Risk Model Management Specialist (Financial Crime Prevention - AML)

Quick Facts

• Role: Risk Model Management Specialist (Financial Crime Prevention - AML)

• Focus: Development, validation, and governance of transaction monitoring models

• Contract: B2B, full-time (40 h/week), hybrid (2–3 days/week in office)

• Rate: 100 PLN/h

• Language: Fluent English

• Locations: Gdańsk, Gdynia, Warsaw, or Łódź

Description

You will own the development, validation, and governance of transaction monitoring models within the bank’s Transaction Monitoring Unit (TMU). The role blends model risk expertise with hands-on analytics: you’ll set the direction for model development, ensure analytical rigor under practical constraints, and help strengthen model governance across the team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and validate transaction monitoring models with emphasis on documentation, review, and governance

• Lead TMU model governance activities, including validation assessments and incorporation of feedback from the second line of defence

• Define and execute the approach to model development and experimental design

• Document model design and outcomes; capture assumptions, limitations, and weaknesses with the analytics team

• Support hands-on prototyping of tests and analytical methods

• Mentor the analytics team and co-design model SOPs (data lineage and governance, tuning and calibration, and monitoring of model operations and outcomes)

• Coordinate professionally with internal and external stakeholders

Requirements

• Extensive experience in model risk management, model governance, and model validation

• Strong background in data science, statistics, and quantitative methods

• Experience in academic or technical writing, especially model documentation

• Advanced degree in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or Actuarial Science

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills

• Structured, proactive working style with initiative and ability to work independently

• Confidence setting direction and delivering results in a fast-changing environment

• Fluent English (spoken and written)

Benefits

• B2B full-time contract (40 h/week) with a hybrid work model (2–3 days/week in the office)

• Rate: 100 PLN/h