Financial Model Risk Management Lead

Affirm is hiring a Financial Model Risk Management Lead to join the Enterprise Risk & Internal Audit department, working remotely from Canada. This role serves as validator and second line of defense for the company's financial and analytics models, overseeing model risk identification, quantification, monitoring, and mitigation across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Conduct independent validation and ongoing monitoring of financial and analytics quantitative models, including asset-liability management (ALM), allowance and loss forecasting, loan transition models, corporate financial planning models, take-up and engagement models, and decision-support analytics
• Lead end-to-end validation engagements for high-complexity, high-criticality models
• Identify model weaknesses, limitations, and improvement opportunities; communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
• Collaborate with model owners and stakeholders across Finance, Quantitative Research, and Growth Analytics to remediate validation findings and strengthen model governance
• Implement and maintain the company's Model Risk Management framework across business functions
• Partner with Internal Audit, Internal Controls, Accounting, and Compliance to address audit, regulatory, and examiner requests

Requirements

• 4–6 years of professional experience in model development, model validation, quantitative finance, or data analytics with meaningful exposure to financial and/or analytics model validation
• Deep knowledge of corporate finance, treasury, ALM, and/or actuarial and statistical forecasting
• Credit underwriting or credit risk management experience (preferred)