This is a technical project leadership role. A successful candidate will have prior exposure to Project Management best practices, ideally in a technical, data science or quantitative risk environment.

The candidate should be capable of:

- The planning and change management for specific MRM projects

- Engaging with stakeholders and ensuring that projects are clearly defined, deliverables and milestones established, governance structures set up (working groups, steerco etc).

- Understanding the technical aspects of the work done by Model Risk professionals - this can be either IT/technology related, data science or quantitative finance related.

- Proposing solutions that lie at the intersection of the above three.

Main duties include:

- Developing project plans for specific transformation initiatives that have an impact across the organisation

- Liasoning with stakeholders for specific Model Risk programs and projects

- Managing deliverables (decks, reports, minutes, status updates) for specific change management fora, including material design, forum scope and provision of material to senior management presentations

- Developing or maintaining tools for automation of activities either related to items in the teams book of work, or automation of activities in other parts of Model Risk.

- Engaging with Technology and Infrastructure teams and able to act as a bridge between stakeholders and IT teams tasked with delivery.

- Holding regular technical team meetings to help address any questions or challenges regarding upcoming projects

What will you be doing?

- Project Management of MRM Projects and workstreams within larger Programs.

- Technology management, engaging with stakeholders to understand requirements and with technology teams to formulate solutions.

- Develop or support building of automation solutions, scripts, tools.

- Support users of automation systems and applications where necessary.

- Research and evaluate software and technology options for each project.

- Drive and support data driven decision making.

What we're looking for:

- Automation - Ability to analyse, design and automate processes

- Project Management - Ability to run projects independently and has a grasp of PM concepts and best practices.

- Experience of or exposure to either Technology or Data Science: Ability to understand, discuss, design and implement solutions. Should be able to write code when necessary.

- Communication - Strong communication skills.

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Honours or Masters degree in a numerate subject such as Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or Computational Science

- Knowledge of / experience in Alteryx, Tableu, Python

- Experience in API development with Flask, WSGI, open-shift and object-oriented function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala etc

- Experience with Project Management tools (JIRA, MS Project) and the MS Suite (Word, Excel, PPT, Project, Visio and SharePoint skills)

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