Financial Model Risk Management Lead

🕒 6 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $164k - $224k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔒 Insurance

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Affirm

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Fintech • B2C • eCommerce

Affirm is a financial technology company that offers a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service, allowing consumers to make purchases and pay for them over time with flexible payment plans. Affirm eliminates hidden fees and compound interest, providing clear terms and conditions for its users. The company also offers the Affirm Card, a debit card that allows users to request to pay over time for larger purchases or pay in full for smaller ones. Affirm partners with various retailers across multiple categories, including electronics, apparel, and travel, providing customers with the convenience of paying over time at checkout both online and in physical stores. Affirm's services are integrated with Apple Pay, enabling customers to make payments seamlessly from their iPhone or iPad.

📋 Description

• Perform independent challenges of financial and analytics quantitative models, including ALM, allowance/loss forecasting, loan transition models, corporate financial planning models, take-up and engagement models, and related decision-support analytics • Lead end-to-end validation engagements on high-complexity, high-criticality models • Identify model weaknesses, limitations, and improvement opportunities • Clearly articulate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Collaborate with model owners and stakeholders across Finance, Quantitative Research, and Growth Analytics to remediate findings and strengthen model governance • Partner cross-functionally to implement and maintain Affirm's Model Risk Management framework • Partner with Internal Audit, Internal Controls, Accounting, and Compliance to resolve audit, regulatory, and examiner requests on time

🎯 Requirements

• 4–6 years of professional experience in model development, model validation, quantitative finance, or data analytics, with meaningful exposure to financial and/or analytics model validation • Deep and broad knowledge of corporate finance, treasury, ALM, and/or actuarial/statistical forecasting • Experience in credit underwriting or credit risk management is a plus • Proven ability to work with scripting languages such as Python and large-scale datasets such as SQL • Comfort reviewing models built in Excel, Python, Databricks, or similar environments • Experience with statistical modeling, time-series forecasting, simulation, and/or machine learning techniques applied to finance and analytics use cases • BS, MS, or PhD in a quantitative field such as Quantitative Finance, Financial Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or Data Science • Detail-oriented and intellectually curious about data, models, and business context • Critical thinking and structured problem-solving skills • Extraordinary interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills • Ability to influence model owners, present to senior stakeholders, and navigate cross-functional remediation

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity rewards may be included in total compensation • Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending • 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents • Dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents • Flexible Spending Wallets with stipends for Technology, Food, Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) enabling discounted Affirm shares • Reasonable accommodations during the hiring process