Head of Model Risk OversightActive€102K–€138K

The opportunity

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What you'll do

  • Defining, implementing and maintaining the EU-wide Model Risk Management: (MRM) Framework and associated validation standards. This includes developing and implementing the model risk appetite, model risk assessment process, model risk reporting and ongoing model reviews and validation schedules.

  • Serving as the primary driver and coordinator for the Model Risk Oversight: Committee (MROC), ensuring material risk metrics, model validations and escalations are effectively reported to the Executive Risk Committee (ERC) and the Board Risk Committee (BRC).

  • Establishing and maintaining a centralised suite of model validation: standards including those used for performance monitoring.

  • Maintaining MBEU Model Inventory including AI Use Case registries, ensuring: appropriate tiering classification of material and high-risk models in alignment with the EU AI Act.

  • Managing the local embedding of the group-wide model risk governance: frameworks, ensuring appropriate alignment and clear escalation protocols between global frameworks and subsidiary-specific policy standards.

  • Leading the technical 2LOD validation of all material and high-risk models: prior to deployment, evaluating mathematical logic, data lineage, conceptual soundness, stability, performance and potential algorithmic bias.

What they're looking for

  • Providing 2LOD independent oversight and technical validation across key risk domains including:
  • Credit Risk covering credit scoring, automated underwriting decision engines,: customer affordability and IFRS 9 loan loss provisioning models.
  • Fraud & Financial Crime Risk covering digital onboarding risk assessment: scorecards and real-time fraud/transaction monitoring models.
  • Financial Risk covering financial planning models, ICAAP/ILAAP stress: testing, Pillar 2 economic capital models, macroeconomic forecasting, Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book (IRRBB) models.