Model Validation Manager

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together.

Model Risk Oversight is a strategic function within the broader Corporate Risk Management umbrella that utilizes a broad spectrum of models to create innovative products for our clients, and to prudently manage our financial risk using sophisticated quantitative approaches. The Model Risk Oversight team plays a key role in identifying, reviewing, and monitoring all the models at the company.

We are hiring a quantitative analyst to conduct model validations and make additional contributions to the Model Risk Oversight team. The analyst will need strong quantitative aptitude and a good understanding of how financial models are used in business contexts. This is a manager level individual contributor role in which the person will perform model validations following guidelines based on SR 11-7, to include an assessment of model usage, documentation, conceptual soundness, data integrity, the control environment, and the software environment. This manager will have the opportunity to present work through formal model validation reports, as well as through presentations to model owners and senior management. The nature of the team is very collaborative, and this team member will partner with other quantitative analysts at the company, as well as with external consultants. To ensure success, it will be key to evaluate model performance monitoring reports, conduct model revalidation & model annual reviews, and maintain model inventory.
What you have

Required Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline (statistics, mathematics, physics, economics) or Finance
• 2+ years of work experience in credit risk modeling for mortgages, CECL, PD, LGD, discrete choice models, transition rate matrix, survival analysis, competing risk analysis, etc
• Advanced skill with one or more analytical tools, such as SAS, R, or Python.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent people skills.
• Experience with vendor credit risk model
• Experience with ABS credit risk model
• Ph.D. in a quantitative discipline (statistics, mathematics, physics, economics).
• Experience working as a quant in the financial industry.
• CFA and/or FRM and/or CTP certification.
• Knowledge of model governance processes and regulatory requirements for large US banks.

What's in it for you

At Schwab, we're committed to empowering our employees' personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you'll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you - both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance