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This role will provide independent review and effective challenge throughout the model lifecycle while helping Mercury apply governance proportionate to the actual risk of each model.\nThis is a hands-on role for someone who can move comfortably between technical analysis, regulatory expectations, and business context. You will conduct model validations, challenge assumptions and limitations, improve our model inventory and monitoring practices, and work closely with teams across Risk Ops, Data, Engineering, Product, Finance, Compliance, and Internal Audit. \nShowing up as a true collaborator, advisor and partner to the business will be key as we continue to build out this function and work towards our collective goals at Mercury. You should be comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where the objective is not governance for its own sake, but helping Mercury use models safely, responsibly, and effectively.\nWhat you’ll do:\nPerform independent validations and reviews of internally developed and third-party models across areas such as credit, fraud, BSA/AML, CECL, finance, liquidity, pricing, and operational risk.\nEvaluate each model’s methodology, assumptions, data quality and lineage, implementation, and performance through reviews and testings such as outcomes analysis, benchmarking, back-testing, and sensitivity testing scaled to its risk and materiality.\nProvide credible and constructive challenges to model developers, owners, and users while maintaining effective working relationships with 1LOD.\nAssess model risk and materiality based on a model’s inherent risk, purpose, exposure, use, and potential impact.\nHelp maintain a complete and accurate model inventory, including model ownership, risk rating, dependencies, limitations, validation status, monitoring requirements, and open issues.\nReview ongoing monitoring plans and results, including performance thresholds, overrides, data drift, model changes, and conditions that could make a model no longer fit for purpose.\nEvaluate vendor models and other third-party analytical products, including available documentation, transparency, performance, limitations, customization, and Mercury’s ability to monitor and control their use.\nDocument validation conclusions clearly, identify issues, recommend proportionate remediation, and track findings through resolution.\nSupport controlled model use when validation cannot be completed before implementation by helping establish appropriate limitations, compensating controls, monitoring, and approvals.\nDevelop clear reporting on model risk, validation coverage, performance concerns, concentrations, dependencies, exceptions, and overdue remediation for management and governance committees.\nHelp improve Mercury’s Model Risk Management Policy, standards, procedures, and templates.\nUse automation and analytical tools to make model inventory management, testing, monitoring, and reporting more efficient.\nPartner with Mercury’s Data and AI Governance teams to establish clear boundaries and handoffs between traditional model risk management and the governance of generative AI, agentic AI, and other analytical systems outside the formal model definition.\nSupport regulatory examinations, Internal Audit reviews, and other assurance activities involving model risk.\nWhat we’re looking for:\n5+ years of relevant experience in model validation, model development, quantitative risk analytics, or a related discipline within banking, fintech, financial services, or consulting.\nBachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, Financial Engineering or a related field. Master’s degree or PhD is preferred. \nStrong knowledge of model risk management principles and current regulatory expectations, including the revised interagency guidance reflected in SR 26-2.\nIntensive experience validating or developing models in one or more areas such as BSA/AML, fraud, financial forecasting, CECL, capital, liquidity, and credit underwriting, using one or more methodologies such as machine learning (e.g., XGBoost, random forests), scorecards, complex vendor models (e.g., Alloy, Firco), and complex spreadsheet-based models.\nProficiency with SQL and Python (from a data analytics lens); comfortable building understanding of models independently of their developers through collecting evidence and data analytics.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills; you can explain model risk to a data scientist and to a regulator, or translate your findings and recommendations to guidance for the 1LOD product/business teams, and use different language for each.\nExceptional attention to detail across documentation, code base, testing artifacts and quantitative analysis provided by 1LOD.\nSound judgment and a practical, risk-based mindset: you can distinguish significant model risk from lower-risk matters and have the confidence to challenge model owners constructively, including senior stakeholders.\nHigh ownership, intellectual curiosity, and comfort building processes in a fast evolving environment, where priorities evolve quickly, new ad hoc requests emerge regularly, and role boundaries are intentionally broad. You can operate effectively without tightly-defined scope, find the highest-leverage work, and get it done.\nPreferred qualifications:\nExperience helping build or materially enhance a model risk management program.\nFamiliarity with bank regulatory examinations, charter readiness, or the implementation of risk programs within a growing financial institution.\nKnowledge of Haskell\nWhat success looks like:\nMercury maintains a complete and reliable view of its material models and aggregate model risk.\nCritical models receive timely, technically credible, and risk-based independent review.\nModel limitations, performance concerns, and remediation needs are clearly understood and acted upon.\nModel owners view Model Risk as a rigorous and constructive partner that improves decisions without creating unnecessary friction.\nMercury’s Model Risk Management program is scalable, practical, and ready to withstand regulatory and independent assurance review.\n*Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC.\nMercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.\nTotal Rewards\nThe total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.\nOur salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. 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