Job Title:  Principal PM / BA

Department overview:

Wholesale Data Services and Operations Technology supports two major function with Nomura –

• It provides foundational architectural solutions for market and reference data that powers Nomura’s business. This team is an integral part of Nomura that is responsible for developing and maintaining systems that manage acquisition and distribution of data for the entire organization including front office, middle office, back office, risk, finance and various AI based analytics systems.
• It is responsible for supporting trade settlement and transaction processing technology platform. This team provides day-to-day support for the middle office, operations and regulatory users, and manages vendor and in-house applications. WO IT also owns the applications that provide trade settlement data services to other technology teams from Operations, Finance, Risk, Regulatory and Compliance.

Job Description:

The selected person would be a part of Cross Product Team - Wholesale Data Services & Operations Technology working as a program/ Portfolio manager. The roles and responsibilities are as follows:

• Appropriatly detailed status capture/reporting to management & business stakeholders with regular touch points with key senior leaders
• Collect & update all  program/project status from respective Service leads, and ensure that all work is done towards the business vision and gets appropriate credit
• Chair WDOT Portfolio meetings and all relevant communication with stakeholders
• Collaborate closely with WDOT teams for all SDLC phases of project execution.
• Responsible for ensuring that all documentation accurately reflects the current status of changes and outstanding issues so that business requirements reflect application features and functions
• Manage and ensure Governance for all Projects / Programs run by WDOT
• Maintain a running view of all prioritized and backlog items. Manage regular communication with stakeholders, users and internal team about deliveries and Risk & issues.

Mandatory Skills:

• 8 + years of experience as a BA / PM
• At least 2-3 Years of experience as a Program/ Portfolio Manager
• Mandatory knowledge of Financial Products
• Experience of leading multiyear projects.
• Candidate should be a quick learner. Should have demonstrated in the past quick learning capabilities.
• Strong listening, problem solving, analytical skills and excellent communication skills (both spoken and written English)
• Must be a team player with prior experience in working in a global development team.
• Self-motivated individual, quality and improvement focused.

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge of any of the domains – Front office processes from initiation to booking (Rates / Credit / Equities etc), Instruments & Pricing, Trade Management, Settlements, Reg reporting
• Industry exposure of Investment banking