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About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

10

Department overview:

Financial Risk Analytics (FRA) delivers enterprise risk solutions to some of the largest firms in the financial services industry, and is part of S&P Global, a dynamic entrepreneurial company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

FRA is currently investing in their technology platform to develop a number of new revenue generating products, leveraging open source and big data technologies. These include visualisation, risk aggregation and smart data initiatives that address new data, risk and regulatory requirements and are highly visible and strategic within the organisation. FRA also uses successful conventional technologies such as distributed computing based on grids, large data formats such as HDF5, and message queue for both batch and real-time what-if type calculations.

These initiatives are using best of breed technologies, such as Hadoop, Spark, HDFS, HBase, Cassandra along with in-house developed technologies, and the successful candidate will be working in a fast paced, dynamic team environment, building commercial products which are at the heart of the business.

The Client Onboarding, Integration and Support Services team is responsible for delivering our solutions to our clients, from pre-sales through go-live.

Position summary

This position is for an Associate Director level Tokyo-based Business Senior Consultant running FRA client implementation projects across APAC, with a focus on Japan. In addition to the detailed job description below, client relationship management is an important requirement of the role. Ensuring a high level of satisfaction by effective management of client needs is a core part of project management in FRA.

Duties & accountabilities

• Manage a portfolio of FRA prospects and clients in managing and controlling a wide variety of project activities

• Prepare and execute on senior stakeholder reporting and communication needs

• Effectively communicate overall project status to internal and external stakeholders

• Balance the resourcing schedule for in-progress and planned project work

• Provide an ongoing risk management capability for the business

• Prepare and maintain business case and project initiation materials, including the ongoing project pipeline

• Capture and consolidate project metrics, and implement and leverage KPIs across the group, to assist in ongoing planning and continuous improvement

• Prioritise tasks and effectively manage day to day issues

• Coordinate project and workflow management with financial engineering, design, development and QA teams

• Support and review the work of other project managers within FRA, in applying best practice and standardized process where appropriate

• Support and provide holiday cover for other project managers

• Be flexible in dealing with large waterfall, agile, and RAID deliveries as required by the needs of the project in question

• Co-ordinate release window activity between various impacted groups and stakeholders

• Support FRA sales colleagues through the sales process as required

• Includes taking complete ownership of the steps that needs to be taken to deliver daily results to clients

• Quality check input and output data

• Troubleshoot errors and work with internal groups to provide resolution

• Respond to client requests by providing detailed analysis and feedback

• Perform testing to ensure the product in UAT, pre-prod environment emulate the same design setup in the production environment as well

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Our Purpose:

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Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

Our People:

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Benefits:

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• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

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At S&P Global, we believe diversity fuels creative insights, equity unlocks opportunity, and inclusion drives growth and innovation – Powering Global Markets. Our commitment centers on our global workforce, ensuring that our people are empowered to bring their whole selves to work. It doesn’t stop there, we strive to better reflect and serve the communities in which we live and work, and advocate for greater opportunity for all.

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S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

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10 - Officials or Managers (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), OPRTON103.1 - Middle Management Tier I (EEO Job Group)

Job ID: 305599

Posted On: 2024-09-06

Location: Tokyo, Japan