Description:
Divisional Overview:
The Chief Transformation Office (CTO) function is responsible for the delivery of change across the Nomura Group, working closely with the other Chief Corporate Officers in support of the business divisions to ensure we meet our regulatory and strategic long-term goals. Working in Risk transformation gives a great opportunity to understand Nomura Risk businesses, processes and domain. The International Change team partners with business and technology functions to support implementation of various risk solutions. Successful candidates will work closely with other global Risk Officers, Analysts, Risk middle office, Risk Technology, Global Risk Transformation teams and other business functions to deliver various regulatory and strategic risk initiatives.
Business Overview:
The Risk Management Department at Nomura is broadly organised according to the main risk classes; Credit Risk Management, Market Risk Management, Model Risk and Portfolio Risk.
The Risk Management team works to provide a firm wide capital management framework, which takes into account the availability and cost of capital, its effective utilization within and across business lines and the overall capital adequacy of the firm. Risk Management's key activities include ensuring transparency and effectively managing market, credit, liquidity, concentration and tail risk within the risk appetite of the firm and monitoring the effectiveness of capital utilization through the use of limit structures, with an emphasis on stress testing and risk adjusted returns on capital efficiency measures.
What We Offer:
- We support employee wellbeing by ensuring a sense of purpose and belonging.
- We offer a comprehensive range of wellbeing services which allows employees to get access to the assistance they need at any point in their wellbeing journey.
- Our bespoke benefits support employees and their family’s holistic wellbeing and are inclusive of diverse identities and family structures.
Position Specifications:
Bachelor's -Finance, Business, Engineering, etc.
Role & Responsibilities:
This is an exciting opportunity for a project manager within the International Change function to help deliver regulatory and strategic project work for Climate Risk & ESG and the wider Risk agenda (Credit and Market Risk initiatives). The ideal candidate will be experienced in project management and have a good overall knowledge of risk management for a broker-dealer investment bank (Climate Risk & ESG Metrics knowledge highly desirable). The candidate would be supporting a key workstream to deliver across a number of risk initiatives.
- Agreeing project scope with senior stakeholders and managing the project scope throughout the project lifecycle.
- Managing all resources that form part of the delivery team for the project(s), incorporating all resources and their activities into clearly stated defendable plan for the project(s). Supporting and mentoring team members to ensure delivery.
- Clearly defining success criteria for each stage of the project and ensuring successful completion of all tasks within the project plan on time and within budget. The overall project will be measured by adherence to delivering against a set of pre-agreed KPIs.
- Understanding and monitoring cross-project dependencies that may impact project delivery.
- Ensuring delivery of projects is in accordance with Nomura's project management governance protocols and standards.
- Effective stakeholder management relating to the project, ensuring through both day-to-day management, and in governance, that project status clearly articulated and timely in its delivery.
- Timely reporting of project status, issues, risks to various management team and governance forum as appropriate. Including issue escalation and resolution with portfolio lead and senior management
- Understanding the front to back risk business processes allowing for optimal requirements gathering and synergies between projects.
- Good communication skills and understanding of both ESG/Sustainability and key Credit & Market Risk business processes to support presentation of complex topics to senior management.
- Interprets the regulatory requirements in conjunction with various Credit & Market Risk stakeholders to manage scoping of business requirements and delivery.
- Act as business gate keeper, control issues being raised to IT and work with the business to ensure issues are raised appropriately and are fully understood/agreed globally.
- Works with BAs to assists IT teams with an understanding of requirements and functional requirements specification.
- Good team player who would be required to work closely with the global business, IT, BAs, QA and development team throughout project lifecycle.
Desired Skills and Experience:
- Knowledge of ESG/sustainability regulations and the impact to financial services
- Equivalent work experience ideally in Credit &/or Market Risk management as a Project manager.
- Exposure to various tools (e.g. Confluence, JIRA) to manage project deliverables
- Ability to lead dedicated workstreams and manage multiple deliveries end to end concurrently
- Self-starter with excellent presentational, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate at a range of levels within the organisation.
- Strong attention to detail, accuracy and timeliness of delivery.
- Experience in defining Testing approach, test plan and test co-ordination.
- Proven experience facilitating the elicitation of requirements from end users and translating them to user, functional and non-functional requirements for Development Teams. Work with development teams (IT) to clarify that design meets requirements.
- Detailed knowledge of all Microsoft Office products, i.e. Word, Excel, Project & Power Point
- Management of business analysis and project manager resources to deliver multiple projects/workstreams
Mind Set:
- 5-8 years equivalent work experience in Credit and/or Market Risk management as Project Manager
- Understanding of front-to-back risk business processes
- Knowledge of risk management for broker-dealer investment bank
- Understanding of ESG/sustainability regulations and impact to financial services
- Climate Risk & ESG Metrics knowledge
- Deep understanding of Credit & Market Risk business processes
- Experience with regulatory frameworks (TCFD, SFDR, EU Taxonomy)
- Carbon accounting knowledge
Detailed knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint)
- Experience with project management tools (Confluence, JIRA)
- Proven experience in requirements elicitation and translation to functional specifications
- Experience defining testing approach, test plans, and test coordination
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent deliveries end-to-end
- Project management certifications (PMP, PRINCE2)
- ESG/Sustainability certifications
- Experience with risk management systems and platforms
- Knowledge of Agile/Waterfall methodologies
Nomura Leadership Behaviours:
Exploring Insights & Vision
Comprehensively analyse the nature
of the problems we face and set our
focus toward the future vision
- Gather Intelligence
- Create a vision
- Identify an issue
Making Strategic Decisions
Analyse options and feasibility to resolve issues, in making
judgments and recommendations
- Identify countermeasures
- Assess feasibility
- Make a judgment
Inspiring Entrepreneurship in People
Promotes the vision and goals to others in such a way that inspires commitment and independent contributions
Elevating Organizational Capacity
Maximize organizational productivity through leadership development and
engagement
- Have an ownership in own development
- Support other‘s growth
- Encourage organizational growth
Respect diverse perspectives and
promote psychological safety
and the creation of a risk culture
- Foster psychological
safety
- Encourage the active
participation of all talent
- Foster a risk culture
We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees. We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, carer’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age.
- Applying for this role does not amount to a job offer or create an obligation on Nomura to provide a job offer. The expression "Nomura" refers to Nomura Services India Private Limited together with its affiliates.
- The benefits are subject to change and will be in accordance with Company’s policies as may be applicable from time to time).
