Risk Project Manager - Credit Risk

Deerfoot

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ref: OP863-21

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Risk Project Manager, Prince 2, PMP, Banking, PMO. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Salary - TBC

Our client who are a significant member of the Middle Eastern banking community have asked us to assist in the hire of a Risk Project Manager.

Purpose/Overview:
The Subject Matter Expert role to facilitate the smooth implementation of Programs and/or Projects. Take ownership and lead role in automation of end to end Small and Medium Enterprises - decision and credit processing across Credit Life Cycle. Work on automating work flows and credit decisions with high level of accuracy and process efficiency. To assess current processes, identify areas of improvement and ensuring implementation of relevant modifications. Small and Medium Enterprises.

Credit Life Cycle Originations, Customer Management and Remedial
- Assess current processes, work flows and Risk decisioning.
- Identify areas to streamline and automate processes, enhance risk decisioning through use of sophisticated models, methodology and tools, technology.
- Understanding of Online Delivery Channels for Small and Medium Enterprises Business and integration with Risk processes and systems.
- Recommend to senior management on global best practices for Small and Medium Enterprises Business risk decisioning.
- Ensure compliance with Banks policies and procedures.
- Lead and ownership of implementations in above areas.

Scorecards and Models
- Assist and provide recommendations to management in scorecard and model development, validations and calibrations.
- Keeps abreast of the credit risk and credit scoring models market trends and best practices, in order to implement modifications that will enhance the effectiveness of the score cards and risk models and the validity of projections
- Provides the required information and support to all relevant parties for the accurate and effective usage and implementation of the Scorecards and models
- Assists development and submission to management of analytical reports regarding the accuracy of the scorecards and predictive models and provides information and reasoning of potential inefficiencies, so as to facilitate management decision making and implementation of corrective actions
- Participates in the analysis of credit risk policies and procedures and recommends improvements, in order to identify potential gaps and propose corrective adjustment that will enhance their effectiveness

Project Management
- Act as Project Lead to implement any enhancements related to policy, processes, procedures, systems in Small and Medium Enterprises Business risk decisioning.
- Recommend project timelines, take ownership and drive achievement of project delivery schedule and approved timelines.
- Lead Requirements generation, gathering and meeting of those requirements as per expectations.
- Act as Subject Matter Expert from Risk management and provide requirements and inputs to stakeholders related to processes, systems, interfaces, integrations etc.
- Stakeholder Management, interactions and problem solving.
- Identification and constitution on project teams and management.
- Recommendations on Budgeting requirements and tracking and management of project costs.
- Provide updates to senior management. And prepare Business Cases, reports, presentations as required.
- Manage Vendor relationships for project delivery.
- Ensure compliance with Banks policies and procedures related to Project Management.

Reporting
- Assists in the preparation of timely and accurate reports to meet company and department requirements, policies and standards
- Support the Business in defining initiative concept, business requirement, vendor selection and provide support delivery through SDLC.
- Define deliver priorities from a business perspective.
- Advise & assist in the implementation of Projects within the bank.
- Evaluate business related risks, issues, changes and key dependencies across all Program/Projects monitoring their mitigation and resolution.
- Periodically review the process being followed during the IT Project Lifecycle and ensure that the chosen process is followed appropriately.
- Be responsible for Projects processes which include configuring the process before Project start up and continuously improve the process during the development effort.

Requirements

- Relevant college/university
- 4-6 years relevant experience in the SME Risk Management
- Experience in Emerging markets in GCC would be an advantage

As a prerequisite the candidate should possess the following attributes Knowledge in:
- In depth knowledge of Small and Medium Enterprises Risk decisioning and Business processes, across credit life cycle
- Providing business support in order to alien Initiative/Project with business line strategy.
- Providing highly professional skilled services and support for all Projects to meet objectives.
- Experience in Project Management - (Preferred).

Skills:
- Very good knowledge of the SME Banking sector products and business strategies.
- Very good knowledge in SME risk modelling components and techniques.
- Very good knowledge of SME systems for Work Flow, Case management, decisioning, Customer Management and Remedial actions.
- Very good knowledge of the local and international risk standards and regulations (Basel II, SAMA).
- Development and Specification of requirements - expert
- Communication - expert
- Planning and Scheduling - expert
- Business Rollout Management and experience - expert
- Risk Management - expert
- Issue Management - expert
- Change Management - expert
- Reporting and Presentation - expert
- Expert use of MS Office Tools (MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point)

About the Company

Deerfoot IT was established in 1997 as a dedicated IT recruitment consultancy. Deerfoot's core discipline is candidate search and selection covering all IT disciplines and technologies. We hold the ISO9001:2008 quality accreditation and are a corporate and specialist technology member of the R.E.C (The Recruitment & Employment Confederation), our industry's trade body.

Our client portfolio includes organisations operating in most industry sectors including: Banking, Insurance, Retail, IT Software, Govt. and Public Sector, Information Management and the Charity sector. Our client base is located throughout the UK.

Our aim is to simply achieve best practice within our chosen discipline as IT Recruiters. Ensuring we always deliver a best value service in an open, honest, responsible and ethical manner.

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