(Senior) Quantitative Risk Analyst, Credit Risk Model Analytics

Nordea; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Job summary

Nordea is seeking a (Senior) Quantitative Risk Analyst to join the Credit Risk Model Analytics team. The role focuses on IRB modelling data deliveries, data quality, and robust model development within Nordea's Risk Models organisation.

You will work across IT and business stakeholders to ensure accurate data-driven insights for regulatory and business reporting. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of data analysis experience, strong SQL and Python skills, and a Master’s-level quantitative

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with data analysis in structured database environments, working with large and complex datasets.
• Knowledge of IRB-related processes and regulatory requirements is a plus.
• Strong practical experience with SQL and Python in a professional context over multiple years.

Responsibilities

• Driving complex data deliveries on IRB modelling datasets.
• Data reconciliation across multiple sources.
• Root‑cause analysis and remediation of data quality issues.
• Integration of new data sources.
• Clarify business requirements for accurate implementation.
• Provide updates to stakeholders as a subject matter expert.
• Prepare analysis, reports, and documentation for senior management and regulatory reporting.
• Act as a bridge between business and IT when required.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data analysis

IRB modelling

Stakeholder management

Education

Master's degree in finance, economics, engineering, physics, mathematics, or related quantitative field

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

We are looking for a (Senior) Quantitative Risk Analyst to join Credit Risk Model Analytics team, recognised for its professionalism, strong expertise, and high delivery standards. We have an ambitious development roadmap for risk models, and together with our colleagues across Nordea, we are shaping the future of banking. At Nordea, we use internal models to calculate regulatory capital. These models are developed and maintained within the Risk Models organisation and rely on a comprehensive data asset that aggregates information from across Nordea’s data landscape. Data analytics is at the core of statistical modelling, enabling deep understanding of the data used for regulatory and business‑critical purposes.

About Our Team

Meet the Credit Risk Model Analytics team, a part of Risk Models organisation. Our role is to add value to Nordea and our customers by strengthening data quality, enhancing transparency and understanding of our data, and enabling modelling teams to build robust models. Our work supports financial calculations and helps bank advisors make sound credit decisions.

Our team plays a key role in driving complex data deliveries related to IRB modelling datasets. We also coordinate data‑related activities and collaborate closely with other areas within Risk Models as well as with IT and business stakeholders.

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

What You’ll Be Doing

Main responsibilities in this role:

• Driving complex data deliveries on IRB modelling datasets, including:
• Data reconciliation across multiple sources.
• Root‑cause analysis and remediation of data quality issues.
• Integration of new data sources.
• Refining and clarifying business requirements to ensure accurate and efficient implementation.
• Providing clear and structured status updates to relevant stakeholders as a subject matter expert.
• Preparing analysis, reports, and documentation for senior management and external or regulatory reporting.
• Acting, when required, as a bridge between business and IT to ensure a shared understanding and effective collaboration.

Who You Are

This is the right role for you if bring:

• Proven ability to operate effectively in complex, fast‑paced environments, adapting priorities while maintaining delivery focus.
• Strong structuring and coordination capabilities, with experience managing multiple parallel workstreams and end‑to‑end deliveries.
• High level of independence and accountability, combined with the ability to work effectively across teams and senior stakeholder groups.
• Advanced analytical skills with the capability to assess complex data, models, and sprocesses, and translate findings into clear insights and recommendations.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with confidence to engage, challenge, and influence stakeholders, and to translate business needs into clear requirements for IT and other technical teams.
• A proactive and solution‑oriented mindset, with a genuine drive for continuous improvement, knowledge development, and contributing to the long‑term capability of the team.

Your background and skills include

• Demonstrated experience in data analysis of IRB modeling datasets, acquired through hands‑on work in the banking sector or consulting engagements
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience with data analysis in structured database environments, working with large and complex datasets
• Knowledge of IRB-related processes and relevant regulatory requirements would be considered an advantage.
• Strong practical experience with SQL and Python, or similar analytical and programming languages, applied in a professional context over multiple years
• Model implementation experience in credit risk applications would be considered an advantage.
• A Master’s degree in finance, economics, engineering, physics, mathematics, or a closely related quantitative field, or equivalent senior‑level professional experience demonstrating comparable expertise.

What We Offer

People come here when they want to get somewhere. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.

Next steps

For more information, you’re welcome to contact Ismet Tuna Gurbuz at [e-mail].

Only for candidates in Finland

A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.

Only for candidates in Sweden

For union information, please contact Finansförbundet at [e-mail] or SACO at [e-mail].