Global Advisors Model Risk Senior Associate

Our Team
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Sitting within the 2nd line of defense, this Senior Associate will report jointly to the Operational Risk Manager of the Poland branch and the Head of GA Model Risk team. The GA Risk team is made up of over 70 risk professionals based in London, Dublin, Germany, and Poland, together with the US and Asia. As a combined group, we are responsible for identification, control, and reporting of operational, investment, credit and liquidity risk globally.

Your Duties and Responsibilities
As a member of the Model Risk team, you will:

• Support Model Risk Management in achieving regulatory compliance while gaining efficiency and productivity
• Review the model workflow and identifying gaps in model development, implementation, and usage process and documentation
• Collaborate with portfolio managers, traders, researchers, IT, and Corporate Model Risk Management to conduct independent full scope validation as well as annual reviews of GA investment models
• Review and assess model changes and conduct targeted validation on significant model changes
• Evaluate remediation submissions and ongoing monitoring of GA investment models
• Identify, assess, and report model risks on individual model and aggregate level to management through validation reports for all GA models
• Assist in various ad-hoc requests

Your Qualifications
You will have the following strengths:

• Master's degree in finance, mathematics, statistics, or a related quantitative field, or its equivalent
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English is essential
• Ability to articulate ideas and analysis effectively
• Programming fluency in Python/R/Matlab language is highly preferred
• Ability and self-motivation to master concepts quickly and connect dots
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment and handle multiple priorities to tight deadlines
• CFA or CFA candidacy is preferred
• Past experience in modeling or validation in financial industry is ideal
• Ability to gain trust and respect of business partners while bringing objective and independent challenge to their activities
• Team player
• Seniority dependent on your qualifications