While some knowledge of and background in macroeconomic/financial forecasting or model development is useful, we encourage applicants with a strong model development background (even if no experience specific to macroeconomic/financial forecasting).
Responsibilities:
- Lead model development efforts to build best-in-class models for a variety of macroeconomic and financial concepts, including GDP, unemployment, HPI, interest rates, FX, and credit spreads.
- Conduct rigorous analytical research to identify causal drivers and to support methodological approaches
- Serve as an expert resource with respect to econometrics and statistical testing
- Provide guidance to junior model developers
- Produce macroeconomic scenario forecasts for macroeconomic variables in firmwide regulatory related processes, such as CECL, CCAR and IFRS 9
- Utilize Python to build and test statistical models. Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
- Communicate results to diverse audiences.
- Participate on teams to solve business problems.
- Identify modeling opportunities that yield measurable business results.
Qualifications:
- 4+ years of post-PhD work experience, or 6+ years of post-Master’s work experience
- Strong understanding of quantitative model development approaches, preferably obtained through model development experience at a peer financial institution
- Experience as a lead model developer, including mentoring and guiding junior developers
- Very strong knowledge of econometrics, with some knowledge of time series econometrics
- Practical experience writing programs to build and test predictive models
- Proficient in Python
- Basic understanding of economic and/or financial market concepts
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
- Self-motivated and detail oriented
- Demonstrated project management and organizational skills and capability to handle multiple projects at one time.
- Good knowledge and understanding of a variety of model development techniques covering risk models. Practical experience across multiple techniques (e.g., time series, LASSO, XGBoost) is helpful.
Education:
- Master's degree required, Ph.D. preferred
Risk ManagementRisk Analytics, Modeling, and ValidationFull timeIrving Texas United States$156,160.00 - $234,240.00
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