Joshua Wander
Managing Director - Credit Data, Analytics, and Modeling at Northwest Bancshares, Inc.
- Role
- Managing Director - Credit Data, Analytics, and Modeling at Northwest Bank
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Joshua Wander
Executive with 18+ years in Financial Services, driving efficiency and growth through…
Experience
Managing Director - Credit Data, Analytics, and Modeling
Dec 2017 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US
Defined and executed the strategic vision and standards for the bank’s model development activities and model development data• Oversaw the development, performance, and controls of 30+ models related to retail and commercial loan origination, pricing, risk rating, loss forecasting (CECL), and stress testing (DFAST/CCAR), deposit account origination and pricing, macroeconomic forecasting, fraud, anti-money laundering (AML), asset and liability management (ALM), and marketing• Managed each model throughout its life cycle - initiation (requirements, build vs. buy), design (data requirements and methodology selection), development (model fitting), implementation (user acceptance testing), performance monitoring, change management, and retirement and replacement• Directly improved the bank’s efficiency ratio by sourcing, reviewing, and obtaining new data, technology, software, and partnerships, reducing software and third-party expenses by sourcing and training teams of high-performing quantitative professionals, and identifying inefficiencies that can be alleviated with analytics, models, or AI/ML, and rapidly remediating regulatory, audit, and compliance concerns related to models• Led data-driven due diligence for merger and acquisition (M&A) activity and peer comparison
Education
North Carolina State University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) / Minor, Applied Mathematics / Economics
1999 — 2003
University of Pittsburgh
Master's Degree, Financial Mathematics
2004 — 2006
Skills
- Matlab
- Windows 7
- Sql
- Regulatory Requirements
- Forecasting
- Microsoft Excel
- Credit Scoring
- Financial Modeling
- Reserve Analysis
- Econometric Modeling
- Portfolio Performance Analysis
- Ead
- Data Analysis
- Regulatory Capital
- Linear Regression
- Lgd
- Basel Ii
- Regression Analysis
- Scorecard
- Microsoft Office
- Mathematical Modeling
- Jcl
- Behavioral Modeling
- Unix
- Credit Risk
- Sampling
- Pd
- Access
- Macroeconomics
- Mathematical Analysis
- Scorecard Management
- Loss Mitigation
- Kpi Dashboards
- Regulatory Documentation
- R
- Alll
- Validation
- Tableau
- Regression Testing
- Credit Analysis
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