Department: Risk Management Risk Change    
Job type: Contract Role (Inside IR35 - PAYE)
 

Company overview

Nomura is an Asia-based financial services group with an integrated global network spanning over 30 countries. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Retail, Asset Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com

Department Overview:

The Risk Management Department at Nomura is broadly organised according to the main risk classes; Credit Risk Management, Market Risk Management 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.

The Risk Change function within Risk management manages regulatory and other strategic changes for various risk business functions. Working in Risk change gives a great opportunity to understand Nomura Risk businesses processes and domain. Risk Change partners with technology and business functions to support implementation of various risk solutions. Successful candidates will work closely with other global Risk Analysts, Risk middle office, Risk Technology, Global risk change team and other business functions to deliver various regulatory and strategic risk changes.  

Role description:

As part of the Risk Global Book of Work covering Regulatory, Strategic and incremental business change there is a requirement for a delivery focused programme/senior project manager with credit risk domain knowledge. The candidate would be leading a key Workstream to deliver across a number of credit 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 key Credit risk business processes to support presentation of complex topics to senior management.
• Interprets the regulatory requirements in conjunction with various Credit 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:

• Equivalent work experience of 5+ years ideally in Credit Risk management as a Project or Programme manager. 
• Knowledge of key risk metrics (e.g. PE, EEPE) and other Credit risk methodologies including Settlement Risk and Stress Loss.
• Exposure to various DevOps tools (e.g. Confluence, JIRA) to manage project deliverables
• Understanding of credit risk data flows and architecture including risk limits
• 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.
• Prior experience in credit risk system implementations and involvement in regulatory projects.
• Exposure to Credit risk systems, data and processes involved in generating credit risk regulatory capital. 
• 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

Diversity & Inclusion

Nomura is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees.

We do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender identity and gender expression, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition, please do not hesitate to contact us.