The Role: Business & Technology Senior Consultant
The Team:
Financial Risk Analytics (FRA) delivers enterprise risk solutions to some of the largest firms in the financial services industry, and is part of S&P Global, a dynamic entrepreneurial company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
The Client Onboarding, Integration and Support Services (COISS) team within FRA is responsible for delivering our solutions to our clients, from pre-sales through go-live.
This position is for an Associate level London-based Business Consultant running FRA client projects across EMEA. In addition to the detailed job description below, client relationship management is an important requirement of the role. Ensuring a high level of satisfaction by effective management of client needs is a core part of project management in FRA.
The Impact:
As a key player within the COISS team, you will have the opportunity to work with major key clients. This is a great opportunity for you to grow professionally as well as contribute to the growth of the business. Your contribution and dedication to your role is critical as you have a direct impact on business generation, and ongoing Support. You will be able to lead from the front and have direct impact for future growth.
What's in it for you:
Do you thrive in a dynamic environment, where the work changes daily? FRA is currently investing in their technology platform to develop a number of new revenue generating products, leveraging open source and big data technologies. These include visualisation, risk aggregation and smart data initiatives that address new data, risk and regulatory requirements and are highly visible and strategic within the organisation. FRA also uses successful conventional technologies such as distributed computing based on grids, large data formats, and message queue for both batch and real-time what-if type calculations. You will be involved in these exciting initiatives, using best of breed technologies, such as Hadoop, Spark, HDFS, HBase, Cassandra along with in-house developed technologies, and the successful candidate will be working in a fast paced, dynamic team environment, building commercial products which are at the heart of the business.
Responsibilities: - Manage a portfolio of FRA prospects and clients in managing and controlling a wide variety of project activities
- Prepare and execute on senior stakeholder reporting and communication needs
- Effectively communicate overall project status to internal and external stakeholders
- Balance the resourcing schedule for in-progress and planned project work
- Provide an ongoing risk management capability for the business
- Prepare and maintain business case and project initiation materials, including the ongoing project pipeline
- Capture and consolidate project metrics, and implement and leverage KPIs across the group, to assist in ongoing planning and continuous improvement
- Prioritize tasks and effectively manage day to day issues
- Coordinate project and workflow management with financial engineering, design, development and QA teams
- Prepare End Project and Lessons Learned reports to assist in ongoing planning and continuous improvement
- Support and review the work of other project managers within FRA, in applying best practice and standardized process where appropriate
- Support and provide holiday cover for other project managers
- Be flexible in dealing with large waterfall, agile, and RAID deliveries as required by the needs of the project in question
- Co-ordinate release window activity between various impacted groups and stakeholders
- Support FRA sales colleagues with project management expertise as required.
- Includes taking complete ownership of the steps that needs to be taken to deliver daily results to clients
- Quality check input and output data
- Troubleshoot errors and work with internal groups to provide resolution
- Respond to client requests by providing detailed analysis and feedback
- Perform testing to ensure the product in UAT, pre-prod environment emulate the same design setup in the production environment as well
What We're Looking For:
We value partnership and it is crucial that you are a great teammate in order to be successful within our organization. We reward hard work, dedication, and self-starters. We believe that no one part is more valuable than the sum of the whole; we need everyone to achieve our goals. - University degree
- Prince 2 qualified or equivalent experience preferable
- Experience of technology projects related to financial risk
- Understanding of financial markets, financial instruments and risk practices within banks is essential
- Experience managing successful and complex technology projects
- Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills
- Capable of working effectively in a fast-paced business environment managing multiple tasks and deadlines
- Adept at building and maintaining trusted and respected relationships with clients and colleagues at all levels
- Highly proficient communication skills
- Personally engaging
- Able to positively engage with, and contribute to, the wider global team
- Willing to work occasional evenings and/or weekends to accommodate client deadlines and time-zone differences
The Location: London - United Kingdom.
About Company Statement:
S&P Global delivers essential intelligence that powers decision making. We provide the world's leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies and expertise they need to move ahead. As part of our team, you'll help solve complex challenges that equip businesses, governments and individuals with the knowledge to adapt to a changing economic landscape.
S&P Global Market Intelligence partners with customers to broaden their perspective and operate with confidence by bringing them leading data sources and technologies that embed insight in their daily work.
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Equal Opportunity Employer
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.
US Candidates Only: The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law.
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10 - Officials or Managers (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), OPRTON103.2 - Middle Management Tier II (EEO Job Group)
Job ID: 280718
Posted On: 2023-03-06
Location: London, United Kingdom |
