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Embark on a transformative journey as an AVP-Model Validation at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences. Model Risk Management (MRM) is a function reporting directly to the Group Chief Risk Officer and responsible for the identification, assessment, monitoring and management of model risk within Barclays. Model risk is the potential for adverse consequences from decisions based on incorrect or misused model outputs. Models are defined broadly in the Group Model Risk Policy to encompass all methods, systems or approaches that apply statistical, economic financial or mathematical theories, techniques and assumptions to process inputs into quantitative outputs. MRM is currently responsible for approving in excess of 1800 models. The function covers both the independent validation of Barclays’ models and model governance and controls.
Job Responsibility:
Provision of technical support for the service management function to resolve more complex issues for a specific client of group of clients
Develop the support model and service offering to improve the service to customers and stakeholders
Execution of preventative maintenance tasks on hardware and software and utilisation of monitoring tools/metrics to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure optimal performance
Maintenance of a knowledge base containing detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference, self-service opportunities and knowledge sharing
Analysis of system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root causes of hardware, software and network issues, and providing a resolution to these issues by fixing or replacing faulty hardware components, reinstalling software, or applying configuration changes
Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management, resiliency, business continuity management, front office specific support and stakeholder management
Identification and remediation or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service impacting risks and issues
Proactively assess support activities implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability and drive efficiency
Actively tune monitoring tools, thresholds, and alerting to ensure issues are known when they occur
Requirements:
Experience as a modeller/validator in the retail or wholesale industry
Experience in Market Risk and Stress Test domains
Experience in Capital/Non-Traded Interest Rate Risk/Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR)/Finance
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience in developing, validating and risk management of models
Coding experience in R/Python
Expert user of Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office tools
Sharp focus on gaps/issues identification and passionate about problem solving
Effective and Efficient stakeholder management
Good communication and influencing skills, ability to produce high quality written communication for technical and non-technical audiences
Nice to have:
Good understanding of banking environment, retail, and wholesale portfolios
Ability to work in a high performing team, and the ability to work and liaise with others in a diverse team
Role requires influencing skills and problem-solving abilities to overcome issues inherently arising during the validation process