Lead Data Management Analyst - BSA/AML Data

About this role:
Wells Fargo is embarking on a multiyear transformation journey aimed at building a centralized capability to store, manage and analyze Financial Crimes Compliance Operations (FCO) data to fulfill the Bank's BSA / AML regulatory, compliance and risk commitments. Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Data Management Analyst candidate with experience in data governance to join a skilled team solving key strategic problems associated with the transformation effort.
The BSA /AML Data Product and Transformation team will deliver to our stakeholders curated financial crimes-related data products, which are valuable, understandable, and trustworthy to our stakeholders, the Operations and Risk analytics communities. Success in this role will enable faster delivery of the program's objectives, which include standing up data products to drive our regulatory, compliance, and risk commitments.
In this role, you will:

• Organize and lead complex companywide initiatives to ensure that data quality is maintained so that data can effectively support business processes
• Oversee analysis and reporting in support of regulatory requirements
• Identify and recommend analysis of data quality or integrity issues
• Evaluate data quality metrics and data quality audits to benchmark the state of data quality
• Make decisions in complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of data governance standards and procedures
• Identify new data sources and develop recommendations for assessing the quality of new data
• Serve as relationship manager for a line of business
• Consult with and provide recommendations to senior management regarding assessments of the current state of data and metadata quality within area of assigned responsibility
• Represent client in cross-functional groups to develop companywide data governance strategies
• Strategically collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level to senior managers to coordinate and drive collaboration on solution design and remediation execution
• Build a solid understanding of the current state of the data and systems underpinning various first-line financial crimes compliance processes, such as screening data flows (PEP, negative news, sanctions), customer due diligence (CDD), and customer exits across all five lines of business.
• Collaborate with senior business stakeholders to document data flows, data elements, cadence/timing, systems of record / authorized data stores, lineage, and data transformation
• Create and maintain data product roadmaps throughout the data product life cycle with detailed specifications, requirements, and flows for data capabilities
• Assess data product solutions for optimal performance and resolve data product issues
• Liaise with other project teams to understand key interdependencies, shared challenges and opportunities, and constraints.
• Contribute to a data dictionary to help normalize terminology across various lines of business

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Data Management, Business Analysis, Analytics, or Project Management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Subject matter expertise on data governance, data information modeling, and data aggregation controls.
• Deep knowledge and understanding of data integrity management practices and procedures.
• Knowledge and understanding of financial industry, Compliance, FCRM, associated regulatory standards and agencies, BSA/AML, sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), negative news screening, and associated reporting requirements.
• Knowledge of the modern data stack and experience performing complex data analysis, research, and visualization using tools such as SQL, SAS, PowerBI, Alteryx, etc.
• Familiar with Hadoop / Google BigQuery / Spark / Vertex AI.
• Experience with Wealth &d Investment Management customer and product data.
• Experience with root cause analysis and issue management.
• Experience communicating and presenting complex information to multiple levels of the organization.
• Ability to identify risk factors and ensure enactment of appropriate controls.
• Ability to take initiative and work independently with minimal supervision in a structured environment.
• Ability to translate and summarize complex data into understandable, actionable information and recommendations.
• Financial Crimes certifications Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS) or Certified BSA/AML Professional (CBAP)

Job Expectations:

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• This position is not eligible for VISA sponsorship

Work Location:
401 S Tryon St
Charlotte, NC 28202
Posting End Date:
28 Aug 2025
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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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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