Project Manager with Market Risk

Job Title: Project Manager with Market Risk Duration: Full Time Location: Jersey City, NJ (3 days per week onsite)

Responsibilities:

• Have direct delivery responsibility for their projects (i.e. end to end ownership).
• Have oversight of all projects and recognize when projects may be off track.
• Identify risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies and proactively manage/report RAIDs.
• Consistently meet with team members to understand progress and issues across projects and provide support as necessary.
• Be responsible for writing detailed status reporting and preparing materials to present to stakeholders.

Desired Experience:

• A flexible, hardworking and "can do" attitude; comfortable working in a fast paced environment with frequent release cycles and rapidly changing priorities.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively communicate within a multi-disciplined team, across multiple locations and time zones, and to interact with demanding business users.
• Strong project management and organization skills, attention to details.
• Familiarity with principles of scaled agile delivery, PI planning, and agile scrum methodology
• Ability to remove obstacles and influence others to move projects forward.
• Strong financial markets product knowledge, market risk experience (any asset class).
• Excellent technical skills; SQL, MS Excel, Jira, MS Project, SharePoint, Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Word.
• Computer Engineering/Financial Degree
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Experience with VaR, Risk Analytics would be a definite advantage
• Exposure to financial / product control functions within a bank.
• Exposure to Program Project Risk Tool (PPRT)