Western Cape: Model Validation Analyst (Decision Science) posted by Network Finance

This is a fantastic opportunity to apply your technical expertise while gaining exposure across credit risk, finance, capital modelling, and fraud detection. You’ll thrive in this role if you enjoy combining analytics with problem-solving, collaborating across teams, and building challenger models that truly influence decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct independent validations of models across multiple domains.
• Develop and test challenger models to benchmark and enhance existing models.
• Analyse, monitor, and challenge scorecards, ensuring they are accurate, reliable, and compliant.
• Collaborate with modelling and business teams to provide technical oversight and effective challenge.
• Support sound financial decision-making, risk management, and regulatory compliance.

Job Experience and Skills Required:

• Education: Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science, or Data Science.
• Experience:
  • 3–6 years’ experience in scorecard building, development, validation, and monitoring (credit risk or marketing models).
  • Experience with data mining and predictive modelling.
• Skills:
  • Solid understanding of the credit lifecycle.
  • A collaborative approach and strong communication skills for working with both technical and business teams.

Apply now!
 
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• Actuarial: Life, Short-Term, Health, Pensions, and Quantitative
• Data & Analytics: Data Scientists, Data Analysts (Python, R, SQL, Machine Learning)
• Risk: Credit Risk, Market Risk, Model Risk, and Operational Risk Analysts
• Pricing: Specialists in Insurance and Financial Products
• AI & Machine Learning: ML Ops, NLP, Predictive Modelling Data Scientists
• Quantitative: Experts across Banking, Insurance, and FinTech

If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles / positions.

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Zahrah Gani
Specialist Recruitment Consultant
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