Senior pricing advisor developing group insurance strategies for Desjardins, North America’s largest cooperative financial group. Setting renewal and contract rates while optimizing growth and profitability.
About the role
- Financial Model Risk Management Lead independently validating finance and analytics models. Strengthening risk governance for Affirm’s transparent buy-now-pay-later credit platform.
Responsibilities
- 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 opportunities for improvement
- Clearly articulate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- 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 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
- 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
- Base pay may include equity rewards
- Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
- 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents
- Health care coverage with all premiums covered for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets with stipends for Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Competitive vacation and holiday schedules
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) enabling employees to buy Affirm shares at a discount
- Reasonable accommodations during the hiring process
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