Technical Model Validation Specialist - Treasury

Who We Are

Cross River is a highly profitable, fast-growing financial technology company powering the future of financial services. Our comprehensive suite of innovative and scalable embedded payments, cards, and lending products deliver financial services for millions of businesses and consumers around the globe. Cross River is backed by leading investors and serves the world’s most essential fintech and technology companies. Together with its partners, Cross River is reshaping global finance and financial inclusion. 

We are on a mission to build the infrastructure that propels access, inclusion, and the democratization of financial services. While our company has tripled in size over the last three years, our strong sense of purpose led Cross River to be named to American Banker’s list of Best Places to Work in Fintech for the last 6 years. The reason for this success is simple – our nimble and collaborative family culture lives in every member of our growing team. Together we are at the forefront of technology and innovation, and we invite passionate, collaborative, and motivated high performers to join our expanding team.

What We're Looking For

Cross River’s Risk Management group provides a structured approach for identifying, assessing, monitoring and reporting the risks faced by the Bank in alignment with the Bank’s strategic objectives. It provides a framework that drives effective, risk-based decision making, and firm-wide governance structures that supports an enterprise-wide approach to risk management, and as Technical Validation Specialist, you will play a key role in facilitating the same.

The candidate must be self-motivated, analytical, results-driven, and be comfortable working with people. If you are a sharp thinker and problem solver, this is a rewarding career opportunity for you. The team cares about building partnerships, and we have fun doing it. If you like challenging problems, are analytical, and a great team player—we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

Accountable for validations, reviews and monitoring of models and critical tools in Treasury and Finance.

• Validate and test models in treasury and finance with  an understanding of the bank balance sheet cash flows at instrument level and asset/liability management in theory and practice
• Review codes, programs and assumptions for models in treasury and finance
• Analyze data mapping from core system to financial models and identify any errors and lack of controls in this area
• Test sensitivities to model assumptions for models and analyze its impact on cash flow output and financial statements.
• Understand cash flow and repricing characteristics and expectations in different interest rate environments (as well as prepayment, decay, credit sub-model effect)
• Create model validation reports (or work with team-members to create reports) in accordance with the bank’s model risk policy and procedures.
• Engage with model owners to communicate model findings.
• Escalate issues to requisite senior management, review action and ongoing monitoring plans and reports, and identify deliverables to mitigate issues.
• Review compensating controls for models with issues to ensure adequate remediation.
• Support  Regulatory and Audit  timely remediation.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS Degree in Finance or Financial Economics
• Knowledge of Interagency guidance of model risk management (SR 11-7)
• 3-6 years' experience in technical model development or validation at a bank or credit union, fintech organization.
• Prior experience in building or validating treasury and finance models including ALM and interest rate modeling, liquidity and capital stress testing, cash forecasting, P&L forecasting.
• Familiar with applications that house these models
• Knowledge of Empyrean or similar Treasury platforms
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to communicate technical information to management and non-technical audience.
• Ability to negotiate, and listen and collaborate with team members with different points of view, focusing on ensuring Safety and Soundness. 
• Results oriented, ability to meet deadlines, and strong attention to details.
• Integrity, ability to work independently, and strong problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional collaboration skills and a desire to work as part of a high-performance team.

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Salary Range: $120,000.00 - $150,000.00