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The Role
Provide financial-sector and regulatory expertise for a System Dynamics modeling project supporting supervisory risk assessment. Validate banking behavior assumptions covering lending, capital, credit risk, and liquidity; contribute to literature reviews and conceptual model development; translate model outputs for supervisory stakeholders; strengthen documentation; and support knowledge transfer. The role is part-time, remote, and structured as a B2B sub-consulting engagement over approximately 12 months.
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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.
- 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
Learn more about WITTIGONIA Dynamics - our system modelling and simulation practice: https://wittigonia.net/service/system-dynamics-simulation/
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Skills Required
- Postgraduate degree at master's level 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 authorities, or multilateral development institutions
- Strong knowledge of capital adequacy frameworks, liquidity management, credit risk dynamics, and macro-financial impacts on institutional risk
- Ability to translate regulatory and supervisory logic into structured analytical frameworks for simulation models
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Ability to communicate complex financial concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to work in a small, agile, internationally distributed, remote-first team
- Familiarity with stock-and-flow consistent models, System Dynamics, agent-based modeling, or other simulation approaches
- Experience in financial-sector technical assistance, capacity-building, or IFI-funded consulting projects
- Knowledge of Basel III frameworks, macroprudential tools, or financial stability analytical methodologies
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What We Do
WITTIGONIA (WITTIGONIA GmbH) is a Heidelberg, Germany-based digital marketing agency and consulting firm led by founder and CEO Thomas Wittig. Positioned as an independent business advisory and innovation partner, it bridges strategic vision and operational execution by integrating three disciplines: digital growth (performance marketing, SEO/SEA, recruitment marketing), data intelligence (analytics and decision support), and system dynamics (strategic simulation and management modeling). The company holds certified Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Amazon Ads, and Zoho partnerships and serves brands, institutions, and high-growth companies across Europe with a digital-first, remote team approach.
