Project Manager – Market Risk recruitment
Project Manager – Market Risk
When you join Credit Suisse you’ll be in a great position to expand on your breadth of experience in risk and regulation, and add real value to your career. The CRO Change team in London is looking for an experienced Business Analyst / Project Manager to support front to back strategic process and systems change for the Market Risk (SRM IB) methodology book of work. The ideal candidate will meet the defined attributes for the role and display a high degree of energy, enthusiasm and passion for change including the ability to pro-actively engage in solution design and definition.
Credit Suisse
As one of the world's leading financial services groups, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Founded in 1856, Credit Suisse has a long tradition of meeting the complex financial needs of a wide range of clients, offering advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally. The Credit Suisse Group is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 50,000 people. Further information can be found at credit-suisse.com.
Your skills and qualifications will ideally include:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Major in Finance, Accounting or technical discipline
- Strong financial markets and deep market risk knowledge e.g. risk methodologies (e.g. VaR, IRC, ERC), risk practices, products, markets, risk concepts
- Proven Market Risk Management line experience within the Financial Services sector
- Proven experience in the Financial Services sector in a Market Risk change management / consulting role
- Experienced project manager with proven project management and delivery ability
- Proven change experience in an investment or large commercial bank, accountancy or consultancy firm
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Proven track record of delivery of change initiatives with material systems content
- Prince II Qualified
- Six Sigma qualified
- Good IT knowledge
Your main responsibilities will involve:
Project Management:
- Manage delivery of defined projects within time, cost and quality
- Engage / lead project working group / project team meetings
- Managing project phases independently – e.g. requirements analysis, user testing, managing of process change
- Manage project stakeholders
- Record and track risks and issues and manage them through to completion
- Assisting with project controls and communications. E.g.: Regular updates and escalation of key issues and risks to the project manager.
- Drive priorities
- Monitor project progress and communicate to programme and senior management
- Manage business analyst(s) tasks and activities within the project
Programme Management:
- Manage delivery of the market risk methodology programme of work
- Raise and communicate project delays, issue and risks to programme management
- Track performance against project metrics
- Lead steering committee meetings
- Engage with management of associated external projects
Business Analysis:
- Participate in all aspects of the project lifecycle
- Gathering and documenting data, related business requirements and functional specifications, including devising solutions to enhance controls and improve efficiencies e.g. metrics/data quality standards
- Facilitating prioritisation of work items
- Liaising with IT to define and monitor IT system solutions to support business change
- Co-ordinate testing: create test plans, define and manage UAT and manage defect tracking and resolution
- Managing user testing and acceptance of process and system change
- Defining and documenting procedures training, in conjunction with the line managers to support and control the new business processes and application
What we will be looking for in you:
• Challenge the status quo and bring new ideas to drive process improvements.
• First-class communication skills
• Ability to explain complex data to a non-technical audience
• Outstanding organisational abilities it takes to continuously deliver high quality work, even in high pressure situations.