Affirm
Financial Model Risk Management Lead
Remote US · Mid
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About the role
- MRM serves as Affirm's second line of defense, establishing and overseeing an effective model risk management framework to identify, quantify, monitor, mitigate, and report on model risk throughout the company.
Responsibilities
- Perform independent challenges of financial and analytics quantitative models - including ALM, allowance/loss forecasting, loan transition models (LTM), corporate financial planning models, take-up and engagement models, and related decision-support analytics - through rigorous validation and ongoing monitoring
- Lead end-to-end validation engagements on high-complexity, high-criticality models
- Collaborate with model owners and stakeholders across Finance, Quantitative Research, and Growth Analytics to remediate validation findings and strengthen model governance
- Partner cross-functionally to implement and maintain the company's MRM framework
- Partner with Internal Audit, Internal Controls, Accounting, and Compliance to ensure timely resolution of audit, regulatory, and examiner requests
Requirements
- Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office.
Nice to have
- Experience in credit underwriting, credit risk management is a plus
Compensation
- Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range.
- USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $185,000 - $245,000
- USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $164,000 - $224,000
Benefits
- Experience with statistical modeling, time-series forecasting, simulation, and/or machine learning techniques as applied to finance and analytics use cases
- Equity Grade - 8
Company info
- We're looking for an intelligent, driven professional to join our Model Risk Management (MRM) team as a Lead validator for Finance and Analytics models.
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