Senior Model Risk & Validation Auditor

TALENT SHIFT; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Shift is seeking a senior-level professional to independently audit and validate model risk management activities across development, implementation, validation, monitoring, and governance. You will review CECL, market, and liquidity risk models, evaluate controls, and challenge methodologies and documentation to ensure regulatory alignment.

Applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance and have 7+ years of model validation audit experience. U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in accounting, finance, or related fields.
• 7+ years of relevant model validation audit experience.
• Must reside in the continental U.S.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship not available.

Responsibilities

• Perform independent audit and review of model validation and model risk management activities.
• Assess design and effectiveness of controls surrounding model development, implementation, validation, monitoring, and governance.
• Review CECL models, including methodologies supporting credit loss estimates, key assumptions, segmentation, data inputs, and model performance.
• Evaluate market risk models, including methodologies used to measure and monitor trading and market-related exposures.
• Review liquidity risk and treasury models, including liquidity forecasting, stress testing, funding, and balance-sheet risk methodologies.
• Independently assess management’s remediation and closure of regulatory and Internal Audit findings related to model risk.
• Challenge model assumptions, methodologies, limitations, validation conclusions, and supporting documentation.
• Evaluate compliance with the organization’s model risk management framework and applicable regulatory expectations, including Federal Reserve/OCC SR 11-7 model risk management guidance.

Skills

Model validation audit

Regulatory compliance

Controls assessment

Risk governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance

Job description

Talent Shift is seeking a senior-level professional to independently audit and validate model risk management activities across development, implementation, validation, monitoring, and governance. You will review CECL, market, and liquidity risk models, evaluate controls, and challenge methodologies and documentation to ensure regulatory alignment.

Applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance and have 7+ years of model validation audit experience. U.S.