Climate Risk Model Development – Analyst II

Citi’s Risk Modeling Solutions department is responsible for the development, delivery, and monitoring of all credit risk models across Citi’s consumer lending portfolios globally. These models span two core activities; granting and managing credit to individual customers and delivering loss forecasts for stress testing (ex. CCAR, CRST), loan loss reserving (ex. CECL), and business planning. The Model/Anlys/Valid Analyst II - C10 position sits within the Global Mortgage Regulatory Model Development team and specifically part of the Global Mortgage Regulatory Climate and Challenger Models team and is responsible for developing champion/benchmark risk models for Citi's international and U.S. secured portfolios for regulatory and internal climate risk stress testing exercises.
 

Responsibilities:

Position responsibilities include but not limited to the following activities:

• Participate in building champion/benchmark models for climate risk stress testing and other regulatory/internal purposes for Citi's international and U.S. secured portfolios.
• Under manager's guidance, perform data cleansing and analysis, identify static and dynamic portfolio drivers and macroeconomic drivers for portfolio risk performances, build PD/EAD/LGD models and conducting statistical analysis and backtests, perform forecast sensitivity analysis and model robustness tests, and provide model implementation and validation support.
• Create Model Development Document for validation and supporting Annual Model Reviews and Ongoing Performance Assessment of implemented models.
• Participate in model revalidation, model change and related documentation and validation support efforts.
• Ensure timely completion of assigned projects with high quality.
• Work closely with cross functional teams, including country/region’s business stakeholders, model validation and governance teams, and model implementation team.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in performing quantitative analysis, statistical modeling, loss forecasting, loan loss reserve modeling, or econometric modeling and in-depth knowledge on the use of statistical models to solve business problems (years of experience in Master or PhD programs of Statistics, Economics, Finance, Biomedical Engineering or other highly quantitative discipline counts).
• Past experience of climate risk stress testing or catastrophe modeling preferred
• Experience of end-to-end credit risk modeling highly preferred
• Experience of CCAR and CECL preferred
• Strong programming (SAS, SQL, Python, R, etc.) and quantitative analytics (regression, time series, decision tree, linear/nonlinear optimization etc.) skills preferred
• Strong communication skills required to translate model design, specification and performance details to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skillset:

• Quantitative Analysis
• Statistical Modeling
• Loss forecasting/Loan Loss Reserve Modeling/Econometric Modeling
• Climate Risk Stress Testing or Catastrophe Modeling
• Credit Risk Modeling
• CCAR/CECL Regulations
• SAS, SQL, Python, R

Education:

• Master’s/University degree or equivalent experience
• PhD degree in Statistics, Economics, Finance, Biomedical Engineering or other quantitative discipline preferred

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Job Family Group: Risk Management

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Job Family:Model Development and Analytics

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Time Type:Full time

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Most Relevant Skills Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Constructive Debate, Data Analysis, Escalation Management, Policy and Procedure, Policy and Regulation, Risk Controls and Monitors, Risk Identification and Assessment, Statistics.

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Other Relevant Skills Credible Challenge, Laws and Regulations, Management Reporting, Referral and Escalation, Risk Remediation.

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