People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, the company has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 75+ million customers get more from their money every day.
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As we continue our lightning-fast growth, two things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. We have been certified as a Great Place to Work™ and have over 13,000 employees working around the world, both in-office and remotely. We are looking for more talented individuals who love building great products and redefining success.
Risk at the company operates across all functions, products, and regions to monitor front-line performance and ensure the business operates safely. We need an experienced Model Governance Manager with expertise in data science and advanced analytics for the application, validation, and oversight of ML/AI models, including LLMs and generative AI.
In this role, you will challenge existing modeling processes and elevate them to new standards to support the company's growth, ensuring models drive business decisions, financial reporting, and regulatory compliance.
What You'll Be Doing
- Establishing, maintaining, and enforcing our model risk management (MRM) framework, ensuring models comply with firmwide policies.
- Maintaining model inventory data integrity by resolving exceptions from automated checks and managing model classifications, changes, and deactivations.
- Partnering with the Technology team to maintain systems supporting model risk management workflows, driving efforts towards increased efficiency and automation.
- Engaging with auditors and regulators on model risk management topics.
- Overseeing process efficiency, including reporting and controls assessments.
- Coordinating with key parties to train stakeholders on policy and related requirements, ensuring understanding and adherence to significant changes.
- Monitoring and implementing emerging global AI regulations alongside traditional banking frameworks.
What You'll Need
- 5+ years of experience in the financial industry focusing on model risk, including governance, development, or validation.
- Knowledge of models used across the firm's business spectrum.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of articulating deliverables to regulators and stakeholders of various seniorities.
- Impressive analytical and quantitative skills.
- A team-oriented approach with great interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Familiarity with SQL and data visualization tools.
Nice to Have
- Experience in banking or financial services, handling model risk findings with regulators and collaborating with internal audit teams.
- Knowledge of AI/ML model governance, explainability, or advanced analytics in financial services.
- Familiarity with cloud-based model deployment or monitoring solutions.
- Proficiency in Python.
Diversity & Inclusion
Building a global financial super app isn’t enough. Our employees are a priority, which is why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join our multicultural, hard-working team.
