Interim Credit Risk Specialist

Currently we are looking for an Interim Credit Risk Specialist for an international service organisation in Amsterdam. Are you available in a short notice and do you have strong knowlegde in credit risk management? Please continue reading!

Responsibilities as Interim Credit Risk Specialist:

• Create and write documents for Credit Risk policies, governance around the credit risk policy and use cases of credit risk models;
• Support in developing the risk modeling framework and methodology (IFRS9);
• Align with stakeholders from across the organization to compile the requirements for the risk models and output;
• Coordinate and guide the development ML models that support the risk capability;
• Conduct Workshops and collaborate with O2C & commercial teams to identify their use cases and requirement related to credit risk models;
• Expand our data from external sources to optimize the models;
• Facilitate sessions within O2C to define and finalize Credit Risk Governance;
• Analyze model outputs to extract insights for business and risk decision making;
• Policy and governance documents to cover technical details of the risk models, explanation about usage for particular use case, relevant stakeholders;
• Is flexible in adopting and proposing new approaches and expanding technical competencies when a more efficient way presents itself;
• Be able to apply a solid understanding of the financial services landscape, the risks and regulatory requirements involved in this landscape;
• Collaborates and is open to giving and receiving feedback with peers and direct stakeholders (e.g. commercial-, credit management-, credit collection department);
• Update project sponsors every week on progress.

Requirements as Interim Credit Risk Specialist:

• 5+ years of a relevant experience;
• Experience in operationalizing Credit risk models or to define activities associated with the operation of a Credit Risk department;
• Experience with writing credit risk policy based on best use of the credit risk models in banking, payments or e-commerce sector;
• Experience with writing policy, governance and technical documents;
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders from different backgrounds like commercial, IT and Operations;
• Understanding of Credit risk models and relevant regulations;
• Machine learning modeling / data science experience (pre);
• Internal control experience (pre);
• Strong communication skills in English, Dutch is a pre.

Formalities applicable on the assignment as Interim Credit Risk Specialist:

• Interim assignment: on freelance (ZZP) base;
• Start: As soon as possible, 1st of September latest;
• Time commitment: 32+ hours per week;
• Duration: Initially 3 months (extension of the contract possible).

Does this assignment sound interesting to you? Please don't hesitate to respond!