Job Description
This financial services company is looking for a Market Risk Modeler to join its Market Risk Model Development & Monitoring team. The role focuses on building, training, tuning, and monitoring market risk models that support investment and loan portfolios, with heavy emphasis on fixed income cash flows. On a daily basis, the modeler will run regression and statistical models, monitor model performance, and prepare materials for committee submission. The role partners closely with Pricing, Security Valuation, and Hedging teams to ensure models align with real financial KPIs and downstream use cases. Over time, the modeler may act as a model owner and present findings directly to department leadership.
An excellent candidate brings strong quantitative and fixed income fundamentals, hands-on SQL/Python skills, and the ability to clearly explain how models impact broader financial and risk decisions. Certifications like the CFA and experience in mortgage or market risk environments are strong differentiators.
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Required Skills & Experience
0-3 years of experience (open to strong early-career candidates; new grads considered with strong internships)
Market risk or fixed income knowledge, including:
Duration, convexity, cash flow modeling
Fixed income instruments and portfolio risk concepts
Quantitative modeling experience
Regression or statistical models
Preventative / pre‑vendor / pre‑risk models (pre‑PIN market risk models)
Hands on technical experience with:
SQL (data extraction, joins, working in a data lake)
Python
Excel (data as currency mindset; strong table joins and analysis)
Tableau (or similar visualization tools)
Financial background with the ability to explain how models support other teams and financial KPIs
Prior model ownership experience, including presenting models to committees or senior leadership
Education: Finance, Financial Engineering, Economics, Mathematics, or Statistics
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
Certifications: CFA (strongly preferred), FRM, or CPA
Experience from:
Fannie Mae, Wintrust, Northern Trust
BMO, Capital One, Discover (Risk departments)
Mortgage risk or fixed income–heavy environments
Exposure to model governance, monitoring, and validation
Experience modernizing data warehouses or working in large-scale data lakes
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.