Company overview
Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment 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 Chief Data Office at Nomura AEJ bank is responsible for managing and utilizing data to support business decisions, operations, and strategies across the organization. The department is focused on driving data governance, data quality, data integration, and data analytics initiatives. With a team of experienced professionals, the Chief Data Office aims to provide timely, accurate, and actionable data to internal stakeholders, while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. By leveraging advanced technologies and innovative solutions, the Chief Data Office is committed to delivering value-added services that enable Nomura AEJ bank to achieve its objectives and enhance its competitive position in the market
Job Purpose:
Drive development of analytics products for data and digital transformation across Nomura Group.
Role Description :
Job Responsibilities:
- Leader to create Nomura’s Information & Analytics Products. Proven experience in successfully delivering information & analytics products across global organizations with various levels of business analytics maturity, and the ability engage with analytics leaders of Nomura’s businesses to embed state-of-the-art analytics informed decision making.
- Thought leader in enabling data architecture and delivery of data-analytics platforms – on-premise, cloud and hybrid
- Exceptional information & analytics experience & technical skills. State-of-the-art expertise across, data/information preparation, data insight & visualization using BI (or similar tools), and advanced data prediction using AI, ML, DL, etc.
- Strong data management experience & technical skills. State-of-the-art expertise in data management to ensure the analytics products are appropriate/ethical and well-controlled.
- Information & analytics visionary. Envisage and deliver leading edge information & analytics products to Nomura’s businesses, strategically partnering both internally and externally to deliver best in class products.
- Be a trusted partner. Shape the information & analytics agenda at Nomura, and work with all of Nomura’s businesses in laying out their information & analytics adoption roadmaps.
- Create a strong delivery team. Lead, mentor and grow a global team of information & analytics experts capable of transforming Nomura.
Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:
- Masters in quantitative fields (Computer Science, Statistics or similar) or at least a 4-year Bachelor’s degree in quantitative fields with minimum of 10 years of relevant data experience.
- Preferred experience in Financial Services and Other adjacent Consumer centric business
- Strong understanding of fundamental data concepts (data modelling, data pipelines, data quality, lineage etc.) and data warehousing methodologies. Conversant with data architecture paradigms
- Strong cloud engineering skills with ability to drive solution design - Experience with AWS data platforms like Redshift, EMR, RDS, Athena and Glue or similar
- Experience with Snowflake or similar tools with ability to drive design and data model discussions, hybrid data architecture
- Experienced with Data-Ops, ML-Ops processes, platforms and methodologies
- High acumen to identify business scenarios and use data and analytics to solve and drive business KPIs.
- Ensure platform adoption and work with respective teams for data onboarding to the platform and upkeep of the same
- Understanding of core business functions to apply analytics in specific areas and drive change management.
- Clear understanding of value driven by analytics interventions and able to drive decision making.
- Familiar with core business functions and associated data roles and responsibilities (owner, steward, custodian, consumer) to design and steer compliance with data governance requirements.
- Familiar with data-driven approach and use of analytics for risk management and controls monitoring for data management framework compliance and enhancements.
- Be able to connect and manage relationship with C-Suite/senior executives to drive data framework compliance and plan change management processes wherever necessary.
- Understand and utilize design thinking in executing projects.
- Train and mentor teams and internal business units and stakeholders and data management framework requirements, improvements and operationalization.
- Understand agile ways of working, and able to manage and deliver multiple projects effectively. Can plan, requirements and dependencies; manage complex analysis and enable necessary reporting.
- Ability to make decisions independently and in line with corporate philosophy, professional ethics, compliance, risk management and Nomura code of conduct.
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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