Project Manager – Market Risk recruitment
As an experienced project manager, your skills will include the following:
- 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
If you feel you meet this brief, please submit a copy of your CV.
August 19, 2012
• Tags: Information Technology careers in the UK, Market Risk recruitment, Project Manager • Posted in: Financial