Senior Manager - Independent Model Validation

Guaranteed Tenants Ltd; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK financial services provider is seeking a Senior Manager for Independent Model Validation in Birmingham. This full-time role involves leading the review and challenge of models, ensuring regulatory alignment, and producing reports. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in model validation and strong analytical skills. The position offers a competitive salary, hybrid working options, and robust professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Market aligned benefits package

Pension plan

Annual bonus

Support for training and qualifications

Qualifications

• Highly numerate with strong analytical skills.
• Experience in model development or validation within financial services.
• Good knowledge of relevant regulations and guidance.

Responsibilities

• Lead independent review and challenge of models.
• Ensure regulatory alignment.
• Assess data quality and performance.
• Produce clear written reports.

Skills

Analytical skills

Written communication

Verbal communication

Model development or validation experience

Practical coding skills

Job description

Senior Manager – Independent Model Validation

Company: Guaranteed Tenants Ltd

Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Overview

Our client is a UK based financial services provider with a strong focus on responsible growth and long term customer relationships. They offer specialist products to retail and business customers and are investing heavily in data, modelling, and risk capabilities. This role sits within a central model risk function, providing independent challenge to models used across the business.

Responsibilities

• Lead independent review and challenge of models, including methodology and theoretical soundness
• Ensure regulatory alignment
• Assess data quality, monitoring, and performance
• Oversee implementation, documentation, and model use
• Shape and maintain the model validation framework, policies, and standards
• Work closely with model developers, owners, and users on model changes, performance issues, and remediation
• Produce clear written reports and present findings at internal committees and forums
• Support and coach more junior team members, helping to build a strong model risk culture

Qualifications

• Highly numerate, with strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills
• Experience in model development or validation within financial services, for example credit risk, capital, provisioning, or stress testing
• Good knowledge of relevant regulations and guidance, for example IRB, IFRS 9, model risk management, and emerging expectations around AI and ML models
• Practical coding skills for model development, testing, and implementation
• Able to work independently while contributing to a collaborative team environment
• Must have the right to work in the UK

Working Pattern and Benefits

Full time role, with a hybrid working pattern that blends office and home working. Competitive salary with a market aligned benefits package, including pension, annual bonus, and a range of flexible benefits to support wellbeing and work life balance. Strong emphasis on professional development, with support for training, qualifications, and internal mobility.

Employment Details

• Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type: Full‑time
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