Senior Consultant - Project Manager - Investment Banking - Risk Domain

Position Specifications: Experience

5+ years of relevant experience either as Project Manager (Investment Banking) preferably in the Risk domain.

Qualification: Graduate

Role Description:

Project Manager

The role is for a Project Manager within the Risk & Finance Change team to own one or more projects within the Risk Strategy Programme from inception through to delivery. Specific responsibilities will include:

- Agreeing project scope with senior stakeholders and managing the project scope throughout the project lifecycle.

- Estimating and planning projects including agreeing resource requirements across the Business, Technology and Change functions.

- Managing all resources that form part of the delivery team for the project, incorporating all resources and their activities into clearly stated defendable plan for the project(s).

- Clearly defining success criteria for each stage of the project and ensuring successful completion of all tasks within the project plan on time and within budget.

- Understanding and monitoring cross-project dependencies that may impact project delivery.

- Ensuring delivery of projects is in accordance with the investment bank's project management protocols and standards.

- Effective stakeholder management relating to the project, ensuring through both day to day management, and in governance, that project status clearly articulated and timely in its delivery.

- Proactive management of issues and risks pertaining to the project(s) with appropriate escalation where required.

- Compilation of high quality routine weekly status reporting and governance reporting in accordance with the bank's reporting standards.

- Understanding the front to back risk business processes allowing for optimal requirements gathering and synergies between projects.

Skills,experience, qualifications and knowledge required.

- Degree(or equivalent) in a relevant discipline.

- Extensive knowledge of either credit risk or market risk management to enable clear, detailed specification of business requirements, and the assessment of proposed technical solutions for suitability in delivering the project objectives (e.g. Historical Simulation and Monte Carlo VaR techniques, Stress Testing, IMM, etc.)

- Demonstrable ability and confidence to build relationships across Risk Management, Technology and Finance at all levels.

- Proven track record as a project manager with experience of delivering technology change and business change in a risk management function.

- Demonstrable evidence of managing a full project lifecycle including: project initiation, requirements specification,development, test planning, test execution, and post-implementation roll out.

- Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence and motivate others.

- Ability to drive and manage multiple projects at the same time.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels.

- Strong analytical capability with close attention to detail.

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