Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. The Model Risk Management (MRM) team needs a quantitative professional to dive deep into the models that power critical business decisions, shape a best-in-class risk framework, and ensure models are robust, reliable, and ready for the future.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional experience in a technical role like model development, model validation, or data analytics
- Deep knowledge of ALM, treasury, and corporate finance. Experience with credit risk is a strong plus
- Hands-on ability to script in languages like Python and wrangle large-scale datasets with SQL
Responsibilities
- Conduct rigorous, independent validations of sophisticated models across finance, treasury, credit, and analytics, through in-depth review, testing and ongoing monitoring to ensure their accuracy and integrity
- Identify key model weaknesses and highlight opportunities for improvement, helping teams build stronger, more powerful tools
- Collaborate with teams across the business to drive the remediation of validation findings
- Partner with model owners and developers to implement and enhance our company-wide MRM framework, ensuring it remains effective and innovative
- Work closely with our Accounting, Internal Controls, and Compliance teams to ensure we meet and exceed all audit and regulatory expectations
Other
- A natural problem-solver with a meticulous eye for detail, a deep curiosity for how models work, and excellent critical-thinking skills
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex technical ideas for any audience
- Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range.
- Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.
- Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company!
