Model and Credit Risk Intern

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At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Job Description:

As a Model and Credit Risk professional in Crowe’s Consulting Practice, you will be focused on helping clients resolve business needs through analyzing their risk and control environment, evaluating compliance with regulatory requirements, along with defining, developing, and implementing business processes, and controls, and technology solutions.  

Our Model and Credit Risk team members work very collaboratively within and across teams based on our clients’ specific issues and needs.  

Models are essential tools that help organizations measure risk, meet regulatory requirements, and make smarter, faster decisions. Our model risk management team ensures these models operate effectively and align with regulatory expectations. As part of this team, you will support clients in strengthening their model risk management programs by validating, assessing, and testing model components—identifying gaps, weaknesses, and areas for improvement to mitigate risk and enhance decision-making.  

At Crowe, we empower you to take risks, to challenge yourself in specialized areas of consulting & technology, and to generate solutions that impact the firm and your professional growth. Crowe cultivates a creative company culture where you will have the opportunity to share your ideas and knowledge with clients from your very first day with the firm.  

Expectations/Responsibilities:  

• Develop governance frameworks (policies, standards, risk assessments) to assess, monitor, and manage model risk.   

• Understand the client’s business model and the risk characteristics of their loan and deposit portfolios.   

• Assess the conceptual design, data sourcing and preparation, implementation, performance, and governance of the client’s models.   

• Apply quantitative knowledge to test model specification.   

• Review machine learning and artificial intelligence models and their use cases.   

• Create and deliver value-added reports and projects through strong deliverables that simplify complex issues and enable effective and efficient risk management for our clients.  

• Collaborate and develop partnerships with clients, prospects, colleagues, and communities.  

• Innovate new ideas and solutions to address existing and emerging areas of risks.  

• Exhibit strong communication skills when consulting with senior management, C-Suite client personnel, and government regulators  

• Learn and work well both in a team environment and independently.   

• Adapt to continuously changing risk environments and effectively manage time  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity to enable a deeply specialized skill set  

• Adapt to continuously changing risk environments and effectively managing time.  

• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills  

• Have a moderate understanding of Banking and Finance.  

• Capable of working in a demanding, deadline-driven environment  

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite applications with specific emphasis on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint  

• Utilize data analytics applications like PowerBI and/or Tableau and programming languages (e.g., SAS, R, Python, etc.) (preferred)  

• Desire to sit for and obtain a firm supported certification (e.g., FRM, CRCM, CFA, etc.)  

• Willingness to travel up to 25% or more annually  

Education:  

Outstanding academic performance in one of following preferred majors or similar background:   

• Actuarial Science  

• Business/Data Analytics  

• Economics  

• Financial Engineering  

• Engineering  

• Finance  

• Statistics/Mathematics  

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values