IRB Credit Modelling Project Manager - 24 Month FTC

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Overall Summary

An exciting opportunity to project manage the Credit Risk Modelling team which is scheduled to deliver the underlying credit models to support the Banks A-IRB application.

The Senior Project Manager plans, executes, and delivers all projects on time, in budget, and within scope in accordance with business priorities. Throughout the lifecycle of each project, the Senior Project Manager tracks the project status, and manages project teams to mitigate issues and risks.

Responsibilities

• Defines and creates project plans for project, portfolio, and product prioritisation and implementation
• Evaluates trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value
• Partners with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria
• Builds, leads, and coaches multiple project teams throughout project lifecycles
• Facilitates all operational checkpoint activities throughout the lifecycle of projects
• Assesses and resolves all high priority project risks as they are encountered
• Ensures all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards set by the company
• Continually updates relevant business stakeholder of project status
• Ensures all projects meet success parameters and ROI targets stated in business case
• Engages with 3rd parties and is closely involved with the procurement of services, hardware and software throughout the project lifecycle
• Actively manages 3rd party relationships
• Runs and manages successful RFP processes within the project lifecycle
• Ensures project audit records are up to date and accessible
• Keeps project financial records up to date, ensuring appropriate levels of contingency are being held for the unknowns
• Assists with running quality assurance reviews
• Supports the recruitment and on boarding of project staff
• Line/matrix management for a team of Project Managers and Project Support Officers, responsible for
• Proactively manage team and individual performances by coaching and regular feedback
• Ensure a high quality of work via regular assurance activities
  
  

Risk & Compliance

• Ensure that all Governance and Compliance requirements are adhered to and all reporting and reviewing activities required by the Regulatory Bodies are carried out to the standards required.
  
  

Developing Our People

• As a line manager, you will be responsible for increasing productivity and developing performance through coaching, mentoring and developing your team members. You will encourage your team to take responsibility for their own personal development and provide support through regular feedback.
  
  

We Would Love To Hear From You If

• Experience of project delivery in a regulatory environment
• Experience of project delivery in a Credit Risk environment
• Excellent project management, organisation, and team collaboration skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent facilitation, collaboration, negotiation, and presentation skills
• Ability to anticipate risks and devise solutions in the moment
• Comfort with ambiguity, frequent change, or unpredictability
• Strong team leadership skills
• Understanding of software development lifecycles (i.e. Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall, Iterative)
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Significant experience managing medium to high complexity projects
• Experience working on project and portfolio management Tools (Visio, MS Project, Clarity, etc.)
  
  

IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU:

• Experience in Credit Risk modelling
• PMI certification or equivalent preferred
  
  

At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.

We appreciate that from time to time, recruitment agencies will have speculative CVs that they may wish to submit to our Talent Acquisition team in relation to a specific role.

To avoid any ambiguity around fees, please note that speculative CVs received by Close Brothers, that have not been authorised in advance, by us, will be ineligible for an agency fee. Thank you.