Assistant Vice President, Model Validation and

hace 2 semanas


Madrid, España Morningstar A tiempo completo

About the Role

DBRS Morningstar is seeking a quantitative analyst (credit risk model reviewer) to join its Independent Review Function (IRF) team as an Assistant Vice President. The role is based in New York, Madrid or Toronto.

Reporting to the Head of IRF, the individual will have lead and backup analyst responsibilities on a portfolio of mainly predictive models and occasionally analytical tools, as well as Structured Finance and Corporate methodologies.

The analyst will be required to have a solid knowledge of credit risk model development and/or validation, working knowledge of several coding language and data science stack, a general knowledge of Structured Finance products - with an emphasis on residential and/or CRE loans and related risk drivers - strong analytical, research and writing skills, organizational abilities, heightened attention for detail and an inquisitive mind. The analyst will prepare IRF committee presentations, reports and related topical research.

Job Responsibilities
- Conducting independent ongoing review and challenge of a portfolio of predictive models and analytical tools in the capacity of primary IRF analyst:

- Become familiar with existing model (and methodology) and past IRF review material
- Interact with Predictive Model Development Team and review model proposal as well as support material provided
- Independently research, collect and compile support material as appropriate
- Facilitate and coordinate IRF discussion groups and IRF committee process
- Coordinate approval from/notification to the board, where applicable
- Maintain records as appropriate
- Successfully meet the target review date
- Cooperating with other IRF analysts to the review of their assigned models/methodologies
- Conducting and cooperating to the independent review and validation of new and materially changed models
- Discussing and contributing to the assessment of materiality of the changes.
- Working with project planning managers, predictive model/methodology development team and other stakeholders.
- Representing DBRS Morningstar with external stakeholders
- Communicate with the regulator, as appropriate
- Participate to key industry conferences as instructed
- Creating, populating and delivering management and board reporting
- Supporting the MDs/SVPs/VPs of the IRF with planning, managing and execution of IRF activities

**Qualifications**:

- Background in a technical discipline (Statistics, Mathematics, Quantitative Finance or related fields)
- 5+ years of hands-on experience and solid skills of credit risk/securitization modeling
- Experience reviewing and/or developing models in a similar environment
- Experience with: R, R Shiny and/or SAS, use of Jupyter notebooks to communicate results, Working knowledge of Python data science stack (numpy, pandas, sci-kit learn, Tensorflow)
- Strong math, logic, and problem-solving skills
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills in addition to strong presentation and relation skills
- Ability to challenge technical concepts
- Ability to communicate technical concepts in a non-technical jargon to senior stakeholders
- Enthusiasm for new challenges, using advanced techniques and creativity to find novel solutions
- Working knowledge or GitHub or similar version control systems
- Very good knowledge of the English language.

Nice to have
- Fluency in a second EU language a plus
- Chartered Financial Analyst designation a plus
- Experience performing data science within the fixed income space a plus

**About Us**

DBRS Morningstar is a global credit ratings business, currently with 700 employees in eight offices globally. Formed through the July 2019 acquisition of DBRS by Morningstar, Inc., the ratings business is the fourth-largest provider of credit ratings in the world.

DBRS Morningstar is committed to empowering investor success, serving the market through leading-edge technology and raising the bar for the industry. DBRS Morningstar is a market leader in Canada, the U.S. and Europe in multiple asset classes.

DBRS Morningstar rates more than 2,600 issuers and 54,000 securities worldwide and is driven to bringing more clarity, diversity of opinion, and responsiveness to the ratings process. DBRS Morningstar’s approach and size provide the agility to respond to customers’ needs, while being large enough to provide the necessary expertise and resources.
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