
Model Governance and Validation QA Advisor
Fannie Mae
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Texas • Virginia • United States
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Salary
💰 $155,000 - $209,000 per year
About the role
- Maintain a validation quality assurance framework to ensure model validation teams complete model validation activities commensurate with requirements established in enterprise model risk policy, standards, and procedures
- Perform quality assurance reviews and recommend solutions for compliance with internal policies, standards, and procedures and regulatory guidance.
- Complete quality assurance reviews and other quality assurance-related program elements across model risk teams, 2nd line functions, and other stakeholders
- Maintain and report comprehensive program metrics and key performance indicators to colleagues and senior leaders.
- Provide support for governance activities, including policy, standard, procedure, job aid, and template updates; reporting; training; and cross-functional coordination.
- Apply understanding of relevant business context to interpret results, monitor performance, and assess risks, which may include the application of mathematic, statistical, and econometric techniques.
- Provide innovative, thorough, and practical solutions that support business strategies and initiatives.
- Perform ad hoc quantitative analyses, modeling, or programming using SAS, SQL, R, or Python.
- Utilize advanced data mining and/or statistical techniques to develop analytic insights, sound hypotheses, and informed recommendations.
- Identify opportunities to apply quantitative methods to improve business performance.
- Counsel teams on company policies and industry-wide modeling practices.
- Inform the team's direction for validation or testing strategies to monitor performance, and assess risks.
- Communicate technical subject matter clearly and concisely to team leadership and internal/external stakeholders both verbally and through written communication.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and quality excellence.
Requirements
- 6 years in model governance, model validation, or model development
- Excellent oral and written communication
- Experience presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand
- Excellent analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
- Expertise in quantitative analytics applied to one or more areas within credit, interest rate, counterparty credit risk, and/or fixed income valuation in the financial services industry
- Adept at analyzing data to identify trends or relationships to inform conclusions about the data; critical thinking
- Influencing skills including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict
- Bachelors degree
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
- Paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
model validationquality assurancequantitative analyticsSASSQLRPythondata miningstatistical techniqueseconometric techniques
Soft Skills
communicationanalytical problem-solvingdecision-makingcritical thinkinginfluencingnegotiatingpersuadingfacilitating meetingsresolving conflictprioritization
Certifications
Bachelors degree