This is a remote position.
Financial Sector Economist - SD Modelling Collaboration
As a
Financial Sector Economist collaborating with WITTIGONIA, you will bring your regulatory and banking expertise to a meaningful applied System Dynamics modelling engagement with a public-sector financial authority. You will work alongside our SD modelling lead to ground a sophisticated simulation model in real-world supervisory logic - ensuring that what we build reflects how financial institutions actually behave, and how regulators actually think.
This is not a modelling role. You bring the financial sector depth; we bring the SD architecture, Vensim build, calibration, and interactive interface delivery. Together, the team delivers a model that gives supervisors a genuinely forward-looking, scenario-based risk assessment capability - moving beyond static ratios and point-in-time stress tests.
The engagement is part-time across approximately 12 months, remote-first, with a Q3 2026 start. It is structured as a B2B sub-consulting arrangement with back-to-back payment terms aligned to project milestones.
Key Responsibilities
- Review and validate the model's representation of banking sector behaviour - lending dynamics, capital management, credit risk, and liquidity - ensuring assumptions reflect supervisory reality
- Contribute to the literature review and benchmarking of comparable international modelling approaches in financial stability and institutional risk
- Help frame the conceptual model: identifying the key feedback loops, behavioural mechanisms, and macro-financial linkages that matter most in a regulatory context
- Participate in periodic remote working sessions with the project team and, where relevant, with the client's technical staff
- Review and strengthen technical reports and documentation, translating model outputs into language that resonates with supervisory stakeholders
- Support knowledge transfer activities, helping the client's team internalise the model's logic and assumptions
Requirements
Key Requirements include:
- Postgraduate degree (Masters or higher) in economics, finance, risk management, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in financial sector analysis, banking supervision, financial institution risk, or regulatory and supervisory advisory roles
- Direct experience working with or advising financial regulatory or supervisory institutions - central banks, financial sector authorities, or multilateral development institutions such as the IMF, World Bank, or regional equivalents
- Solid grounding in how banking institutions behave under stress: capital adequacy frameworks, liquidity management, credit risk dynamics, and the feedback between macroeconomic conditions and institutional risk profiles
- Ability to work across disciplines - translating regulatory and supervisory logic into structured analytical frameworks that can be operationalised in a simulation model
- Excellent written and spoken English; able to communicate complex financial concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable working in a small, agile, internationally distributed team with a remote-first culture
- Familiarity with stock-and-flow consistent models, System Dynamics, agent-based modelling, or other simulation approaches is an advantage but not required
- Experience in financial sector technical assistance, capacity-building, or IFI-funded consulting projects is a strong plus
- Knowledge of Basel III frameworks, macroprudential tools, or financial stability analytical methodologies is an asset
Benefits
Benefit from working in a forward thinking team
- Work with cutting-edge simulations from top-tier institutions and bespoke WITTIGONIA insights models
- Opportunity to travel and lead sessions across diverse audiences and industries
- Remote-first collaboration paired with in-person engagements where needed
- Continuous professional development in systems thinking, group model building, and workshop design
- Be part of a growing facilitator pool with opportunities to deliver across Europe and globally
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