Project Manager - Risk Analytics

Job Description

Legal & General are currently looking for a Risk Analytics Project Manager who will have an important role in the delivery of the business growth and operational transformation of LGRI and the L&G Group-wide Insurance stakeholders whom the Risk Analyticsteam serves in its asset data and related actuarial and financial reporting systems and process Product Owner role.In this role you will focus on managing the Risk Analytics input and deliverables of the LGRI project to onboard and/or structure strategically important new types of assets, managing delivery to the agreed parameters of cost, timescale and quality, to enablethe organisation to achieve its desired related business growth and operational transformation outcomes.Principal Accountabilities

1. Manage the delivery of the assigned transformation and change initiatives using L&G approved project management and governance techniques used for resource and deliverable planning, budgeting and forecasting, risk, issue and dependency management so thatthese initiatives occur within the agreed budget, timescale and quality parameters and any critical problems that could impact this are escalated, evaluated, owned and resolved at the earliest opportunity to avoid or minimise their impacts on the desired benefitsrealisation.
2. Ensure adherence to and compliance with the L&G Internal Model and other relevant Group and LGRI project, change and risk management governance standards and policies in the delivery of the assigned initiatives, projects, these controls expected to helpassure the project benefits realisation.
3. Deliver effective and timely communication and reporting to all interested parties, key stakeholders to support effective decision-making and manage the smooth and integrated delivery of the Risk Analytics change portfolio and outcomes into the wider business.
4. Ensure the quality of the deliverables produced on the assigned initiatives and projects and related releases of Risk Analytics owned systems and processes by facilitating appropriate business acceptance testing and sign-off, ensuring that functional andnon-functional testing and code reviews are conducted at all relevant stages of the systems development lifecycle, and any exceptions to the agreed acceptance criteria are identified to stakeholders.
5. Ensure that Risk Analytics change initiatives and projects have lessons learned captured both regularly throughout the delivery timelines and at release/project closure to provide timely feedback that can be used on this and other relevant projects andensure that the Risk Analytics initiatives and projects are formally closed so that their benefits realisation monitoring is initiated.
6. Ensure new stakeholder change and transformation requests can be met in future years by assisting, as requested, in the collation of the Risk Analytics Product Line Change Portfolio each year, including the prioritisation and estimation of the deliveryeffort/costs of the initiatives within it, and the follow-on Risk Analytics project planning, scheduling, resource controlling and reporting activities.
7. Support the Risk Analytics Programme Manager in the creation and provision of other change related audit and governance deliverables as requested to ensure Risk Analytics ongoing complies with various L&G change governance and compliance requests.

Requirements

• Any of APMG Prince 2 Practitioner, Association of Project Managers (AMP) - mandatory. Agile PM / Scrum Master - Mandatory; SAFe agilest - desirable but not essential.
• ISTQB Test Manager, PROSCI and other recognised Change certifications, Business Analysis - eg BCS Diploma in Business Analysis - all desirable but not essential.
• Strong background of working and delivering IT enabled business owned projects in Insurance Life, Pensions, Annuities, Asset & Liability Management and / or Investments and of working in Actuarial / quant risk management and Insurance related financialreporting environments (including Solvency II, IFRS, ALM).
• Good awareness and understanding of typical Insurance products, types of assets held, Insurance financial reporting regulations, processes and metrics used to value and manage Insurance liabilities and assets; and within this knowledge of asset and assetmodelling related BAU operations and the necessary attitude towards Live Production systems.
• Good awareness and understanding of the IT technologies and delivery techniques used to build and implement the financial and analytical modelling systems and processes used by actuaries, quantitative financial engineers in Insurance organisations.
• Strong knowledge of software development practices, principles with good experience of delivering projects according to different project and SDLC approaches, including Agile, SaFe, plus of adapting the project / delivery management techniques used to ensurea focus on delivering outcomes.
• Knowledge and experience of delivering projects that include business process and business operating model re-design and roll-out.
• Excellent communications, collaboration, interpersonal and presentation skills to influence internal and external stakeholders both in the business and technology teams, including executive managers and 3rd party vendors.
• Outstanding project management experience of working with mixed teams made up of Business (investment, asset management, actuarial, accounting, quant) stakeholders and SMEs, Change and IT delivery professionals (Project Managers, Test Managers / BusinessAnalysts, developers) to successfully deliver financial system and operational process change.

Additional Information

• Initially a temporary contract for 34 weeks till year end, with a view to extend subject to business requirements.
• Day rate of up to £800 (dependent on experience, inside of IR35 and uplifted rate of 18.55% will apply if going via an Umbrella company).
• This will be a hybrid role with time split between working from home and the L&G office in London (One Coleman Street).