Senior Analyst - Payments Analytics

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Analyst
In this role, you will:

• Lead or participate in moderately complex programs and initiatives for data quality, governance, and metadata activities
• Design and conduct moderately complex analysis to identify and remediate data quality, data integrity, process, and control gaps
• Analyze, assess, and test data controls and data systems to ensure quality and risk compliance standards are met and adhere to data governance standards and procedures
• Identify data quality metrics and execute data quality audits to benchmark the state of data quality
• Develop recommendations for optimal approaches to resolve data quality issues and implement plans for assessing the quality of new data sources leveraging domain expertise and data, business, or process analysis to inform and support solution design
• Lead project teams and mentor less experienced staff members
• Drive planning and coordination on moderately complex remediation efforts acting as central point of contact
• Consult with clients to assess the current state of data and metadata quality within area of assigned responsibility
• Participate in cross-functional groups to develop companywide data governance strategies
• Provide input into communication routines with stakeholders, business partners, and experienced leaders

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ 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:

• 4+ years of Data Management, Business Analysis, Analytics or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 2+ years of experience with BI tools such as Tableau or Power BI
• 4+ years of SQL experience
• Have a deep technical and nuanced understanding of various Payment rail.
• Highly collaborative and inclusive approach with proven track record of delivering acknowledged value.
• Must-have skills: SQL (Expert), Python (Expert),Teradata/any other RDBMS, experience in creating DQs/Controls and with trend/variance analysis, Tableau or Power BI
• A storyteller with the demonstrated ability to create compelling narratives from data
• Have worked in Banking domain (preferably in Enterprise Payments or Treasury).
• Experience with master reference data such as Customer hierarchies, legal entities, and product taxonomies
• Knowledge and understanding of relational and no-SQL databases, structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
• Knowledge and understanding of Big Data technologies (Data lake, cloud-based infrastructure), architectures that support real-time analytics; and flexible data models to support querying of unstructured data
• Good-to-have skills: GCP, BigQuery, Azure Synapse Analytics, Python, Hadoop, Data Lakes, Big Data Accelerator technologies (Dremio, DataBricks, Snowflake) to optimize big data visualization

In this role, you will:

• Contribute to the development of project specifications with internal podmates (analyst, visualizer, lead) and jointly present solutions to stakeholders and users to gain alignment in advance of execution
• Analyze and report on customer specific data to enable appropriate product positioning, managing reciprocal arrangements, etc.
• Understand data to identify and develop new customer use cases or business cases, supporting sales or pricing strategies, investigating risks and issues.
• Develop queries and other programmatic logic to effectively source, aggregate and combine data in line with product / project initiatives.
• Create, deliver, and maintain large, scalable, and sustainable self-service reporting and dashboard products.
• Lead in utilizing data visualization best practices to tell stories that drive both engagement and action; influence partners to integrate data into decision-making, increase data literacy, and build acceptance of tools, programs, and services.
• Proactively manage risk including measures to minimize inaccuracy and clarify the meaning of data which is delivered
• Document development processes, key decisions made and any risks or open items.
• Support transition of code to production environments.

Posting End Date:
13 Aug 2025
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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