Credit Risk Manager (Contract/Temp)

Location: Sydney preferred | Open to Melbourne & Adelaide
Contract Role | Hybrid Model (Minimum 50% in-office)

About the Role
A leading financial institution is seeking a Credit Risk Manager for a contract opportunity focused on credit model oversight and validation. This is a key role in ensuring that credit risk models used for decision-making, capital adequacy, and provisioning are compliant, robust, and fit for purpose.

You will join a dedicated risk function responsible for reviewing and validating models across retail and non-retail portfolios, including IRB, scorecards, provisioning, and stress testing frameworks. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise, critical thinking, and a collaborative mindset.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct independent validations of credit risk models, including PD, EAD, LGD, scorecards, and provisioning models.
• Challenge model assumptions, methodology, development, and implementation with an analytical and regulatory-focused approach.
• Deliver concise and well-documented validation reports for internal and regulatory stakeholders.
• Collaborate with model developers, risk teams, and compliance stakeholders to ensure model integrity and governance alignment.
• Support stress testing and model performance analysis, contributing to risk mitigation and capital optimisation strategies.

What You'll Bring

• Experience in a similar role within credit risk modelling or model validation.
• Proven background working across IRB, provisioning, scorecards, and stress testing models.
• Tertiary qualifications in mathematics, statistics, actuarial science, data science, or a similar quantitative field.
• Advanced technical skills in SAS, R, Python, SQL, and Excel for data analysis, modelling, and reporting.
• Experience with AI/ML modelling approaches or regulatory stress testing frameworks is highly desirable.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex modelling insights to non-technical stakeholders.

Working Arrangement

• Sydney-based preferred, but open to candidates in Melbourne or Adelaide.
• Hybrid working model: minimum 50% of days in-office to support collaboration and business integration.

Why Apply?

• Join a high-impact team within a forward-thinking financial institution.
• Play a critical role in strengthening model governance and credit risk oversight.
• Work on diverse modelling frameworks spanning retail, wholesale, and regulatory domains.
• Gain exposure to enterprise-wide stakeholders and contribute to strategic risk initiatives.

Apply Now
If you're a technically skilled credit risk professional looking for a new contract role with immediate impact, we encourage you to apply today.

This role welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds and supports flexibility and inclusion in the workplace. Adjustments can be made to accommodate individual needs during the recruitment process.

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