Risk Analyst

Grow your career as a Risk Analyst with an innovative global bank in Rutherford, NJ. Contract role with strong possibility of extension. Will require working a hybrid schedule 2-3 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 play a meaningful role in delivering high-quality modern solutions as part of an Agile Scrum team. Will be accountable for providing business process and procedure expertise to enable the Product Owner and Scrum Team to effectively evaluate and prioritize team's backlog. Will work closely with the Product Owner, software engineers and testers on the Scrum team to deliver on the commitments made during sprint planning. 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 degree.
• 10 to 15 years of financial services implementation experience, analytics, or related risk management function.
• Extensive Risk Management experience preferably Enterprise Risk.
• Extensive Project Management or Product Ownership experience.
• Strong business analysis skills including process mapping and improvement.
• Experience in Data Governance/Controls including Data Quality, Data gaps assessment/remediation specifically.
• Experience in any BI Reporting tool such as Tableau/MicroStrategy.
• Ability to spot, escalate and suggest fixes for data hygiene issues.
• Ability to thoroughly document assumptions, methodology, validation and testing to facilitate knowledge sharing and compliance requirements.
• Expertise in business analysis, requirements gathering, senior stakeholder engagement.
• In-depth understanding and experience of creating dashboards and reports in Tableau with the use of Tableau Prep.
• Experience on a project delivery team in an agile environment, optimally as a member of a Scrum Team.
• Experience and demonstrated understanding of both the business and technical requirements and constraints relative to a team's backlog of stories.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Agile certifications.
• Tableau Certification.
• Experience in Generative AI.
• Understanding of variety of risk types (Wholesale Credit, Market, Consumer, Operational, Reputational, Liquidity, etc.).

What You Will Be Doing

• Partner with Product Owner to decompose and refine features and stories to effectively represent business requirements and desired outcomes.
• Work with the Scrum Team to translate the 'what' defined by the Product Owner into the 'how'.
• Partner with Product Owner to create user story acceptance criteria.
• Engage and partner with QA/UAT to design optimal test coverage to validate business outcomes.
• Create business use cases leveraging deep understanding of business process flow and procedures.
• Lead process documentation development for change events to include change management approach.
• Work closely with engineering partners to develop solutions which meet the business requirements in an optimal, lean fashion.
• Engage in scrum ceremonies.
• Work across lines of business and teams to minimize risks and drive efficiency for solution.