Job Title: IFO-Infrastructure Others
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
Division overview:
India Change is one of the unique cross functional, cross divisional and cross regional teams that works on transformation and change initiatives for Nomura Wholesale business units across the world. We are a fungible pool of professionals from diverse background who are key drivers of the firm’s priority projects and programs. We are keen to regularly invest in our team’s upskilling of capabilities.
Role description:
- Apply a structured methodology and lead change management activities.
- Develop program strategies and plans, including stakeholder assessment, leadership alignment, organization transition, change readiness, capability transfer, and end-user training.
- Defining the program governance (controls)
- Support the design, development, delivery, and management of communications.
- Oversee team execution in accordance with project plans, tools, and methods, and support resource planning and acquisition.
- Develop short and long-term goals, KPIs, and objectives, and develop and execute against operational plan.
- Managing risks and issues and taking corrective measurements
- Lead and evaluate project managers and other staff.
- Develop and control deadlines, budgets and activities.
- Lead/facilitate meetings with stakeholders to ensure an understanding of the requirements, and jointly develop a change adoption plan.
- Must have ability to work with the team and train people on various subjects, structure the project governance model and work together with regional counterparts to devise induction framework for all the resources entering the project.
- Resolve projects’ higher scope issues.
Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:
- Minimum 12+ years of experience in consulting or handling change programs within investment banking.
- Proven experience as a Program Manager
- CA / MBA from top Tier institutes / CFA / FRM and nice to have Prince 2 or equivalent PMI certification.
- Thorough understanding of project/program management techniques and methods (Agile and Waterfall)
- Excellent Knowledge of performance evaluation and change management principles with outstanding leadership and organizational skills
- Experience as Techno-Functional Business Analyst / Product owner in managing a product in the Capital market domain
- Extensive knowledge in Regulatory Reporting of OTC derivatives across different regulations: Dodd-Frank (CFTC), Canadian Regulations, EMIR (ESMA) for asset classes Interest Rate, Credit, Commodity, Equity, and FX
- Experience in front to back testing cycle (i.e.developing test plans, test scenarios, test cases based on functional specifications, defect management including tracking and its reporting) for reg reporting Projects. Drafting and owning Go-live runbooks
- Experience in global rewrite programme e.g. CFTC, EMIR or JFSA
- Effective communication skills to be able to communicate at all levels of the organization.
- Strong conflict management/resolution skills
- Sound understanding of financials products, Trade lifecycle and asset classes.
- Diligence and high-quality standards of documentation, processes and control environment.
- Detailed knowledge of all Microsoft Office products, i.e. Word, Excel, Power Point, Project and Visio
- Excellent Communication, Organization and Documentation Skills
- Flexibility (openness to change) – adapts effectively to changing plans, domains and priorities; Is open and flexible when faced with changing project constraints.
Deals comfortably with ambiguity – stays on target to complete goals regardless of obstacles or adverse circumstances.