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Sia Partners

Management consulting integrating AI and design

Manager – Quantitative Risk Modelling - Stress Testing & Model Risk

Quantitative RiskConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeÎle-de-France, FranceNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Hold a Bac+5 qualification from a leading engineering school, business school, or university.
  • Have 3 to 6 years of experience in consulting, a Big Four firm, general inspection, a modelling or validation team, a Risk or ALM department, a Finance department, or a quantitative function at a financial institution.
  • Have significant exposure to the development, validation, or governance of models.
  • Have in-depth expertise in one or more quantitative modelling areas, including credit/IRB and IFRS 9, market/FRTB, counterparty and XVA, ALM/IRRBB, liquidity, economic capital, stress testing, or Model Risk Management, and a sound command of associated metrics such as PD/LGD/EAD, ECL, VaR/ES, EE/EPE/PFE, XVA, EVE/NII, Credit VaR, RWA, and economic capital.
  • Have strong quantitative and methodological skills in statistics, econometrics, probability, time series, financial mathematics, simulation methods, and data science, and command regression and classification techniques, factor models, Monte Carlo methods, loss distributions, correlations and dependencies, satellite models, backtesting, benchmarking, and challenger models.
  • Command modelling tools and frameworks, including practical experience with Python, R, SAS, SQL, or Matlab, and understand CRR3/CRD6, IRB, the ECB Guide to Internal Models, IFRS 9, FRTB, SA-CCR, ICAAP/ILAAP, and stress testing requirements.
  • Be interested in data and AI topics and able to develop skills quickly in these areas.
  • Speak French and English fluently in a professional context.

Responsibilities

  • Manage client relationships on existing engagements and participate in identifying and developing new opportunities.
  • Supervise consultants on client engagements or internal firm projects, including working groups and training.
  • Contribute actively to the team's publication policy, including strategic thinking for the firm, prospective studies, and sector analysis.
  • Design, calibrate, and validate credit, IRB, IFRS 9, market, counterparty, XVA, ALM, IRRBB, liquidity, and economic-capital models and related frameworks.
  • Design end-to-end scenario analysis and stress-testing frameworks, including vulnerability identification, macrofinancial and geopolitical scenario construction, shock calibration, satellite model development, multi-year balance-sheet, profit-and-loss, and capital projections, reverse stress testing, management actions, second-round effects, and business-model breaking-point analysis.
  • Develop physical and transition climate-risk models, damage functions, hazard-exposure-vulnerability approaches, and financial transmission analysis for geopolitical scenarios.
  • Independently validate models through conceptual and methodological review, quantitative replication, challenger models, and analysis of data and assumptions; test discrimination, calibration, stability, drift, backtesting, benchmarking, sensitivity, robustness, uncertainty, and limitations.
  • Develop and validate classification, regression, and ensemble models, reviewing feature engineering, hyperparameter tuning, overfitting, stability, data drift, bias, explainability, and benchmarking against traditional approaches.
  • Design and transform Model Risk Management frameworks, including model scope, taxonomy and inventory, materiality and tiering, ownership, lifecycle, development and validation standards, model-change policy, performance monitoring, and management of limitations, findings, exceptions, model-risk appetite, controls, and reporting.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with machine learning, artificial intelligence, explainability, model monitoring, or model industrialisation.

About the Company

Sia Partners

Management consulting integrating AI and design

Sia Partners is a management consulting firm that blends AI and design with traditional advisory to help clients improve performance. Its approach combines thorough analysis of competitive, regulatory, and organizational factors with AI-enabled and design-driven solutions across 30+ sectors, delivered by a global network of 2,400 consultants in 38 countries. It differentiates itself by staying independent from the IT services industry (a pure-player) and embracing a Consulting for Good mindset that creates CSR-enabled, sustainable transformations. Its goal is to become a leading independent management consulting firm in Europe, driving value-driven change for clients and responsible growth.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding
$12.7M
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1999

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