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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