Manager, Model Risk Management (L09)

JOB_POSTING-3-75394-4

Job Description

Role Title : Manager, Model Risk Management (L09)

Company Overview

Synchrony (NYSE : SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry's most complete digitally enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoors, pet and more.

• We have recently been ranked #2 among India's Best Companies to Work for by Great Place to Work. We were among the Top 50 India's Best Workplaces in Building a Culture of Innovation by All by GPTW and Top 25 among Best Workplaces in BFSI by GPTW. We have also been recognized by AmbitionBox Employee Choice Awards among the Top 20 Mid-Sized Companies, ranked #3 among Top Rated Companies for Women, and Top-Rated Financial Services Companies.
• We offer Flexibility and Choice for all employees and provide best-in-class employee benefits and programs that cater to work-life integration and overall well-being.
• We provide career advancement and upskilling opportunities, focusing on Advancing Diverse Talent to take up leadership roles.

Organizational Overview

Synchrony's Risk Team is a dynamic and innovative team dedicated to provide oversight as 2nd Line of Defense. As a member of this Team, you'll play a pivotal role for high quality model validation and to ensure modeling techniques and results are consistent with the respective strategic uses, models performing as intended, and complying with related MRM policies, standards, procedures as well as regulations. This role requires expertise in supporting model validation initiatives related to quantitative analytic modeling with the Synchrony Model Governance and Validation team. If you are passionate about Model validation and Modelling techniques then Synchrony's Risk team is the place to be

Role Summary / Purpose

The Manager, Model Validation is responsible for model validation focusing on Loss / reserve / recovery forecast , and other models and ensure they are meeting the related Model Risk Management policies, standards, procedures as well as regulations (SR 11-7).

This role requires expertise in supporting model validation initiatives related to quantitative analytic modeling with the Synchrony Model Governance and Validation team. This is an individual contributor role.

Key Responsibilities

Required Skills / Knowledge

Desired Skills / Knowledge

Eligibility Criteria

Bachelor's / Master's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Statistics, Mathematics, or Data Science and 2+ years' experience in model development or model validation experience in the retail section of a U.S. financial services or banking; in lieu of a Master's degree, 4+ years' experience in model development / model validation experience in the retail section of financial services or banking.

Work Timings

This role qualifies for Enhanced Flexibility and Choice offered in Synchrony India and will require the incumbent to be available between 06 : 00 AM Eastern Time – 11 : 30 AM Eastern Time (timings are anchored to US Eastern hours and will adjust twice a year locally). This window is for meetings with India and US teams. The remaining hours will be flexible for the employee to choose. Exceptions may apply periodically due to business needs. Please discuss this with the hiring manager for more details.

For Internal Applicants

Grade / Level : 09

Job Family Group

Credit

Skills Required

Sas, model development , Spark, Sql, Python