Credit Model Validation Manager (Machine Learning & NPV Models)

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. About Enterprise Risk & Internal Audit The Enterprise Risk & Internal Audit department protects Affirm’s operations and long-term success. We identify, assess, and monitor risk across the business. Our work includes internal audits, regulatory assurance, fraud prevention, and crisis planning. The team maintains strong controls, tracks key risk indicators, and ensures readiness for external reviews. We uphold accountability, transparency, and resilience to support responsible growth. About the Team We're looking for a sharp, driven quantitative professional to join our dynamic Model Risk Management (MRM) team. In this role, you will oversee the underwriting and credit risk validation sector - the most critical pillar of Affirm’s MRM framework. This is a unique position designed for a seasoned technical leader who can build, mentor, and manage a high-performing team while remaining deeply hands-on, personally executing validations of our most complex machine learning models. You'll collaborate across the company to shape a best-in-class risk framework, ensuring our models are robust, reliable, and ready for the future. If you're passionate about the intersection of finance, credit risk, and data science, this role is for you. What You'll Do: Sector Leadership & Team Management: Oversee the underwriting and credit risk validation sector. Lead, mentor, and manage a team of talented quantitative professionals while setting the strategic direction for this critical risk domain. Hands-On Model Validation: Execute rigorous, independent validations of sophisticated machine learning models across underwriting and credit risk management. Technical Review: Evaluate conceptual soundness, data integrity, and performance stability through comprehensive testing, in-depth reviews, and continuous

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. About Enterprise Risk & Internal Audit The Enterprise Risk & Internal Audit department protects Affirm’s operations and long-term success. We identify, assess, and monitor risk across the business. Our work includes internal audits, regulatory assurance, fraud prevention, and crisis planning. The team maintains strong controls, tracks key risk indicators, and ensures readiness for external reviews. We uphold accountability, transparency, and resilience to support responsible growth. About the Team We're looking for a sharp, driven quantitative professional to join our dynamic Model Risk Management (MRM) team. In this role, you will oversee the underwriting and credit risk validation sector - the most critical pillar of Affirm’s MRM framework. This is a unique position designed for a seasoned technical leader who can build, mentor, and manage a high-performing team while remaining deeply hands-on, personally executing validations of our most complex machine learning models. You'll collaborate across the company to shape a best-in-class risk framework, ensuring our models are robust, reliable, and ready for the future. If you're passionate about the intersection of finance, credit risk, and data science, this role is for you. What You'll Do: Sector Leadership & Team Management: Oversee the underwriting and credit risk validation sector. Lead, mentor, and manage a team of talented quantitative professionals while setting the strategic direction for this critical risk domain. Hands-On Model Validation: Execute rigorous, independent validations of sophisticated machine learning models across underwriting and credit risk management. Technical Review: Evaluate conceptual soundness, data integrity, and performance stability through comprehensive testing, in-depth reviews, and continuous

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. We’re looking for an intelligent, driven professional to join our Bank Model Risk Management (MRM) team. This team seeks to establish, maintain and oversee an effective MRM framework to identify, quantify, monitor, mitigate and report on model risk. You will have an outstanding opportunity to work cross-functionally to develop a profound understanding of models that drive critical business decisions, and add value to the Bank by mitigating risks due to ineffective model design or model misuse. What You'll Do Full-Stack Model Validation: Conduct rigorous, independent validations of sophisticated credit/fraud models—including machine learning and traditional statistical models—focusing on conceptual soundness, data integrity, and performance stability. Advanced Quantitative Monitoring: Develop automated, independent monitoring suites in Python to track KRI/KPI drift, population stability (PSI), and feature importance shifts in real-time. Remediation & Technical Advisory: Partner with 1st-line Model Developers to drive the remediation of validation findings, ensuring models and strategies are not only compliant but mathematically robust. Audit & Regulatory Liaison: Partner with Internal Audit, Internal Controls, and Compliance to facilitate the timely resolution of audit and regulatory requests. Affirm Bank: Work for the internal Bank team to support the build out of the Bank Model Risk Management function. Support the model validation requirements for Bank owned models. What We Look For 7+ years of professional experience in a highly technical capacity, such as Credit/Fraud/Financial Risk Modeling, Model Validation, or Quantitative Analytics Deep understanding of the consumer credit lifecycle and/or fraud detection. Technical familiarity with loss forecasting/fraud prediction, a

