risk related issues.
- Present findings and recommendations to key stakeholders and senior management

Minimum Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree in quantitative discipline (e.g. Economics, Statistics, Finance), MBA preferred

·  5+ years of work experience in a decision support role

· Experienced in conducting in-depth research of business decisions and new opportunities

· Able to quickly identify emerging trends and the drivers behind them

· 2-4 years expert database experience in one or more of the following: SQL Server, Teradata, Oracle, SAS

· Strong SAS statistical modeling experience

· Strong knowledge of SQL

· Clear communication and presentation skills

· Excellent attention to detail and a track record of delivering on commitments

· Comfortable working independently as well as part of a focused team

Preferred Skills:

· Familiar with the retail deposit banking business and operating losses

· Experienced in leading cross-functional project teams

· Advanced mainframe data extraction and manipulations

To indicate interest in the position, please go online to: http://www.wellsfargo.com/careers/findajob then apply to requisition #3205700. Thank you. Ellen Ritt, Recruiter ellen.ritt@wellsfargo.com

Posted 6/6/2008