Job summary: - Financial Institutions routinely use models for a broad range of activities including analyzing business strategies, informing business decisions, identifying and measuring risk, valuing exposures or instruments, hedging derivative positions, conducting stress testing, assessing capital adequacy, managing clients assets, informing investment process, measuring compliance with internal limits, maintaining the formal control apparatus of the bank, meeting financial or regulatory reporting requirements and issuing public disclosures. Model Risk arises from the potential adverse consequences of making decisions based on incorrect or misused model outputs and reports, leading to financial loss, poor business decision making, or reputational damage. - As part of the firm's model risk management function, Model Governance Group (MGG) is charged with developing model risk policy and control procedures, performing model validation activities, providing guidance on a model's appropriate usage in the business context, evaluating ongoing model performance testing, and ensuring that model users are aware of the model strengths and limitations. Model manager roles within MGG provide attractive career paths for model development and model validation quants in a dynamic setting working closely with Front Office Trading Desks, Desk Quants or Model Developers, Risk and Finance professionals, where they act as key stakeholders on day-to-day model-related risk management decisions. Core responsibilities: The successful candidate will be a member of the MGG Group covering Chief Investment Office and Mortgage Servicing Rights (MSR) Risk Management and will focus on the following activities: - Engage in new model validation activities for a subset of models in the coverage area - evaluate conceptual soundness of model specification; reasonableness of assumptions and reliability of inputs; completeness of testing performed to support the correctness of the implementation; robustness of numerical aspects; suitability and comprehensiveness of performance metrics and risk measures associated with use of model. - Perform additional model review activities ranging from proposed enhancements to existing models, extensions to scope of existing models, use of approximate bookings, to providing transaction-specific approvals. - Liaise with Trading Desk, Risk and Finance professionals to provide oversight of and guidance on appropriate usage, controls around model restrictions &amp; limitations, and findings for ongoing performance assessment &amp; testing - Maintain model risk control apparatus of the bank for the coverage area &amp; serve as first point of contact - Keep up with the latest developments in coverage area in terms of products, markets, models, risk management practices and industry standards Essential skills, experience, and qualifications: - Strong quantitative &amp; analytical skills: The role requires a strong quantitative background based on a PhD or Masters Degree (or equivalent) in a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Engineering, Quantitative Finance, etc. - Domain expertise at least one of the following areas: CCAR forecasting models, prepayment and credit models for structured credit and mortgage products, Fixed Income securities and derivatives pricing models, time series analysis - Prior 3-5 years of experience in any of the following areas: Quantitative Model Development, Model Validation, Quantitatively driven Trading or Structuring, and Bank Portfolio Management - Strong communication skills and ability to interface with other functional areas in the bank on model-related issues - Risk and control mindset: ability to ask incisive questions, converge on critical matters, assess materiality and escalate issues

Mumbai

JP Morgan - Associate/Vice President - Model Group Governance 

JP Morgan - Associate/Vice President - Model Group Governance  ,Job Description for JP Morgan - Associate/Vice President - Model Group Governance  in J.P. Morgan in  Mumbai for (4-12) years of experience. Apply Now!

Job Description for JP Morgan - Associate/Vice President - Model Group Governance  in J.P. Morgan in  Mumbai for (4-12) years of experience. Apply Now!