[Remote] Sr. Manager, Fair Lending Analytics & Validation (R13998)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oportun is a mission-driven financial services company focused on empowering its members to achieve their financial goals. The Senior Manager will be responsible for leading fair lending analytics and testing, while also supporting broader model validation activities within the Model Risk Management function.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute fair lending analytics and testing across credit decisioning, underwriting, marketing and fraud prevention strategies
• Perform statistical analyses to assess disparate impact, bias, and fairness in models and business processes
• Evaluate model inputs, features, and outputs for potential fair lending risks
• Partner closely with the Head of Model Risk and Director of Model Validation to ensure alignment in methodologies, interpretation, and governance
• Translate complex analytical results into clear, actionable insights for stakeholders, including Risk, Legal, Compliance, and senior management
• Conduct independent model validation, annual model review, ongoing monitoring report review, required action item review/closure on the cutting-edge machine learning models
• Deliver high-quality model validation reports, highlighting risks and limitations of the model in a concise manner
• Work closely with business owners/model users and developers to understand the business context for model use and facilitate the model approval process
• Stay up to date with regulatory expectations of model development, use, and validation activities
• Support Oportun’s the model risk management framework, including annual validation plans, model inventory, model risk ranking, and model risk governance
• Develop and maintain effective partnerships with key model stakeholders
• Support the coordination of model risk governance practices with the model users

Skills

• Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, or related quantitative field
• 5+ years of experience in fair lending analytics, model development, or model validation within financial services
• 5+ years of practical quantitative programming experience with Python, SQL, Spark and/or Scala
• 5+ years of experience leveraging machine learning methodologies, such as GBM, XGBoost, and NLP etc
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and written skills
• Good team player and willing to help and share
• Fair lending analytics experience
• AI/ML model validation experience

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