About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Fraud & Claims Operations Director to report to the Head of Claims and Recovery. This group is responsible for end-to-end claims processing for all dispute types. This individual will lead the ATM Debit Card Claims (ADCC) team of approximately 2000 employees located in U.S. India & Manila. The leader will contribute to broad Consumer Operations strategies with a One Wells Fargo lens by living Wells Fargos company expectations. This collaborative leader must be capable of initiating action and managing change and will be skilled at building bridges to gain consensus.
In this role you will:
- Manage and develop specialized teams of managers and professional individual contributors with a focus on executing risk-based fraud and claims program.
- Identify formulate and implement risk policies procedures and controls for the respective business or enterprise functions associated or affected by its outcomes.
- Identify opportunities and strategies for formulating and implementing risk policies procedures and controls for business or enterprise function.
- Address issues and maintain an awareness of fraud and claims activity across the company.
- Lead fraud and claims team by making strategic decisions to resolve reporting of fraud and claims activities.
- Interpret and develop range of procedures controls and trend data in order to ensure proactive identification of fraud and claims activity.
- Collaborate with and influence immediate fraud and claims colleagues as well as more experienced business leaders.
- Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Fraud and Claims Operations
- Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy.
- Lead inflight large transformational efforts and responsibility for on-going process and systemic transformation initiatives.
Required Qualifications:
- 8 years of Fraud Claim Investigation or Policy Violations Risk Management or Compliance experience including Management or leadership experience or equivalent experience demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education
- 4 years of management or leadership experience
Desired Qualifications:
- 8 years fraud and or claims operational management experience supporting large complex organization(s).
- Experience leading a fast paced demanding and deadline driven operational environment.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams with a high level of team member engagement.
- Experience creating and executing competitive and innovative operational business strategies processes and policies.
- Effectively partner and influence at the senior and executive level.
- Proven ability to drive execution and translate strategies into specific goals tactics action plans and deliverables.
- Proven success attracting leading and engaging a diverse team with different levels of experience across multiple geographies and creating a culture of service and efficiency.
- Comprehensive knowledge of Fraud Operations organizational structures functional roles and corresponding capabilities to assess inherent risks.
- Ability to build an external customer/internal client driven environment.
- Experience creating and executing competitive and innovative operational business strategies processes and policies along with the proven ability to drive execution
- Solid understanding of a broad cross-section of products and services to consumers and business in order to drive a customer centric approach.
- Ability to interact with all levels of an organization and develop collaborative partnerships with other business and functional areas
- Strong risk management leadership skills and experience.
- Deep understanding of ever-evolving governance processes and regulatory environments including experience and exposure in working with internal and external regulators.
- Ability to communicate emulate and cultivate the Wells Fargos company expectations as outlined in our leadership objectives.
- Knowledge of or experience with digital call center technologies/solutions
- Experience in building high performing teams focused on driving business results through leadership effectiveness and team member engagement.
- Strong transformational leadership relationship management influencing vision and execution skills.
- Sense of urgency passion for results and personal accountability for achievement while making difficult decisions based on a mixture of analysis experience and judgement.
Job Expectations:
- Ability to travel up to 40% of the time.
- This position offers a hybrid work schedule
- Willingness to work on-site in one of the listed locations
Locations:
Charlotte NC Chandler AZ San Antonio TX
Posting End Date:
18 Sep 2025
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status as a protected veteran or any other legally protected characteristic.
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 units risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
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