Model Risk Analyst
Apply NowCompany: SentiLink
Location: Chicago, IL 60629
Description:
About us:
SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact confidently with one another.
By building the future of identity verification in the United States and reinventing the currently clunky, ineffective, and expensive process, we believe strongly that the future will be 10x better.
We've had tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Already our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, beginning with financial services. In 2021, we raised a $70M Series B round, led by Craft Ventures to rapidly scale our best in class products. We've earned coverage and awards from TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, PYMNTS, American Banker, LendIt, and have been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 list for the last three years. Last but not least, we've even been a part of history -- we were the first company to go live with theeCBSVand testified before theUnited States House of Representatives.
Role:
As a Model Risk Analyst, you will take a leading role in the development and implementation of industry-leading model risk management practices and become a founding member of the model governance team. You will lead efforts to independently validate models, identify potential risks, and support ongoing risk mitigation and reporting activities. In this role, you will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders across the organization and customers to ensure our models are accurate, reliable, and effectively managed across the organization.
This is a remote, US-based role.
Responsibilities:
SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact confidently with one another.
By building the future of identity verification in the United States and reinventing the currently clunky, ineffective, and expensive process, we believe strongly that the future will be 10x better.
We've had tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Already our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, beginning with financial services. In 2021, we raised a $70M Series B round, led by Craft Ventures to rapidly scale our best in class products. We've earned coverage and awards from TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, PYMNTS, American Banker, LendIt, and have been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 list for the last three years. Last but not least, we've even been a part of history -- we were the first company to go live with theeCBSVand testified before theUnited States House of Representatives.
Role:
As a Model Risk Analyst, you will take a leading role in the development and implementation of industry-leading model risk management practices and become a founding member of the model governance team. You will lead efforts to independently validate models, identify potential risks, and support ongoing risk mitigation and reporting activities. In this role, you will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders across the organization and customers to ensure our models are accurate, reliable, and effectively managed across the organization.
This is a remote, US-based role.
Responsibilities:
- Ensuring our core models are performing as expected and up to standard via periodic audits, fair lending assessments and ongoing monitoring
- Generating routine governance and performance stats for based on requirements
- Supporting the creation of new governance standards for the company
- Functioning as the main point of contact for our partners around governance materials and model stats, both live (zoom, in person) and async (email)
- Supporting deep model governance audits with prominent financial institutions
- Curating and improving our core governance docs (to reduce ad-hoc burden, increase efficiency, improve quality, etc)
- Years of experience: 3
- Technical bachelor's degree (any STEM)
- Python at intermediate level
- Proficient in Excel / Google Sheets
- Data Visualization skills (Excel Plots / BI tools / Python)
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States
- Nice to have:
- Experience in model governance / risk management / backtesting
- Experience with GitHub / AWS ecosystem (e.g. S3, SageMaker)
- $110,000/year - $140,000/year + equity + benefits
- Employer paid group health insurance for you and your dependents
- 401(k) plan with employer match (or equivalent for non US-based roles)
- Flexible paid time off
- Regular company-wide in-person events
- Home office stipend, and more!
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