CIB: Model Development Manager

at  Absa Bank Limited

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
manage the development and continuous enhancement of Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) regulatory credit capital models (PD, LGD and EAD), by playing a leading role in the entire credit risk model development, implementation, monitoring and governance lifecycle. Act as a senior technical advisor to junior quantitative analysts and Model Development analysts across the wider Model Risk and Development teams.

Job Description

• We will expect you to take ownership of the full end-to-end model development lifecycle (development, implementation and governance) of CIB regulatory credit capital models (PD, LGD and EAD), to meet relevant business as usual and project timelines.
• You will be leading a team of modelling analysts and your role will include mentoring, performance management, recruitment, talent management and succession planning
• You will be accountable for ensuring that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, risk management frameworks and internal policies and standards and understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the process.
• You will also play an active role in providing directional expertise to enhance model building skills across the team, including transferring knowledge and experience to junior team members and peers, and keep up with industry trends to ensure increased capacity to build models.
• Your ability to effectively manage stakeholders across different functions is key.

A successful candidate will be a South African Citizen that hold at least an honours degree in Statistics, Business Mathematics and Informatics (BMI) or Mathematical Statistics or a related field with a minimum of 6 years’ experience in statistical model development or validation in a Business Banking or Investment Banking environment with process and people management experience preferred. Proficiency in Base SAS or SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS data steps, SAS procedures, SAS SQL, SAS Macros in order to develop statistical models required.
Education
Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertise

Please refer the Job description for details