Credit Risk Project Manager - New York, NY/On-Site

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of Credit Risk technology initiatives from planning through implementation.
• Define project scope, objectives, timelines, and success criteria in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Develop and manage project plans, milestones, and deliverables across business and IT teams.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Act as the primary interface between business stakeholders, technology teams, and vendors.
• Facilitate communication across risk, IT, data, and reporting teams.
• Conduct steering committee meetings, status reporting, and stakeholder updates.
• Translate business requirements into functional and technical deliverables.
• Cook up coordination with architects, developers, QA teams, and data engineers to ensure alignment.
• Oversee integration of risk systems, data platforms, and reporting tools.
• Establish project governance, reporting frameworks, and escalation processes.
• Identify project risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
• Ensure adherence to internal controls, regulatory expectations, and organizational standards.
• Drive Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery frameworks as appropriate.
• Track KPIs, manage resource allocation, and maintain delivery transparency.
• Promote best practices in project management, documentation, and release planning.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Information Technology, or related field.
• 8–12+ years of experience in project management within financial services or banking.
• Demonstrated experience delivering projects in Credit Risk or Risk Technology environments.
• Strong understanding of functional workflows and IT systems used in risk platforms.
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional teams across business and technology units.
• Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder technology projects.