Quantitative Analytics Manager

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Quantitative Analytics Manager.

The CDAI group works across the Consumer & Small Business Banking (CSBB), Consumer Lending, and Wealth and Investment Management lines of business to develop coordinated strategies for growth in each of Wells Fargo's customer segments. The team is responsible for designing seamless, engaging customer experiences across products and channels, and building the next-generation digital, data and analytics, and functional capabilities required to deliver toward these objectives.

The Consumer Model Development Centre, within CDAI organization, is looking for an established and proven AI / ML Modeling Manager to join our team and help us solve challenging and interesting business problems through data exploration, advanced analytics and visualization. In this highly valued role, you will manage teams within the Center of Excellence (COEs) with varied competencies, including Modeling, Monitoring, Deployment, and Analytic Quality Review.

This leadership role is highly visible across the Wells Fargo's India and Philippines verticals, and horizontal functions. Incumbent is expected to manage highly matrixed organizations, with additional responsibility to grow the analytic practice serving lines of business and support functions. information to a variety of audiences.

In this role, you will:

• Manage a team responsible for the creation and implementation of low to moderate complex financial areas
• Mitigate operational risk and compute capital requirements
• Determine scope and prioritization of work in consultation with experienced management
• Participate in the development of strategy, policies, procedures, and organizational controls with model users, developers, validators, and technology
• Make decisions and resolve issues regarding operational risks and enable decision making in business, product, marketing, or other functional areas
• Manage a team comprised of quantitative analysts and credit risk analysts
• Interact with internal and external audit or regulators
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Quantitative Analytics
• Mentor and guide talent development of direct reports and assist in hiring talent

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Quantitative Analytical experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 2+ years of leadership experience
• Master's degree or higher in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, statistics, engineering, physics, or computer science

Desired Qualifications:

• Advanced programming exposure in SAS or Python including SQL
• Experience with relational databases Teradata, Oracle or similar database
• Banking, Financial Services Industry or Consumer business experience in Marketing & CRM.
• Hands on industry experience in building large scale end-to-end machine learning systems using a combination of big data tools and programming languages like Scala, Java and/or Python
• Knowledge of parallel and distributed computing frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, MPI, using GPUs
• Experience in machine learning areas such as recommender systems, NLP, pattern recognition, predictive modeling, Artificial Intelligence.
• Experience implementing machine learning algorithms such as support vector machines, decision trees, logistic regression, clustering, neural networks, graphical models etc
• Data exploration and preparation using SAS / SQL or R or any statistical tool. At least 3-5 projects with hands-on experience in Data Science (AI, ML, NLP) with demonstrable knowledge of analytical, technical, statistical and foundational aspects
• Experience in managing a team that interfaces with a broad set of stakeholders across the firm and process/project management
• Ability to guide, mentor and provide technical assistance to the team
• Experience in establishing teams and work processes aligned with contemporary agile methodologies such as Kanban or scrum to improve work efficiencies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate complex ideas in a concise and clear fashion
• Experience building relationships across lines of businesses, influencing partners, as well as providing credible and effective challenge
• Ability to combine a perpetual interest in learning, and deep knowledge of industry best practices/standards to build a world class organization
• Proven track record of developing and leading a team of strong quantitative analysts
• Ability to effectively communicate information to a variety of audiences, and offer thought leadership at a meta level
• Identifies and recommends internal and external data sources, compiles/mines data from multiple, cross business sources; recommends and consults in the development of complex analysis designs
• Ensures adherence to data management/data governance regulations and policies. Data involved may be very large, structured or unstructured, and from multiple sources.
• Persuasive written and verbal communication skills, writing white papers is a plus
• Prior experience of attending prestigious conferences as an attendee or as panelist or speaker is weighed heavily
• Proven experience in innovation, evidenced by successful holding of one or more patents
• Visiting faculty or expert professionals, with the ability to see through the product roadmap for 2 or more years may have an edge in the interview process

Posting End Date:
19 Dec 2024
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Diversity

At Wells Fargo, we believe in diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace; accordingly, we welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, individuals with disabilities, pregnancy, marital status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

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 company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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