Risk Analytics Consultant

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Risk Analytics Consultant.

Department Overview:

Enterprise Finance drives financial management for the company, maintains, and enhances risk and financial controls. Key functions within Enterprise Finance include finance and accounting; Treasury; corporate development, mergers, and acquisitions; Data Management and Insights, the Customer Remediation Center of Excellence, Enterprise Shared Services, Business Process Management, and Corporate Strategy. Enterprise Finance informs shareholders, regulators, taxing authorities, team members, and leaders of the companys financial performance through earnings releases, investor meetings and conferences, and meetings with regulators and credit rating agencies, following appropriate reporting guidelines.

The Enterprise Finance function contains the Corporate Controllers division, which includes the Enterprise Controls & Oversight (ECO) group. The Controllers Division is responsible for the accuracy of the Companys financial statements, establishing corporate accounting policies, preparing SEC and regulatory reports and ensuring the adequacy of internal controls.

Team Overview

This role is in Independent Price Verification (IPV) group that is responsible for ensuring accurate valuations of and performing validation processes across all capital markets securities and loan products, including but not limited to Credit, Rate, Equity, Agency Structured Products, Non-Agency Structured Products and loan products in addition to derivatives.

The candidate will be responsible for the consistent application of consistent price validation policies throughout the corporate wide population. The position requires an understanding of various security and derivative products, in addition to COSO principles, inclusive of control monitoring and reconciliation procedures.

Additionally the position will be responsible for various month end and mid-month IPV and management reporting. Individual will be expected to provide leadership, assist with problem identification and solutions, and share best practices.

This role will be required to frequently interact with senior management, business unit leaders, internal and external auditors, regulators and other business partners. The successful candidate will be a highly motivated team player and a self-starter who is accustomed to working in complex organizations, partnering with a diverse group of stakeholders, and achieving results. The candidate should be flexible, be able to withstand challenges and adapt accordingly.

This is an exciting opportunity to help ensure high quality standards and compliance with the firms valuation and validation policies.

This role requires a highly organized individual that is able to multi-task effectively and can quickly grasp complex instruments. Excellent project management, planning and communication skills are required as this position needs to be highly skilled in anticipating and articulating issues and communicating those issues to various audiences within the organization. Modeling knowledge related to a variety of models will be helpful to be effective in this role.

In this role, you will:

• Participate in less complex analysis and modeling initiatives, and identify opportunity for process production, data reconciliation, and model documentation improvements within Risk Management
• Review and analyze programing models to extract data, and manipulate databases to provide statistical and financial modeling, and exercise independent judgment to guide new and existing projects with medium risk deliverables
• Coordinate and consolidate the production of monthly, quarterly, and annual performance reports for more experienced management
• Present recommendations for resolving data reconciliation, production, and database issues
• Exercise independent judgment while developing expertise in policy governance, risk projects, and regulatory requests
• Collaborate and consult with peers, managers, experienced managers, compliance, including various lines of business

Required Qualifications:

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

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong years of experience in one or a combination of the following: Analytics, Reporting or Internal Audit.
• BS / BA or higher in Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics or Business.
• Working knowledge of capital markets products, including securities and derivatives
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to articulate complex concepts in a clear manner.
• Strong understanding of Internal Controls including implementation
• Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities.
• Experience working across processes and posses a strong aptitude in identification of risk and controls.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision or in a highly interactive team environment.
• Experience in preparation and presentation of decks to the senior management.
• Experience in handling Audit walkthroughs.
• Experience in Product Control role or Account Reconciliations.
• Experience with Tableau reporting capabilities.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL.