Project Leader to Risk Models - Strategy & MDP Execution

Nordea; Województwo mazowieckie; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Nordea is seeking a project manager/leader to join the Risk Models Data and Strategy team, driving data improvement projects and coordinating internal efforts to support development and implementation of risk models across Nordea. The role covers end-to-end project initiation, maturation and execution, coordinating with experts and data consumers across the bank, with a base in Finland, Poland or Sweden.

You will engage with stakeholders at all levels, manage risks, and contribute to a culture

Qualifications

• Experience in financial services or risk domains from a business perspective.
• Proven ability to drive cross-department projects and workstreams.
• Strong analytical, presentation and coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan, scope, structure and drive data-related projects end-to-end.
• Coordinate with stakeholders and present plans to steering committees.
• Deliver high-quality work by leveraging subject-matter experts and problem-solving.
• Escalate issues, log outcomes, and maintain traceability throughout delivery.
• Identify and manage risks and interdependencies along the execution lifecycle.

Skills

Project management

Data coordination

Stakeholder management

Risk domain knowledge

Communication

Job description

We are looking for a project manager/leader to join the Risk Models Strategy & MDP Execution team in Risk Models Data and Strategy, holding key responsibilities in coordinating data improvement projects and drive internal coordination supporting the development and implementation of internal risk models across the bank.

Your responsibilities will encompass various activities throughout the end-2-end scope of project initiation, maturation & execution by sparring & coordinating with key experts and data consumers across the business.

About Our Team

Our role – in Risk Models Data & Strategy, Strategy & MDP Execution – is to lead complex regulatory-based changes and initiatives to secure deliveries according to planned timelines and ensure Nordea’s place as the leading Nordic bank.

This is an opportunity for you to join a highly professional and dedicated team of 7, become part of a large organization and gain a broad network across the bank, in all our countries. You will get a unique chance to impact Nordea’s risk management by engaging in an exciting job with excellent opportunities for personal and professional development with a high visibility to the rest of the organization.

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

Main responsibilities in this role:

• Independently plan, scope, structure and drive data related projects and/or play a key role in coordinating cross-departmental strategy
• Manage stakeholders on all organizational levels effectively and confident in presenting plans, progress and results to Steering Committees, Programme Forums and other wider audiences.
• Deliver well-structured, high-quality work through utilizing subject matter experts, creative problem-solving, understanding stakeholder needs and dependencies, as well as strong facilitation skills to remove obstacles
• Act as first line of escalation and be a natural owner of stakeholder dialogues, ensuring that outcomes are logged, tracked and followed-up upon.
• Ensure risks and interdependencies are identified, reported, owned and managed throughout the execution lifecycle as well as clarifying and standardizing procedures across the value chain

You’ll join a strategically important area getting all the support needed to succeed. The role is based in Finland, Poland, or Sweden.

Who You Are

We are seeking an individual with the following qualifications:

• Experience with the financial sector or similar, especially within the credit risk domain from a business perspective. Alternatively you have solid credentials in driving projects and workstreams.
• Ambitious, self-driven and structured professional comfortable with setting the stage in front of large audiences
• Analytical skills and ability to deal with complex issues and bring problem-solving to the front
• Proactive ability to interact with key stakeholders throughout the value chain and navigate through complexity and ensure timely and precise deliveries
• Great communication, presentation and facilitation skills
• Being a motivated person to work with and projecting it across projects

What We Offer

People come here when they want to get somewhere. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.

Only for candidates in Finland:

A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.

Only for candidates in Sweden:

For union information, please contact Finansförbundet at [e-mail] or SACO at [e-mail].

Only for candidates in Poland:

Please include permit for processing personal data in CV as following:

In accordance with art. 6 (1) a and b. Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) hereinafter ‘GDPR’. I agree to have: my personal data, education and employment history proceeded for the purposes of current and future recruitment processes in Nordea Bank Abp.

The administrator of your personal data is: Nordea Bank Abp operating in Poland through its Branch, address: Aleja Edwarda Rydza Śmiglego 20, 93-281 Łodź. Your personal data will be processed for the recruitment processes in Nordea Bank Abp. You have a right to access your personal data, right to rectify and right to delete. Disclosing the personal data in the scope specified by the provisions of Polish Labour Code from 26 June 1974 and executive acts are mandatory. Providing personal data is necessary to conduct the recruitment processes. The request for the deletion of your personal data means resignation from further participation in recruitment processes and causes the immediate removal of your application. Detailed information concerning processing of your personal data can be found at: https://www.nordea.com/en/doc/nordea-privacy-policy-for-applicants.pdf

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