Financial Risk Technical Analyst
City of London
Hybrid (3/2 split)
Contract
£920 per day (via Umbrella)
cer Financial are working alongside an international bank who are based in the City of London. They are seeking a Financial Risk Technical Analyst to work with them on a contract.
The responsibilities of a Financial Risk Technical Analyst will include:
- Scoping and shaping new initiative requests from the FinReg and other Regulatory Reporting functions.
- Defining, prioritising, and grooming product backlogs based on these initiatives in accordance with the SMBC Agile delivery methodology.
- Business and technical analysis, solutions design, epic, and user story definitions.
- Estimating, scheduling, and managing epics and user story delivery in conjunction with the bank and developers, architects, and QA specialists as well as external vendors.
- Planning and executing sprints (scrum master) and conducting Agile ceremonies.
- Critically assess the design for solutions that meet the regulatory imperatives and ensure the resilience of the supporting infrastructure has been fully tested.
- Ensuring solution delivery is on time and budget, to the requisite quality and appropriate operational risk mitigation.
- Working proactively to mitigate delivery risk including timely escalations to the FinReg IT Platforms Lead.
- RAID log and Prod issues log management and delivery reporting.
- Technical and business domain mentoring of other staff.
- Vendor and contract management.
- Ensure governed transition of Service ownership for live systems, prod issues change management and deployment.
The successful Financial Risk Technical Analyst will have:
- 10+ years of experience in a similar technology delivery role in Commercial, Merchant and Investment Banking Dealing with Enterprise Risk Governance, Risk and Regulatory Compliance (GRC) in the Risk & Finance domains.
- Extensive knowledge in Credit, Market, Liquidity Risk methodologies, analytics, and reporting.
- Experience in this domain specific technology and data architectures leveraging modern tools and data sourcing, transformation, analytics, and reporting technologies.
- Experience in implementing in-house and vendor solutions on premise and on cloud including SaaS solutions that meet user requirements and mitigate operational risks.
- Experience in system integration.
- Working knowledge of Agile Scrum methodology and ability to manage Agile teams.
- Knowledge of data mining and analytics application an (SAS, SQL, Python) and visualisation tool such as (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik)
- Understanding of requirements under Basel II, III, IV as well as well as best practices for Data Governance and management.