Job Title:  IFO-Infrastructure Others

Business Unit Overview
International Change is a cross functional and cross regional team which services transformation and change
for the all the Nomura business units globally. The department consists of a fungible pool of resources from
different backgrounds who are key drivers of firms’ priority projects and programs. There is a constant effort
on investing within the team’s upskilling and upgrading of capabilities.
Within International Change, the Risk Change team is involved in supporting Risk Management and Risk
Middle Office teams in implementing various change and regulatory initiatives. Team is responsible for
providing consulting, business analysis, testing and project management capabilities on strategic system
enhancement/migration projects or regulatory change projects such as BCBS 239, Basel III, FRTB etc.
 

Role description
 Business Analyst with 8 to 12 years of relevant experience in the Risk domain, particularly in Stress
Testing, Trading Wind Down (TWD), Counterparty Credit Risk and Market Risk.
 The person is expected to play a lead role for the Stress Testing and TWD projects within International
Change and work with local and regional stakeholders to manage the book of work.
 Understand the Nomura Risk Change programme and maintain a dependable team of skilled BAs to be
assigned to various projects within it.
 Independently manage medium to large projects through the lifecycle and use BA tools proficiently
(business requirement documents, functional specifications, data matrix, Work Flow Diagrams etc.)
 Run test management processes for medium to large scale projects (Test Strategy/Approach
documentation, managing User Acceptance Testing, building test plans and test scenarios, building
implementation plans.)
 Assist our stakeholder businesses with their tactical/strategic solution requirements, services and/or
program.
 Must be able to work with Technology, Risk Management, Risk Middle Office, and Front Office to identify
and maximize opportunities that help in delivery of projects and to improve product, service and program
business processes.
 Must have the ability to work with a team and train people on various subjects, structure the project
governance model and also work together with regional counterparts to devise induction framework for
all the resources entering into the project.
 Prepare project reports (weekly project update, monthly status update, highlighting risks, resource
utilization, analyses trends, recommends adjustments that address or capitalize on these changes.)
 The role requires full adherence to the work from office roster for the team.

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required
 Strong understanding of capital market products and derivatives across asset classes
 Good knowledge of Stress Testing across different Risk scenarios, Counterparty Credit Risk domain with
project experience in areas like computation of risk measures/exposures (EAD, PE, PFE, EEPE, LEQ,
VaR, ES etc.), management of risk limits, risk reporting etc.
 Skilled in performing data analysis and understanding data models for computation of risk measures
 Good understanding of the Basel norms, particularly the capital requirements for Market, Credit and CVA
risks
 Ability to operate in both agile and waterfall style project methodologies and have an understanding of
deliverables required for each methodology
 Attention to detail and high quality standards of documentation, processes and control environment
 Experience in the full E2E systems delivery lifecycle (SDLC)
 Detailed knowledge of all Microsoft Office products, i.e. Word, Excel, Power Point, Project and Visio
 Good educational pedigree and domain certifications (MBA, FRM, CFA, CQF etc.)
 Proficiency in database, virtualization and BI solutions – SQL, Python, Dremio, PowerBI, Alteryx,
Tableau etc.
 Excellent communication, organization, prioritisation and documentation skills
 Flexibility – 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
 Rigorous follow ups through on all commitments to achieve results
 Excellent and demonstrable understanding of “best practice” approaches to functional testing especially
User Acceptance Testing.
 Ability to identify any inefficiencies in processes and suggest ideas for automation and/or operating
model changes.