Model Validation Analyst

Recruiter:

Network Recruitment

Job Ref:

NFP016091/Chane

Date posted:

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Location:

Stellenbosch, South Africa

SUMMARY:
Are you a decision science professional with a passion for data-driven risk management? This is an opportunity to join a forward-thinking financial services organization as a Model Validation Analyst, where you’ll be directly involved in ensuring the accuracy, reliability, and compliance of advanced credit and risk models.

Our client is a leading player in the financial services industry, committed to innovation and robust risk management practices. They are seeking a Model Validation Analyst to strengthen their analytics and decision science team. This role offers exposure to a wide range of modelling areas - from credit risk and capital to fraud detection and marketing - and the opportunity to work closely with senior stakeholders.

You’ll be responsible for end-to-end model validations, building challenger models, and providing independent assurance that business-critical models are both accurate and compliant. This is your chance to combine technical expertise with meaningful impact in a highly dynamic environment.

POSITION INFO:
Key Responsibilities:

Conduct end-to-end validations of models across credit risk, finance, and fraud domains.
Build and test challenger models to ensure robustness and accuracy of existing models.
Analyze and interpret data for predictive modelling, scorecard development, and monitoring.
Provide technical challenge and assurance to modelling teams, ensuring best practice and compliance with governance standards.
Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to influence decision-making and outcomes.

Job Experience and Skills Required:

Minimum of a Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science, or Data Science. Honors preferred.
3+ years’ proven experience in scorecard building, including credit risk application/behavior models or marketing scorecards.
Data mining and predictive modelling expertise.
Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, with attention to detail.
Knowledge of the full credit lifecycle.
Ability to engage effectively across technical and non-technical teams.

Apply now!

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I also specialize in recruiting in the following:

Actuarial
Product Development
Pricing
Valuations
Credit Risk
Market Risk

If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles / positions.

For more information, contact:
Chanél Lubbe
Specialist Recruitment Consultant in Actuarial & Analytics
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