Portfolio & Model Manager,London/ Belfast

Location & Office Policy: London/Belfast with 3 days in-office per week.

At AIB, our values guide how we work and how we support each other. We’re looking for someone who puts Customer First, takes initiative and Owns the Outcome, and is always looking for ways to Eliminate Complexity. You’ll treat colleagues and customers with fairness and Show Respect, and you’ll thrive in a culture built on collaboration where we Be One Team to deliver meaningful impact.

Do you want to use models, data and insight to support better credit portfolio decisions? Are you comfortable translating complex model and data outputs into clear senior-level messages? Are you looking for a senior hands-on role shaping how models, data and analytics support portfolio management, regulatory engagement and business decision-making?

What is the Role: The UK Portfolio Management Unit supports AIB UK’s strategy by delivering timely, high-quality portfolio oversight, insightful reporting and forward-looking risk assessment across the credit book. This is a senior hands-on role responsible for leading the Models & Data agenda within UK PMU. The role will shape direction, lead the team and drive improvements in how models, data and analytics support portfolio oversight, regulatory submissions, senior governance and business decision-making.

The role will lead first-line Model Owner activity for nominated UK credit models, including IRB, credit grading, IFRS 9, stress testing and other models used to support portfolio assessment, impairment, capital, risk appetite and forward-looking risk insight. The role will also strengthen PMU’s data and analytical capability, ensuring the data used for portfolio reporting, model oversight, ICAAP, EWI reporting, regulatory submissions and business decisions is well understood, controlled, traceable and fit for purpose. This includes improving data quality, automation, reporting efficiency, model output insight and the consistency of committee-ready materials.

The successful candidate will work closely with Credit, Risk, Analytics, Finance, Data, Technology and Group model teams to represent UK business requirements in model development, deployment, monitoring and change activity.

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead the UK PMU Models & Data agenda, setting direction for model ownership, model output insight, data quality, traceability, automation, tooling and analytical capability.
• Lead and develop the team, building capability across model oversight, data analysis, issue management, documentation and stakeholder engagement.
• Act as first-line Model Owner for nominated UK credit models, ensuring model use, outputs, limitations, controls, monitoring, documentation and evidence are well governed.
• Represent UK business requirements across the model lifecycle, ensuring UK portfolio characteristics, data requirements, reporting needs and management uses are reflected.
• Interpret model outputs and movements, including ECL drivers, PMA impacts, grading changes, PD/LGD/EAD movements, parameter changes, overlays, overrides, limitations and model change impacts, and translate these into clear business insight.
• Produce and present committee-ready material, including model owner updates, ECL / PMA analysis, impairment commentary, ICAAP credit inputs, EWI insight, portfolio deep dives, data quality responses and regulatory-facing materials.
• Lead PMU data requirements for reporting, regulatory requests, model oversight and change activity, ensuring data definitions, lineage, ownership, controls, quality issues and automation opportunities are understood and managed.
• Drive enhancements and efficiencies across PMU model, data and reporting processes, reducing manual workarounds and improving quality, consistency, repeatability, control and decision-useful insight.
• Partner across UK and Group stakeholders to deliver model, data and reporting improvements aligned to UK business needs.
• Maintain strong governance and control evidence across model and data activity, including monitoring plans, documentation, issue logs, audit actions, validation findings, regulatory actions and escalation of material risks or gaps.

What You Will Bring:

• Significant experience in financial services, ideally within credit risk, portfolio management, model ownership, model governance, impairment, capital, analytics, data, regulatory reporting or first-line risk management.
• Strong understanding of credit models and model governance, including IRB, credit grading models, IFRS 9, stress testing, ECL, PMAs, overlays and models used in portfolio risk assessment.
• Good understanding of key model components and outputs, including PD, LGD, EAD, grading movements, parameter changes, model limitations and monitoring results.
• Experience across the model lifecycle, including development, validation engagement, deployment, monitoring, model change, documentation, evidence and issue closure.
• Strong data capability, including experience with large datasets, data warehouses, dashboards, reporting tools, data definitions, lineage, data quality and control issues.
• Proven ability to create clear, decision-ready narratives from model outputs, data analysis and portfolio trends for senior committee, board or regulatory materials.
• Experience driving improvements, enhancements or efficiencies across reporting, analytics, model oversight, data quality or governance processes.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with confidence engaging across business, Credit, Risk, Finance, Analytics, Data, Technology and model specialist teams.
• Ability to lead others, manage competing priorities and maintain momentum across model, data, reporting and change dependencies.
• Strong analytical capability with Excel and BI tools such as QlikView, Tableau or Power BI; SQL, SAS or similar data querying capability would be advantageous.

Benefits:

• Variable Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Family leave options

Why Work for AIB: We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live and our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements.

AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please email the Talent Acquisition team at careers@aib.ie.