Vice President (Markets- Treasury), Independent Model Review

Job Description

Role Title: Vice President (Markets- Treasury), Independent Model Review

Location (Country / City) : Bangalore , Gurgaon, Kolkata /India

Model Risk Management (MRM), part of Global Risk & Compliance, is responsible for providing second line of defense for HSBC’s model risk. Model Risk Management comprises of five key areas, led by the Chief Model Risk Officer:

• Independent Model Review - Independently reviewing and (re)validating models and methodologies across functions and risk types within the bank.
• Model Risk Governance - Setting the firm’s model risk policies and standards as well as ensuring that model risk is managed within the approved tolerance levels.
• Model Risk Stewardship - Facilitating responsible development, understanding and use of models and analytics, as well as providing subject matter expertise, advice, guidance, and effective challenge across regions, businesses and functions.
• Regulatory Standards and Quality Assurance - Providing expertise and partnering to Senior Management for reviewing and decision making, by developing opinions and interpretations of relevant regulatory changes impacting model risk.
• Infrastructure – Providing Global Model Inventory System (GMIS) management, maintenance and user engagement, along with report production and technology enhancements.
• Independent Model Review (IMR), is a specialist quantitative team and are responsible for carrying out independent validations of HSBC’s new and existing business use of quantitative models, to identify and communicate model risk.
• Model types include, but are not limited to Credit Risk models (Retail and Wholesale), IFRS9 models, Stress Testing and Scenario Analysis models, Economic Capital models, Financial Vulnerability models, Pricing models, Traded Risk models and Insurance Risk models. This includes the traditional model types as well as modern approaches such as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques.
• Independent Model Review provides independent challenge of a model’s underlying theoretical assumptions and limitations, its practical implementation, its live application and business usage, providing stakeholders (including model users, senior management, audit and regulators) with assurance that models and tools developed, maintained and used within HSBC Group are fit for their intended purposes and are compliant with applicable internal and supervisory expectations.
• Independently review and mentor juniors in model validation pertaining to Asset Liability Management models (Liquidity and IRRBB) including Net Interest Income (NII) modeling, Economic Value of Equity (EVE) modeling, Prepayment modeling, Cash flow forecasting of various asset classes, LCR/NSFR computation and Funding ratio analysis etc.
• Review Pricing Models- Derivatives/ Product Control and hedging models, Structural Interest rate risk, Multi - Curve construction, OIS discounting and Earning at Risk