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United States, San Francisco 185000.00 - 300000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted April 24, 2026
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Job Description
Wells Fargo is seeking a Credit Risk Senior Manager to serve as a senior risk leader within Transaction Risk Management. This role provides strategic guidance to executive leadership while leading high-impact initiatives that shape risk strategies, strengthen controls, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions across high-volume channels such as ATM, Mobile Banking, and Branch. This position is ideal for a seasoned credit or transaction risk professional who thrives in complex, fast-moving tactical environments and has experience leading teams, influencing senior stakeholders, and solving enterprise-level risk challenges. The role partners closely with business, technology operations and governance teams to balance customer experience, loss mitigation, regulatory expectations, and business growth.
Job Responsibility
Design and implement transaction risk strategies, policies, and controls that translate risk appetite into actionable decisioning and measurable business outcomes
Partner with business and product teams to embed risk strategies directly into platforms, workflows, and customer journeys
Actively shape strategy tradeoffs across loss, customer experience, operational efficiency, and regulatory expectations
Lead hands-on resolution of complex, cross-functional risk problems by diagnosing root causes and designing scalable, durable solutions
Own initiatives from strategy formulation through build, rollout, validation, and post-implementation performance tuning
Drive coordinated execution across analytics, technology, operations, and governance partners
Continuously analyze portfolio performance, customer behavior, fraud patterns, and policy outcomes to refine strategies in production
Calibrate rules, models, thresholds, and segmentation to reduce losses, minimize false positives/negatives, and close control gaps
Translate insights into concrete strategy changes, pilots, and measurable improvements
Build and operationalize risk strategies supporting trillion-dollar transaction volumes, with emphasis on automation, scalability, and real-time decisioning
Evaluate, test, and integrate new internal and external data sources into risk strategies and decision frameworks
Conduct targeted deep-dive analyses to support strategic decisions, issue resolution, and investment prioritization
Manage, mentor, and develop analytical and risk professionals
Set priorities, allocate resources, and foster a strong risk culture focused on accountability, curiosity, and continuous improvement
Collaborate with internal partners including Audit, Legal, Compliance, Technology, and external agencies as required
Support a strong control environment aligned with regulatory expectations and internal governance standards
Strong leadership in the area of Model Governance
Requirements
7+ years of Credit Risk experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education
3+ years of management or leadership experience, including people leadership, initiative leadership, or senior-level influence across teams
Nice to have
Demonstrated experience leading complex risk initiatives with enterprise-level impact
Deep experience in advanced analytics, statistical and predictive modeling, and large-scale data analysis in credit, fraud, or transaction risk domains
Strong proficiency with SAS, SQL, Python, and data visualization or reporting tools such as Tableau
Experience with model governance, analytical decisioning, and real-time or operational risk use cases
Ability to translate complex analysis into clear, actionable insights that influence senior and executive decision-making
Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., economics, statistics, engineering, data science, finance)
Strong attention to detail, data quality, and control discipline in regulated environments
What we offer
Health benefits
401(k) Plan
Paid time off
Disability benefits
Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance