Credit Model Validation Manager (Machine Learning & NPV Models)

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong><em>🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.</em></strong></p> <p>We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.</p> <p>After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as <a href="https://monzo.com/current-account/personal">personal</a> and <a href="https://monzo.com/business-banking">business</a> bank accounts, we offer <a href="https://monzo.com/current-account/joint-account">joint accounts</a>, <a href="https://monzo.com/current-account/16-17">accounts for 16-17 year olds</a>, a <a href="https://monzo.com/current-account/under-16s">free kids account</a> and <a href="https://monzo.com/flex">credit cards</a> in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also <a href="https://monzo.com/savings">save</a>, <a href="https://monzo.com/investments">invest </a>and <a href="https://monzo.com/pensions">combine their pensions</a> with us. </p> <p>With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!</p> <p>We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️</p> <hr> <p> </p></div><p>📍London or Remote (UK)  | 💰 £79,000 - £93,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance +<a href="https://monzo.com/careers/"> Benefits</a></p> <p><strong>🌟 About the team:</strong></p> <p>Our Borrowing (lending) business is growing rapidly across both existing products and with the planned launch of new initiatives. As our lending portfolio grows, our second line of defence Credit Model Validation team is growing with it - and we’re looking for a Credit Model Validation Manager to join us!</p> <p>Our Credit Model Validation team is crucial in providing independent oversight and challenge to our model development teams in the first line of defence to help Monzo grow safely and ensure that the models we use deliver good outcomes for our customers. We’re looking for someone (maybe you?!) to join our validation squad and provide expert independent validation and oversight across our suite of credit models, covering critical business disciplines such as credit strategy and impairment.</p> <p>You’ll have a particular focus on models used for customer-level decisioning and defining our credit strategies - such as underwriting scorecards, origination PD models and Net Present Value (NPV) / unit economics models - across all our lending products.</p> <p>Strong data and analytical skills are a must, as is deep expertise in credit risk modelling. You’ll have hands-on experience in either model validation or model development within a financial services environment, including practical experience using Python to develop, validate or analyse machine learning and statistical models. . In-depth knowledge of credit decisi