Climate Risk Modeling Lead, Senior Vice President (Hybrid)

Citi • Wilmington, DE

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Citi’s Risk Modeling Solutions department is responsible for the development, delivery, and monitoring of all credit risk models across Citi’s consumer lending portfolios globally. These models span two core activities; granting and managing credit to individual customers and delivering loss forecasts for stress testing (ex. CCAR), loan loss reserving (ex. CECL), and business planning. The Climate Risk Modeling Lead, Senior Vice President role of global secured portfolio model development sits within the Global Mortgage Regulatory Model Development team and specifically part of the Global Mortgage Regulatory Climate and Challenger Models team and is responsible for developing champion/benchmark climate risk models for Citi's international and U.S. residential mortgage portfolios (residential real estate or RRE).

Requirements

• In-depth knowledge of industry and academic climate modeling methodology, climate data sources, vendor/open-source climate models
• 3+ years of climate risk stress testing or catastrophe modeling required
• 10+ years’ experience (6+ years' experience if PhD in Meteorology, Climatology, Atmospheric Sciences, or a highly quantitative discipline).
• Deep knowledge of the mortgage business preferred
• Familiarity with the application of statistical modeling concepts in addressing International and US risk modeling needs preferred
• Advanced knowledge of SAS/SQL, STATA, PYTHON, R or C programming.
• 5+ years of SAS experience highly preferred
• Strong communication skills required to translate model design, specification and performance details to technical and non-technical audiences
• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• PhD degree in Climatology or Atmospheric Sciences with strong statistical background highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the RRE climate modeling team to quantify physical risks for Citi's international and U.S. residential mortgage portfolios. Responsibilities include developing, enhancing, and validating vendor and/or in-house climate models including catastrophe models and global scoring models.
• Advise senior leadership on state of art climate modeling methodology, industry data source, public resources, and vendor/public models for regulatory and/or internal climate exercises.
• Collaborate with external vendors and internal Second Line of Defense (2LOD) and Third Line of Defense (3LOD) on the selection and sourcing of hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and on the design and implementation of climate risk assessment features and products
• Support climate risk adaptation of Citi in house credit loss forecasting models for climate risk stress test and climate risk monitoring.
• Lead data analysis, statistical analysis and back-tests, forecast sensitivity analysis and model robustness tests, preparation of model documentation.
• Provide model implementation and validation support on development, validation, and ongoing assessment.
• Ensure timely completion of assigned projects with high quality.
• Work effectively in cross-functional teams, interacting with key stakeholders regularly to update progress, gather feedback and perform required analytics.
• Create impactful presentations to communicate analytical findings to a wide array of audiences that will facilitate understanding of model performance and usage.
• Interact with senior levels of management to facilitate understanding of usage of risk models and inform critical decisions.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Benefits

• In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards.
• Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs.
• Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays.
• For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com.
• Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees