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Assistant Manager - Credit Risk Model Assurance

Employer
Cambridge Credentials
Location
Leeds, Maidstone, United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive Salary
Closing date
Oct 1, 2020

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Job Role
Accounts Assistant
Sector
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

One of our Big 4 clients has seen significant growth in their Credit Risk Assurance team in the North of England due to additional client mandates in this region and they are growing their regional team as a result. Currently the regional team consists of a Senior Manager, a Manager, four Assistant Managers and this position is an additional key headcount to help support the validation and review of IFRS 9 and AIRB credit risk models.


The role:


You will be acting as a technical subject matter specialist on the external audit of credit risk models (IFRS 9, CECL, Regulatory) at our audit entities and conducting procedures that include but are not limited to:


  • Technical model development documentation review;
  • Technical model validation documentation review;
  • Assessment of model performance; and
  • Independent replication of any of the above.


You will also be acting as a technical subject matter specialist on the external audit of audit entities end to end credit risk process and conducting procedures that include but are not limited to:


  • Credit risk governance reviews;
  • Credit risk policy and procedure reviews;
  • Individual credit file reviews; and
  • Substantive testing of any of the above.


In addition to this you will be:


  • Advising non audit clients on the impact of changing requirements in provision accounting standards (IFRS9) and helping clients validate or build credit risk measurement models.
  • Completing technical analysis for workstreams within both IFRS9 and credit risk modelling engagements.
  • You will be required to apply you skills to a broad range of banking risk related issues, supporting both regional and national propositions.


Knowledge & experience required:


  • Experience working in a credit risk modelling role within a financial or professional services firm.
  • Practical experience in credit risk modelling techniques
  • Knowledge and practical experience in accounting and risk requirements as related to IFRS9, CECL and regulatory credit risk models
  • Detailed working knowledge and experience of all aspects of model development and validation including the following: data extraction and pre-processing, modular model development, user acceptance testing and model performance assessments
  • Relevant Sectoral experience - developing Retail/ Wholesale banking PD/EAD/LGD models.
  • Knowledge and experience of credit risk processes, governance and documentation.


Qualifications & Skills:


  • Ability to communicate risk/finance requirements of IFRS9 to the reciprocal function, i.e. risk to finance and finance to risk.
  • Ability to understand and execute programming code including SAS, R, Python.
  • Flexibility and agility to contribute in a senior capacity to a broad range of banking risk engagements.
  • Excellent oral / written communication, planning, project management, networking and influencing skills.
  • Flexibility to work across the UK (and internationally) where required.


Competative salary + flexible working + bonus + benefits.


If you are interested to know more about this opportunity then apply within or contact Karl Alliban on 0207 190 9544 / karl.alliban@camcredentials.com

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