Affirm
Financial Model Risk Management Lead
$164K–$245K
Remote US +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Location
- Remote US
Remote Canada - Experience
- 4–6 years of professional experience in related technical areas such as model development, model validation, quantitative finance, or data analytics.
- Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in a quantitative field.
About the job
Lead independent validation and ongoing monitoring of Affirm’s financial and analytics models, while strengthening model governance and the Model Risk Management framework.
What you'll do
- Lead end-to-end validation engagements for complex, critical models and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Identify model weaknesses and collaborate with model owners to remediate findings and improve governance.
- Partner across teams to maintain the MRM framework and resolve audit, regulatory, and examiner requests.
What they ask for
- 4–6 years of related technical experience, with meaningful exposure to financial and/or analytics model validation.
- Deep knowledge of corporate finance, treasury, ALM, and/or actuarial or statistical forecasting.
- Experience with statistical modeling, time-series forecasting, simulation, and/or machine learning applied to finance and analytics.
- BS, MS, or PhD in a quantitative field such as Quantitative Finance, Financial Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or Data Science.
Nice to have
- Experience in credit underwriting or credit risk management.
- Experience with scripting languages and large-scale datasets; comfort reviewing models in Excel, Python, Databricks, or similar environments.
Pay
$185,000 - $245,000 USD base salary; $164,000 - $224,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, SQL, Excel, Databricks
AI focus
Validate and monitor models that may use machine learning techniques in finance and analytics.
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