Lloyds Banking Group

Analyst, Independent Validation Team – Retail Credit Risk, Model Risk Office

Lloyds Banking Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: HalifaxUnited Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £36,224 - £38,130 per year

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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
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
relationship managementconstructive challengeclear communicationproblem-solvingethicsintegrityhigh performanceopennesshonestytimely decision-making