Senior Bank Model Risk & Validation Manager (Remote)

Affirm; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 195,000 - 280,000; Full time

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Job summary

Affirm is seeking an experienced financial risk quant analyst to join the Bank Model Risk Management team. You will independently validate sophisticated credit and fraud models and build automated Python-based monitoring for drift, PSI, and feature importance shifts.

The role emphasizes remediation with model developers, collaboration with audit/compliance, and supporting bank-owned models in a remote-first environment across the United States.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in technical risk modeling, validation, or quantitative analytics.
• Deep understanding of consumer credit lifecycle and/or fraud detection.

Responsibilities

• Full-Stack Model Validation: validate credit/fraud models for concept, data integrity, and performance stability.
• Develop automated monitoring in Python to track KRI/KPI drift, PSI, and feature importance shifts.
• Remediation & technical advisory with model developers to ensure robustness and compliance.
• Audit & regulatory liaison to facilitate timely responses and required documentation.
• Support the Bank Model Risk Management function for bank-owned models.

Skills

Python

SQL

Model validation

Credit risk

Fraud risk

Stakeholder comms

Pandas

Tools

scikit-learn

Statsmodels

NumPy

Job description

Affirm is seeking an experienced financial risk quant analyst to join the Bank Model Risk Management team. You will independently validate sophisticated credit and fraud models and build automated Python-based monitoring for drift, PSI, and feature importance shifts.

The role emphasizes remediation with model developers, collaboration with audit/compliance, and supporting bank-owned models in a remote-first environment across the United States.