Project Manager/Business Analyst - Risk ChangeAssociate / Senior Associate

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.

Within CTO, the Risk Change team supports Risk Management and Risk Middle Office teams in implementing various change and regulatory initiatives. The team provides consulting, business analysis, testing and project management capabilities on strategic system enhancement/migration projects and regulatory change projects such as BCBS 239, Basel III, FRTB etc.

As part of the Risk Global Book of Work covering Regulatory, Strategic and incremental business change, this role requires a delivery-focused hybrid Project Manager/Business Analyst with Credit/Market Risk domain knowledge. The successful candidate will work on one or more projects within the Risk Management Programme, serving as a bridge between Tokyo/overseas business users and global Risk Change programs.

Work with the Programme/Project Manager to agree project scope with senior stakeholders and manage the project scope throughout the project lifecycle for assigned workstreams

Support the management of resources that form part of the delivery team, incorporating all resources and their activities into clearly stated, defendable plans for the project(s)

Assist in defining success criteria for each stage of the project and ensure successful completion of all tasks within the project plan on time and within budget

Understand and monitor cross-project dependencies that may impact project delivery

Ensure delivery of projects is in accordance with Nomura's project management governance protocols and standards

Provide timely reporting of project status, issues, and risks to the Programme/Project Manager and governance forums as appropriate

Escalate issues to the Programme/Project Manager and follow the appropriate governance structure of the programme

Utilize and adapt delivery methodologies to suit the projects and stakeholders throughout the lifecycle of the project

Support retrospective reviews to improve delivery quality and cadence within the project and wider organisation

Proficient in the use of various tools (e.g. MS Project, Confluence, JIRA) to manage project deliverables

Facilitate the gathering of business requirements, detailing current and best fit future state requirements for tactical and strategic solutions, balancing speed to market, cost and benefit delivered

Work with key stakeholders (business, quants and Risk IT) to ensure all requirements surrounding the end-to-end process are clearly understood and appropriate, clear solutions are designed, documented and implemented

Translate requirements into functional/non-functional requirements and collaborate with development teams to produce technical design. Validate requirements through investigating data sources

Work with business users, business analysts (BAs), and IT to ensure requirements are correctly captured, understood and delivered in line with expectations

Act as business gatekeeper and single point of contact with development teams during the build phase. Control issues being raised to IT and work with business to ensure issues are appropriately prioritised and fully understood globally

Support development "best practice" analysis documentation standards to clearly define and communicate business requirements and design & implementation of the most appropriate solutions

Coordinate User Acceptance Testing and interact with different business units throughout SDLC

Proven experience facilitating the elicitation of requirements from end users and translating them to user, functional and non-functional requirements for Development Teams

Spearhead assigned tasks with ability to influence key decision makers, peer groups and functions outside direct control

Work and collaborate across a broad range of stakeholders at various levels of seniority and experience

Support communications between Tokyo/overseas business users and global Risk Change programs including escalation of issues and articulation of regional requirements

Present complex topics to senior management with clarity and confidence, demonstrating good understanding of key Credit/Market risk business processes

Interpret regulatory requirements (e.g., BASEL, BCBS 239, Basel III, FRTB) in conjunction with various Credit/Market risk stakeholders to manage scoping of business requirements and delivery

Understand front-to-back risk business processes allowing for optimal requirements gathering and synergies between projects

Support definition of Testing approach, test plan and test coordination for risk-related deliverables