Grow your career as a Market Risk Project Manager with an innovative global bank in New York, NY. Contract role with strong possibility of extension or conversion. Will require working a hybrid schedule 3 days onsite per week.
Join one of the world's most renowned global banks and trusted brand with over 200 years of continuously evolving financial services worldwide. Will be part of a core central Program Management Team charged with ensuring the timely execution of deliverables across all workstreams whilst imparting subject matter expertise and know-how. You will work alongside some of the smartest minds in the industry who are excited to share their knowledge and to learn from you.
Contract Duration: 11+ Months
Required Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s/University degree.
- 5+ years of experience working in Market Risk.
- Experienced Project Management/Transformation/Change Management background with extensive FRTB Markert Risk subject matter expertise.
- Understanding of FRTB regulations and implementation.
- Regulatory Understanding and experience with regulatory interpretation.
- Project management skills.
- Experience working with front office policies and mandates.
- Experience working on front office change projects (desk facing).
- Market risk experience.
- Transformation/change management/PMO experience with a focus on Capital Markets initiatives to address regulatory, audit, risk and control and/or risk management issues.
- Working knowledge of Markets business and products (FICC and Equities) and/or regulatory capital.
- Ability to influence and build collaborative relationships across Global Markets front-to-back stakeholders, e.g., trading desk, finance, operations, technology, risk management.
- Strong & proven track record in strategic project management and delivering complex solutions are essential.
- Significant experience in scoping, developing and prioritizing plans for strategic initiatives.
- A solid understanding of mechanisms to track and communicate performance
- Ability to drive change to business practices by working effectively across a global organization and understand different perspectives.
Desired Skills & Experience
- Master’s degree
- 10+ years of financial industry experience.
- Experience in Market Risk and Regulatory related projects.
- Project Management certifications e.g. PMP or equivalent.
- Experience analyzing large datasets using SQL, Python.
What You Will Be Doing
- Translate regulation into what work and activity needs to be done.
- Liaise with stakeholders and accountable executives to drive regulatory change / workstream implementation.
- Assist in ensuring that all target state tools, processes and controls are socialized effectively and are approved at or by the appropriate governance forum or level.
- Manage internal and external dependencies across initiatives, including working closely with Risk Managers, Product Owners, Front Office, Product Control and Technology teams.
- Identify challenges and proactively seek to resolve or escalate risk and issues in a timely and well-articulated manner to the projects by engaging relevant stakeholders and PMs.
- Engage senior stakeholders continuously by escalating and resolving issues as they arise.
- Produce accurate and insightful project update materials and artifacts, tailoring to various forums and committees.
- Build strong relationships, adopting a joined up approach, to support the execution of programs.