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Job Description
As a valued colleague on our team, you will prepare instruction manuals, how-to guides, articles, and other supporting documents to communicate complex and technical information more easily. You will assist the team with assessing and identifying potential model risks that may threaten our reputation, safety, security, and/or financial success, as well as participate with the team in communicating and collaborating with key stakeholders across the enterprise and understanding business objectives. This requisition is an addition to our team tied to the Model Remediation & Transformation Program. This position is needed to support our Model Controllers in effectively executing their role.
The Senior Technical Writer - Enterprise Analytics & Modeling will join the Model Governance Solutions (MGS) team. The MGS team has responsibility to drive consistency, compliance, and sustainability in first-line model management activities across the enterprise.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the team to gather information about technical products, policies, or other elements.
- Develop documents that translate technical information into non-technical terminology.
- Collaborate with customers to ensure documentation meets their needs.
- Revise existing documentation as needed.
- Own, update, & maintain enterprise 1st line of defense (LoD) model management procedures, supporting documents, & working groups.
- Drive 1st LoD model management regulatory response and support.
- Perform 1st LoD model management compliance reviews, reporting, & enforcement.
- Provide 1st LoD training & consultation related to model management lifecycle requirements.
- Coordinate among & represent the 1st LoD community in relation to model management requirements and activity.
- Write, edit, and revise model documentation.
- Manage end-to-end documentation lifecycle for assigned models.
- Train and collaborate with business partners on model documentation compliance.
- Build and maintain documentation resources (examples, guides, etc.) for broader 1st LoD client base.
- Work with a growing documentation team to ensure consistent documentation quality and share technical writing best practices.
- Partner with Model Risk Management on documentation requirements to ensure 1st LoD compliance.
- Identify model documentation trends, opportunities, and areas for improvement.
- Help create the infrastructure, reporting, and transparency for model documentation artifacts.
Minimum Experiences
2 years of technical model writing experience.
Skills
- Ability to work respectfully and cooperatively with people from different functional expertise toward common goals.
- Skilled in creating visual concepts, content, and editing with or without software to communicate ideas.
- Effective in presenting information in an engaging and understandable way.
- Relationship management skills, including stakeholder engagement and network building.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, including copywriting and planning.
- Experience gathering accurate information to explain concepts and answer critical questions.
Desired Experiences
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- Skilled in Visio.
- Experience with quantitative disciplines, finance, and/or statistical modeling.
- Experience with Atlassian products (Confluence, Bitbucket, Jira).
- Experience with SharePoint.
- Advanced degree, certification, or substantial experience in economics, statistics, or finance.
- Experience with programming languages (Python, R, C++, etc.).
- Experience developing best practices and training modeling community members.
- Strong execution, prioritization, and planning skills.
- Relationship management skills to partner with team and stakeholders.
- Excellent proofreading and editing skills on complex documents.
- Excellent communication skills to explain complex processes.
- Experience in model risk management, testing, validation, or governance is a plus.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Effective communication with management and stakeholders, tailored to the audience.
- Ability to present and train stakeholder groups and internal teams.
- Ownership of end-to-end projects with clear success metrics.
- Proactive in identifying solutions and driving process improvements.
- Strong relationship-building abilities to influence results.
- Understanding and implementation of 1st LoD model governance requirements.
- Up-to-date knowledge of industry and regulatory standards in model risk management.
- Self-starter with organizational skills and ownership of work.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree required.
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Requisition Compensation
USD 94,000 to USD 122,000