VP - Wholesale Risk Modeling - Bank - IIT/ISI

Discipline - Banking

Subsector - Analytics

Location - Bangalore

About our Client - Our client is one of the largest Global Banks with demonstrated strengths in both Commercial and Retail Banking. They are in the process of growing their Wholesale Risk Analytics function in Bangalore and are looking to hire specialists in the Wholesale Risk Modeling with demonstrated leadership capabilities

Job Description - Reporting into the Senior Vice President, your key responsibilities shall be:

- Development & maintenance of models of Probability of Default (PD), Loss Given Default (LGD), Exposure at Default (EAD) and correlations for the Wholesale Banking portfolio

- Develop model code and support model testing prior to deployment in the group's strategic risk model system

- Leadership, Risk Strategy and Solutioning Responsibility

- Perform statistical regression analysis in designing, estimating and monitoring model performance

- Submitting and presenting model annual review and implementation proposals to divisional and group wholesale credit model committees for approval

- Ensuring that the review, validation, recalibration and implementation of each model is completed in accordance with the team's detailed work plan

- Ensuring that all model related work meets regulatory requirements and internal policy standards

- Manage a team of Specialist Risk Modelers while working on Projects Managing relationship with business heads and other stakeholders across the wholesale and retail bank to support them in statistical and risk modeling

- Research and develop new model and enhancements of existing model suites to improve accuracy, timeliness, forward looking capability and responsiveness to economic environment

- Work closely with business and product management to provide value adding risk analytics solutions for the enhancement of risk-return tradeoff

- Review, monitor and back test credit risk models performance

The Successful Candidate - Masters/Ph.D. in Economics, Statistics, Financial Engineering from a Tier 1 Institute like IITs, ISI, DSE etcetera

- At least 10 years of relevant experience of designing, developing, enhancing, and implementing credit risk models/analytics

- Rich leadership experience and executive presence

- Extensive knowledge of credit risk modelling across investment banking or wholesale banking is a must along with excellent knowledge of SAS

- Hands-on experience in all stages of model development (development, validation, tracking, monitoring, implementation) of credit risk models for corporate/commercial/wholesale/investment banking is a must

What's on Offer - Excellent Opportunity to work in Advanced Analytics in a Wholesale Risk Modeling role with one of the largest Global Banks. The organization is known to encourage Work Life Balance and promotes International Mobility

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