Manager/Senior Manager, Credit Risk Models - Financial Engineering & Modeling

SML Inox; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 95,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Manager/Senior Manager in Credit Risk Models to lead complex engagements within the financial services sector. This role offers the chance to leverage deep technical skills and collaborate with a global network of experts to provide innovative solutions to clients' challenges. With a hybrid work model, competitive salary, and a commitment to personal and professional growth, this position promises to be both rewarding and impactful. If you are passionate about quantitative analysis and eager to make a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

$4,000 per year for mental health support benefits

$1,300 flexible benefit spending account

38+ days off

Flexible work arrangements

Hybrid work structure

Qualifications

• 5-7 years in credit risk model development or validation.
• Graduate degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, or Computer Science.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagements in credit risk modeling and manage client relationships.
• Conduct complex financial analyses and provide professional advice.

Skills

Credit Risk Modeling

Quantitative Analysis

Programming (Excel, SAS, R, Python)

Communication Skills

Team Leadership

Education

Master’s or PhD in Quantitative Field

Tools

Excel

SAS

R

Python

Job description

Manager/Senior Manager, Credit Risk Models - Financial Engineering & Modeling

Date: Jan 17, 2025

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company: Deloitte

Job Type: Permanent
Work Model: Hybrid
Reference code: 127463
Primary Location: Toronto, ON
All Available Locations: Toronto, ON

Our Purpose

At Deloitte, we are driven to inspire and help our people, organization, communities, and country to thrive. Our Purpose is to build a better future by accelerating and expanding access to knowledge. Purpose defines who we are and gives us reason to exist as an organization.

By living our Purpose, we will make an impact that matters.

• Be encouraged to deepen your technical skills…whatever those may be.
• Partner with clients to solve their most complex problems.
• Experience MyFlex and an agile work environment where work is what you do not where you do it.

What will your typical day look like?

In this role you will help financial services industry (FSI) clients face quantitative issues with informed confidence. Using your deep technical skills and leveraging our global network of experts, you’ll provide professional advice to our FSI clients in a wide range of situations. The result? Our clients will be better placed to take control and receive the best solutions to their complex challenges.

Lead large/complex engagements and manage key client relationships in the credit risk modelling space (e.g. AIRB, IFRS 9, CECL, adjudication/behavioral scoring models and CCAR models), across model development, validation, and review functions. You will also be able to learn and work in other quantitative and analytical areas such as forecasting and stress testing, customer behavior modeling, and new innovations such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. You will also carry out various complex financial analyses including independent derivative valuation.

About the team

Deloitte’s Risk, Regulatory & Forensics practice delivers highly specialized advisory solutions for companies facing critical business events where significant value is at stake, in every phase of the economic cycle.

Our work is often high profile, high impact, and highly rewarding. If you’re looking for a challenge and an opportunity to grow your career alongside the best and brightest in the industry, you’ll find it in Risk, Regulatory & Forensics at Deloitte. Broaden your skills. Broaden your reach. Broaden your career. It’s all possible at Deloitte.

Enough about us, let’s talk about you

You are someone with:

• Minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience spent within a credit risk model development or model validation team at a major financial institution, showcasing a consistent record of achievements while collaborating with cross-functional teams;
• Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience in a team leading/people management capacity;
• Solid academic background with graduate degree (Master’s or PhD) in quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or other relevant post graduate degree;
• Solid knowledge of common practices in standard credit risk practices, encompassing methodologies for expected loss such as Probability of Default (PD), Loss Given Default (LGD), Exposure at Default (EAD);
• Solid knowledge of supervisory/regulatory requirements as it pertains to credit risk models, including IFRS 9, AIRB, and CCAR;
• Significant experience and proven ability to program in pertinent languages, such as Excel, SAS, R, and Python;
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities, adept at effectively documenting and conveying analysis findings;
• Exhibited a goal-oriented mindset and a strong motivation to achieve targets and make a positive impact, while consistently embodying the company's core values of trust, teamwork, and accountability;
• Canadian travel required and occasional international travel. Candidates must be able to enter the USA to work on client assignments.

Total Rewards

The salary range for the Manager position is $95,000 - $159,000 and $123,000 - $228,000 for the Senior Manager position, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.

Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth. Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people-first organization. Some representative examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, 38+ days off (including 10 firm-wide closures known as "Deloitte Days"), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.

Our promise to our people: Deloitte is where potential comes to life.

Be yourself, and more.

We are a group of talented people who want to learn, gain experience, and develop skills. Wherever you are in your career, we want you to advance.

You shape how we make impact.

Diverse perspectives and life experiences make us better. Whoever you are and wherever you’re from, we want you to feel like you belong here. We provide flexible working options to support you and how you can contribute.

Be the leader you want to be

Some guide teams, some change culture, some build essential expertise. We offer opportunities and experiences that support your continuing growth as a leader.

Have as many careers as you want.

We are uniquely able to offer you new challenges and roles - and prepare you for them. We bring together people with unique experiences and talents, and we are the place to develop a lasting network of friends, peers, and mentors.

The next step is yours

At Deloitte, we are all about doing business inclusively - that starts with having diverse colleagues of all abilities. Deloitte encourages applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of communities across Canada. This includes, but is not limited to, people with disabilities, candidates from Indigenous communities, and candidates from the Black community in support of living our values, creating a culture of Diversity Equity and Inclusion and our commitment to our AccessAbility Action Plan, Reconciliation Action Plan and the BlackNorth Initiative.

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