Finance/Credit Model Risk Manager

About the Role

Join Affirm's dynamic Model Risk Management (MRM) team to dive deep into the models powering critical business decisions, shaping a best-in-class risk framework for robust and reliable financial systems. This is an exciting opportunity for a sharp, driven quantitative professional passionate about the intersection of data science, finance, and risk.

Responsibilities

• Conduct rigorous, independent validations of sophisticated models across finance, treasury, credit, and analytics, through in-depth review, testing, and ongoing monitoring to ensure their accuracy and integrity.
• Identify key model weaknesses and highlight opportunities for improvement, helping teams build stronger, more powerful tools.
• Collaborate with teams across the business to drive the remediation of validation findings.
• Partner with model owners and developers to implement and enhance our company-wide MRM framework, ensuring it remains effective and innovative.
• Work closely with our Accounting, Internal Controls, and Compliance teams to ensure we meet and exceed all audit and regulatory expectations.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience in a technical role like model development, model validation, or data analytics.
• Deep knowledge of ALM, treasury, and corporate finance; experience with credit risk is a strong plus.
• Hands-on ability to script in languages like Python and wrangle large-scale datasets with SQL.
• A BS, MS, or PhD in a quantitative field such as Quantitative Finance, Math, or Data Science.
• A natural problem-solver with a meticulous eye for detail.