Consultant, Financial Modeling

For more than 20 years, financial institutions in the Federal, private and public sectors have called on FI Consulting to address complex and high-stakes analytical challenges that are closely scrutinized by executives, auditors, regulators and stakeholders. We help clients succeed by applying our core strengths in business applications of Data Management, Analytics, Modeling, and Business Architecture to gain insight, increase performance, manage risk, and improve operations.

FI Consulting is a fast-moving, high-growth firm with huge potential. FI offers variety, challenge, responsibility and the opportunity to realize your leadership potential.

FI's Financial Modeling role encompasses the methodologies, tools, and approaches that transform client data into a valuable asset.

Project Description:

The candidate will provide support to large, high-profile government clients in developing, enhancing, and executing credit models to estimate the cost of their lending portfolios. Responsibilities include:

• Enhance credit risk models based on self-validation of model performance, policy changes, and agency initiatives.
• Execute credit models and prepare model outputs for submission in the President's Budget and Financial Statements.
• Maintain suite of documentation of model functions and processes, key model assumptions, model testing, and internal control processes.
• Conduct sensitivity, decomposition, and scenario analyses to help assess model performance.
• Develop credit models to estimate the cost of new credit programs.
• Analyze historical program and market data to help develop performance assumptions for credit models.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2+ Years of relevant experience (financial modeling, data analysis)
• Undergraduate degree in related field (finance, mathematics, statistics, etc.).
• Proficiency in SAS, R, Python and/or similar programming languages. Candidate should be able to demonstrate strong technical skills.
• Prior experience working with FCRA subsidy models is preferred but not required.
• US Citizenship required for client's work

Who We Are:

FI Consulting is a 80+ person professional services firm that helps government and commercial financial institutions solve hard problems in data, analytics, modeling, and technology. Our professionals are specialists with expertise across a range of fields, for example:

• Financial and economic modeling
• Data analytics & visualization
• Financial products and markets
• Economics and statistics
• Business process management and re-engineering

What it's really like to work for us:

You will work with a team of smart, talented people in a culture that is simultaneously driven, collegial, and supportive. We set high expectations for employees in the areas of project delivery excellence, building trusted client relationships, and continuous improvement. We insist on teamwork and collaboration.

As part of our meritocratic culture, we strongly encourage each of our employees to remain committed to "stretching" the levels of their most current professional strengths to continuously adapt, grow and expand their subject matter expertise for the benefit of adding value to our clients. The emphasis on stretch starts at the very top of our organization and is promoted throughout to all members of our team. The desire of our employees to stretch is critical to effectively, and with greater flexibility, plan project assignments and subsequently position our people and the company for future success.

Our Company Values & Operateson:

• A Commitment to Creating Value for our Clients and our Employees
• A Flat Management Structure that is Still Led by one of the Original Founders
• An Emphasis on Teamwork and Cooperation
• Employee Development and Career Growth
• Continuous Improvement
• An Entrepreneurial Culture that Rewards Finding, Developing, and Owning Business

Security Requirements:

• Authorized to work in the United States as a US Citizen. We are not able to accept Permanent Residents or sponsor or accept any VISA Holders at this time including OPT, H1B, EAD.
• As a condition of employment with FI Consulting all job applicants will be required to successfully complete a background investigation, which will include a pre-employment drug screen and a credit check.
• Reside in the DC Metro area within 30 days of hire.
• Secure and protect company and client data and information and prevent its improper disclosure.

FLSA Designation - This is an exempt position.FI Consulting is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.FI Consulting participates in E-Verify.