Quantitative Consulting Lead - Model Risk & ML Solutions

Forvis Mazars, LLP; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Forvis Mazars, LLP seeks a dynamic Quantitative Manager to join the Quantitative & AI Solutions team. This role combines hands-on modeling with leadership to run model lifecycles in highly regulated environments and to engage with senior stakeholders across Risk, Finance, Compliance, and Technology.

You will lead end-to-end engagements in model development, validation, governance, and operations for major financial institutions, advancing ModelOps/MLOps, governance artifacts, and executive

Qualifications

• 8+ years in quantitative modeling, development, validation, or risk management within financial services.
• Hands-on model development and independent validation experience with defensible reporting.
• Thorough working knowledge of SR 11‑7 requirements for model development, validation, governance, controls.
• Experience validating and governing models across domains: ML, credit risk, market risk, liquidity/treasury.
• Strong project management and stakeholder management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end quantitative engagements across model development, validation, governance, and model operations.
• Serve as trusted advisor to Model Risk Management leadership and senior management on SR 11‑7 frameworks.
• Drive hands-on model development for priority use cases, including framing, methodology, data strategy, features, estimation, and production implementation.
• Develop, validate and govern models across multiple domains (credit risk, market risk, liquidity/treasury) and ML/GenAI.
• Build and govern model governance artifacts: inventories, documentation, validation policies, approval workflows, issue management.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Client-facing leadership

Model risk & governance

Model development & validation

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative discipline

Advanced degree (Masters/PhD) in a quantitative field

Job description

Forvis Mazars, LLP seeks a dynamic Quantitative Manager to join the Quantitative & AI Solutions team. This role combines hands-on modeling with leadership to run model lifecycles in highly regulated environments and to engage with senior stakeholders across Risk, Finance, Compliance, and Technology.

You will lead end-to-end engagements in model development, validation, governance, and operations for major financial institutions, advancing ModelOps/MLOps, governance artifacts, and executive