Credit Suisse - Vice President - Impairment Program - PMO

Department:

At Finance Change, we work across the entire CFO division to ensure that we execute the strategic design and implementation of any major changes to our processes and systems.

In partnership with our key partners, we work to build state of the art business solutions using our deep functional expertise.

We seek to deliver strategic initiatives using leading project management and business analysis methodologies as we pursue our goal of protecting and improving shareholder value through optimizing the use of our financial resources.

We Offer:

Project:

Impairment Program implements the new impairment mentorship for credit losses mandated by FASB for accrual accounted financial assets and off-balance sheet credit exposures resulting in potentially increased and more volatile valuation allowances compared to current FAS5 US GAAP and CH_GAAP. It requires measurement of credit losses using a lifetime, forward-looking expected credit loss model instead of the existing incurred loss model.

We Offer :

- Work as a senior PMO within the project reporting into the Program Manager

- Responsible to provide end to end PMO services to the Impairment program globally across Change, IT and business work streams.

- Drive the program governance aligned with the central CS Program Management Framework and Standards.

- Handle and track RAID's, achievements and other daily PMO deliverables.

- Extensive interactions with Business (Risk and Finance work streams) and IT counterparts in support to the key program governance forums like the STC, Sounding Board, Change Control Board etc.

- Continuous support and follow up to closure on actions from Internal Audit/ Risk Monitoring findings and feedback

- Drive Business Change Readiness activities and Liaison with business users for acceptance of any governance/PMO deliverables

- Understand the overall objectives and architectural aspects of the program and to ensure convergence of the project outcome / design to defined objectives

- Project Management activities (e.g. Prepare as well as track the deliverable roadmap while handling the change in scope and risk /issues that arise along the journey, present project status to various audience, positive relationship building, strong communication skills)

You Offer

- Hands on experience of governance set-up and management with full ownership.

- Handle project/program partners and ensure strict adherence of timelines around their requests and services provided.

- Advanced knowledge and experience as project manager, and strong problem-solving capabilities

- Excellent conceptual and analytical skills

- Basic understanding of accounting or financial/regulatory requirements

- Excellent communication and presentation skills and highly client oriented attitude

- Self-motivation, dedicated, flexibility, and solution oriented approach

- Excellent ability to work collaboratively across functions and cultures in a global environment

- Solid MS-Office knowledge

- PMP or Prince 2 certifications preferred but not mandatory.

- An open, communicative personality