About the role Chime's Data Science & Machine Learning team builds the models, services, and platforms behind how millions of members manage and grow their financial lives. We're hiring a Staff AI/ML Engineer on our Lending and Cashflow team to lead the modeling behind cash flow underwriting and surface member insight: using members' transaction and deposit data to make fair, accurate credit decisions for people that traditional credit scores often miss. In this role, you'll build and deploy machine learning systems on some of the richest transactional and behavioral data in fintech, turning it into the credit decisions behind products like MyPay, Instant Loans, and SpotMe. This is a highly applied role: you'll own problems end to end, from framing the question through to a model running in production and moving a metric that matters, and you'll set the technical direction for how Chime underwrites with cash flow data. In this role, you can expect to Lead the design, training, and deployment of deep learning and classical ML underwriting models that turn members' transaction and cash flow data into credit decisions, from approval and line assignment to loss forecasting Take models from problem framing through to production — training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration — and stay accountable for how they behave once they're live Design and improve the systems around the model: feature pipelines, batch and real-time inference, monitoring, and retraining Partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Risk to turn ambiguous business problems into ML solutions, and to make sure the solution is the right one Connect model performance to member outcomes and business metrics, and use experimentation to prove impact Set the technical roadmap for Lending ML and raise the bar across the team through design reviews, mentorship, and shared standards for model development, validation, and governance Help identify where AI/ML creates measurable impact for me

Position Overview At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company’s success. As a Quantitative Analytics and Modeling Analyst Senior within PNC's Model Risk Management organization, you will be based in Pittsburgh, PA, Boston, MA or Tysons Corner, VA. We are seeking an experienced model validator to be part of our Model Risk Management team at PNC. The position reports to a validation manager in Commercial Credit and Financial Valuation Models and is part of the Independent Risk Management organization. This role involves performing rigorous independent reviews on some of PNC’s most important models including Commercial & Industrial, Commercial Real Estate and retail commercial loss forecasting models, risk rating models, as well as financial valuation and investment models. This role also participates at and provide individual and aggregate model risk assessment in various model working groups and forums. PNC is an in-office company that fosters a supportive culture

Citibank, N.A. seeks a Project Management Lead for its Irving, Texas location. Duties: Manage end-to-end delivery of wholesale credit risk and climate risk initiatives, overseeing projects lifecycle from requirements intake through execution and implementation. Define and monitor project milestones, dependencies to ensure timely project delivery and resolution of emerging risks or constraints. Partner with model developers in order to streamline, consolidate and redevelop wholesale credit risk models. Support model validation, audit readiness and project success by maintaining comprehensive documentation, remediation trackers, and evidence repositories. Coordinate with technology partners to optimize model integration, leading efforts to embed Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) and International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (IFRS9) models into the library system. A telecommuting/hybrid work schedule may be permitted within a commutable distance from the worksite, in accordance with Citi policies and protocols. Requirements: Requires a Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Finance, Business Analytics, or related field and 4 years of experience as a Project Manager, Financial Analyst, Accountant, or related position involving treasury and balance-sheet risk assessment, wholesale credit risk management and financial audit management. 4 years of experience must include: Risk management processes and frameworks in order to measure financial exposures under stress scenarios in model development; Understanding of control framework and regulatory expectations for model documentation, validation and periodic review; Project management including project structuring, development of timeline, implementation phases planning, resources allocation, identification of dependencies and bottlenecks, and escalation of issues; Data analysis and data quality assurance, including cleanliness of the data, completeness and accuracy, while ad