Skills and Competencies :

- 10+ years of relevant professional experience in a quantitative role (e.g., credit risk, rating models, structured finance).

- Deep quantitative expertise with ownership of business logic design for credit rating models across the model suite.

- Very strong understanding of fixed income and financial mathematics, including understanding of structured finance; ability to apply this to cross-sector model consistency and suite-level analytical decisions.

- Good development skills in C#.

- Experience using C++, VBA or Matlab is a plus.

- Experience in guiding and challenging technical choices, not only implementing them.

- Ability to oversee and challenge implementation of complex quantitative logic while ensuring analytical consistency, especially for novel analytical questions.

- Outstanding management skills and proved ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy and own initiative while ensuring quality and consistency.

- Strong judgment, leadership, and stakeholder management skills in complex analytical environments.

- Experience or interest in using AI tools to improve efficiency and effectiveness of analytical and development workflows.

Education:

- PhD or MSc in Mathematics, Physics, or Statistics or a closely related quantitative discipline.

Responsibilities:

- Lead quantitative model logic design and analytical direction for credit rating models, ensuring consistency and quality.

- Manage and develop resources effectively, execute multiple projects at one time.

- Prioritize and organizing developments, provide timing estimates, monitor execution.

- Own and set direction for quantitative business logic design across credit rating models.

- Present and communicate business logic design with stakeholders, engaging with rating analysts to build understanding and validate draft logic.

- Oversee and review implementation of model logic, ensure consistency and analytical soundness, apply and enforce development standards.

- Act as an escalation point for complex analytical questions and model governance matters.

- Provide leadership, mentoring, and guidance to team members.