Nomura Overview
Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated 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, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking), and Investment Management. 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, Operational Risk Management and New Products/Business. 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.
Role Description:
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 within the Market Risk workstream and will work very 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.
As part of the Market Risk global Book of Work covering both regulatory, Strategic and incremental business change, the Change Manager, Market Risk would be supporting programme managers and other business analysts in market risk programme to deliver across a number of market risk initiatives.
Other responsibilities:
- Delivering business analysis tasks and supporting programme management in senior management reporting about status and key issues.
- Writing concise business requirements including business processes, data analysis, reviewing & challenging IT design, functional testing, stakeholder management, addressing user and senior management queries.
- Ensure adherence to project governance and control processes around project delivery, timely reporting of project status, issues, risks to various management team and governance forum as appropriate.
- Leverage strong foundation of various market risk concepts to manage delivery of business mandatory market risk related changes.
- Interprets the regulatory requirements in conjunction with various Market risk stakeholders to manage scoping of business requirements and delivery
- Act as business gatekeeper to control issues being raised to IT and work with the business and project management to ensure issues are raised appropriately and are fully understood/agreed globally.
- Good team player who would be required to work closely with the global business, IT, BAs, QA and development team throughout project lifecycle.
- Work with lead PMs to organise and prioritise work for the global team within deadlines set and escalate as required.
Requirements:
- A Degree from an accredited University.
- Minimum 4 years’ experience in Market Risk management as a Business Analyst or Business User with experience in Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange trading products.
- Experience in Market Risk domain in areas like computation of risk measures (VaR, IRC, ES etc.), management of risk limits, and risk reporting.
- Experience in data analysis and have the ability to summarise the pattern in the data by querying/analysing large amount data using various tools including SQL.
- Experience with Basel norms, particularly FRTB and Basel 2.5 standards
- Prior experience in market risk system implementations and involvement in regulatory projects.
- Good communication skills and understanding of key Market risk business processes to support presentation of complex topics to senior management.
- High level understanding project management concepts and approach.
- Track record of managing requirements, delivery and testing in a fast-paced environment
- Strong attention to detail, accuracy and timeliness of delivery.
- Some 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, Power Point & Visio.
Diversity Statement
Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities, and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation.
DISCLAIMER: This Job Description is for reference only, and whilst this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, it is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. The management reserves the right to revise the job and may, at his or her discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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