
Analyst, Independent Validation Team – Retail Credit Risk, Model Risk Office
Lloyds Banking Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Halifax • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £36,224 - £38,130 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Provide support with independent reviews of all aspects of Lloyds Banking Group models, including new developments, model changes, periodic validations and ongoing monitoring
- Independent validation (partial or complete recoding, development or building of challenger models)
- Assist with independent review and challenge of model developments (data profiling, selection, validation, back-testing, stress testing and model documentation)
- Detailed evaluation of models, including their: design, calibration and validation, operation, usage, reporting, and governance
- Documentation of validation findings, providing insight and evaluation of weaknesses
- Presentation of independent model review to senior members of the team and Personal Approver
- Develop knowledge of model risk and regulatory requirements and standards pertaining to risk models
- Engagement with colleagues across the Group to manage relationships and challenge constructively
Requirements
- At least a degree level qualification covering quantitative content e.g. mathematics, physics or equivalent skills derived from experience
- Experience of model build techniques e.g. regression or decision trees and programming languages e.g. C/C++, R, Python or SAS
- Ability to make sound model judgements, taking into account model performance and regulation
- An understanding of modelling techniques and an awareness of model validation and current regulation that may impact the Group
- Awareness of the banking business and associated risk management approaches sufficient to understand models in the context of the business
- Building effective relationship management whereby constructive challenge is undertaken in a timely and orderly fashion
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing, across peer groups
- Ability to overcome challenges to deliver business results
- Has ethics and integrity at the heart of every decision, and creates an environment that encourages high performance, openness, honesty and integrity
Benefits
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance-related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 24 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
model validationmodel developmentdata profilingback-testingstress testingregressiondecision treesC++RPython
Soft Skills
relationship managementconstructive challengeclear communicationproblem-solvingethicsintegrityhigh performanceopennesshonestytimely decision-making