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 the Wholesale Data Services & Operations Technology working as a program/ Portfolio manager. The roles and responsibilities are as follows:

• Reporting to management & business stakeholders with regular meetings with key senior leaders
• Collate program/project status from respective application and service leads, and ensure that all work is done towards the business vision
• Logging RoI benefits for key deliverables across the BU
• 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
• Experience of leading multiyear projects
• Good analytical and logical reasoning skills.
• 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 Financial Products
• 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

Employee Benefits:

• Annual health check-up for employee & spouse/partner once every calendar year.
• Mediclaim coverage for employees and up to five family members which can include spouse/partner, children and any two persons amongst parents or parents-in-law.
• Personal accident insurance for employees.
• Term life insurance for employees.
• Crèche facility for employee’s children between six months to six years of age through empaneled vendors.
• Emergency assistance to employees and up to seven family members through Connect and Heal- Provision of 24 X 7 unlimited medical tele-consultation & unlimited emergency ambulance services.
• Employees are provided with basic medical care in office premises which includes the availability of nursing assistant with walk-in general practitioner's services.
• Counselling and dietician consultation service to self only through the firm’s empaneled qualified consultants.

Nomura Leadership Behaviours:

We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees. We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, carer’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age.

*Applying for this role does not amount to a job offer or create an obligation on Nomura to provide a job offer. The expression "Nomura" refers to Nomura Services India Private Limited together with its affiliates.