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As part of the Risk Management Global Book of Work covering Regulatory, Strategic and incremental business change there is a requirement for an experienced delivery focused project manager with Risk Management domain knowledge. The candidate would be leading several key workstreams to deliver across a number of risk management initiatives.

• Agreeing project scope with senior stakeholders and managing the project scope throughout the project lifecycle.
• Managing all resources that form part of the delivery team for the project(s), incorporating all resources and their activities into clearly stated defendable plan for the project(s). Supporting and mentoring team members to ensure delivery.
• Ability to work and collaborate with across a broad range of stakeholders across various levels of seniority and experience
• Clearly defining success criteria for each stage of the project and ensuring successful completion of all tasks within the project plan on time and within budget. The overall project will be measured by adherence to delivering against a set of preagreed KPIs.
• Understanding and monitoring crossproject dependencies that may impact project delivery.
• Understanding the Nomura s project management framework and ensuring delivery of projects in adherence to the established common standards.
• Effective stakeholder management relating to the project, ensuring through both daytoday management, and in governance, that project status clearly articulated and timely in its delivery.
• Timely reporting of project status, issues, risks to various management team and governance forum as appropriate. Including issue escalation and resolution with portfolio lead and senior management
• Understanding the fronttoback risk business processes allowing for optimal requirements gathering and synergies between projects.
• Good communication skills and understanding of key Market Risk or Credit Risk business processes to support presentation of complex topics to senior management.
• Interprets the regulatory requirements in conjunction with various Risk Management stakeholders to manage scoping of business requirements and delivery.
• Act as business gate keeper, control issues being raised to IT and work with the business to ensure issues are raised appropriately, prioritised and are fully understood/agreed globally.
• Works with business users, business analysts (BAs), IT to ensure requirements are correctly captured, understood and delivered in line with expectations.
• Supportive of continuous improvement and drives the retrospective reviews to improve delivery quality and cadence within the project and wider organisation
• Strong team player who would be required to work closely with the global business, IT, BAs, QA and development team throughout project lifecycle.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Total experience of minimum 8 years and project management experience of 5+ years ideally in Market Risk or Counterparty Credit Risk management or Risk Technology as a Project or Program manager.
• Good knowledge of the Market Risk or Counterparty Credit Risk domain and metrics like VaR, Expected Shortfall, IRC, PD, LGD, EAD, PE, PFE, EEPE, VaR, RWA etc., knowledge of Settlement Risk and Stress Testing.
• Proficient in the use of various tools (e.g. Confluence, JIRA, MPP) to manage project deliverables
• Understanding of Risk data flows and architecture including risk limits
• Ability to utilise and adapt delivery methodologies to suit the projects, stakeholders through the lifecycle of the project
• Ability to lead dedicated workstreams and manage multiple deliveries end to end concurrently
• Selfstarter with excellent presentational, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate at a range of levels within the organization.
• Prior experience in credit risk system implementations and involvement in regulatory projects.
• Exposure to Market Risk or Credit Risk systems, data and processes involved in generating Risk regulatory capital.
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy and timeliness of delivery.
• Experience in defining Testing approach, test plan and test coordination.
• Proven experience facilitating the elicitation of requirements from end users and translating them to user, functional and nonfunctional requirements for Development Teams. Work with development teams (IT) to clarify that design meets requirements.
• Detailed knowledge of all Microsoft Office products, i.e. Word, Excel, Project Power Point
• Management of business analysis and project manager resources to deliver multiple projects/workstreams
• Good educational pedigree, finance/risk domain and Project Management certifications (MBA, PMP, Agile Scrum Master, FRM etc.)

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