Business Analyst / Project Manager
You'll need a sound background in financial services or consultancy for this lower managerial position, as well as a background in credit or market risk.
The FiRST programme launched late 2010 aiming to transform the Group Finance, Risk and Treasury systems to enable us to meet the significant challenges the industry faces in meeting statutory obligations. This will result in the ability to make timely, accurate and informed decisions in our markets, and manage our asset and liability positions efficiently and effectively. FiRST is one of the largest and most ambitious transformation programmes in the financial services industry. And is expected to be delivered over three years through a series of major releases with each release representing a large scale business change event for RBS.
FiRST Risk is the work stream delivering strategic business and technical architecture to support our aim to achieve AA grade status. The defining requirement is for a common technical architecture across Risk, Finance and Treasury verticals within the Group.
As a Business Analyst / Project Manager, you'll be a workstream lead with significant exposure to the PRA (Prudential Regulatory Authority) on a weekly basis and manage up to ten stakeholders. You will have responsibility for building solutions using the existing platforms, ensuring it ties in with the strategic platform. You'd also have responsibility for the design and development of customised reporting solutions across internal (strategic planning, risk appetite, economic capital, portfolio stress testing) and external (FSA, EBA, IMF, ICAAP, ILAA, FDSF, ratings agencies) data requirements. Additionally, you’re to be involved in the project delivery of the standing up strategic platform for stress testing input data feeds and related input data control processes. And you'll work with multiple consultancies and technology services to deliver required changes and assist in running steering committee(s) and other internal and external governance forums.
To succeed as a Business Analyst / Project Manager, it's important that you've a background in either financial services or consultancy, coupled with enterprise wide risk areas like economic capital stress testing data and have faced off to the regulators. You'll need excellent business or data analysis experience with project management rigour gained within a credit / operational / market risk environment. You'll also have experience of status reporting, phased delivery and management of programme issues and ideally have experience of risk transformation. And a broad understanding of banking products, including retail, corporate and financial markets products is highly desired.
In return, we offer an excellent employee salary and 30% cash and benefit funding programme which can be tailored to suit your individual needs. In addition to financial benefits, we offer a wide selection of exclusive lifestyle offers, development and learning programmes, services and support designed to help you manage and balance your own work-life priorities.
Please note as part of our referencing process credit checks will be undertaken.
If you'd like to discuss this role in confidence please contact Laura Adams on 0131 626 2413.
Did you know that RBS won a number of awards as a top employer in the UK in 2012? Best Business Awards 'Best Employer', Business In The Community Top 10 'Ethnic Equality’ ‘Gender’, Working Families 'Top 10 Employer', Workingmums.co.uk Top Employer 'Employee Engagement’, The Times Top 50 ‘Where Women Want to Work’, The Times Top 100 'Graduate Employers’, and The Sunday Times 100 ‘Best Companies to Work For’.
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