Division Overview:

Chief Transformation Office (CTO) provides project management and business analysis support across Nomura's wholesale banking functions. It is a cross regional and divisional transformation team delivering initiatives related to new regulations, implementing new infrastructure, business expansion, product roll outs and introducing banking controls.

Within CTO, Wholesale Front Office (WSFO) team drives technology and business transformation projects for Front Office functions. Within WSFO, Client Initiatives team works on Front-to-Back Mission Critical programmes and act as Strategic Transformation Partners to Client Account Management (CAM), GM Sales, Marketing, Research functions across the Client Lifecycle. Client Initiatives team delivers client lifecycle and client experience change and its portfolio spans client governance, client strategy & analytics and (AI-enabled) client document management CRM and sales tooling and client data integration, delivered by a distributed team across India (Powai), London and New York and working closely with Front Office, Operations, Credit and Legal stakeholders.

Role Overview:

As a Project Manager within the Client Initiatives team, you are responsible for driving projects under the Wholesale Front Office (WSFO) - Client Transformation & Strategy (CTS) Programme and Fusion Programme
Within CTS Programme, significant project opportunities have been identified to strategically transform Nomura's Client Lifecycle, to enhance the client experience, and to deliver material efficiency gains and quantifiable returns for Client Account Management (CAM) function
Key work streams in CTS programme include Client Governance Analytics (CGA), Client Strategy & Analytics (CSA), Client Document Management (CDM), and Fusion projects
This role will focus on the Client Governance Analytics (CGA) workstream which aims to provide a holistic set of PowerBI dashboards to CAM function to identify financial / non-financial risks and outlier behavior across areas such as Credit Risk, Margin Disputes, Settlement Fails, and Revenue & Volumes
Within the Fusion Programme, the role focuses on integrated reporting to provide data-driven decision-making capability to monitor the client lifecycle from onboarding to offboarding, including ongoing monitoring for clients who may expose the firm to reputational risk
This is a global project with stakeholders in all Nomura regions

What We Offer:

We support employee wellbeing by ensuring a sense of purpose and belonging.
We offer a comprehensive range of wellbeing services which allows employees to get access to the assistance they need at any point in their wellbeing journey.
Our bespoke benefits support employees and their family's holistic wellbeing and are inclusive of diverse identities and family structures.

Position Specifications:

Corporate Title	Associate
Functional Title	Project Manager
Experience	6 - 10 Years
Qualification	MBA (Tier 1 or 2) with relevant undergraduate degree
Requisition No.	14927

Role & Responsibilities:

Responsible for managing requirements including collation of detailed business requirements and functional specifications, tracking requirements, documentation and sign offs
Facilitation of workshops with business stakeholders to document current business processes
Propose and document future state business processes
Functional design of user interfaces and reporting dashboards
Option analysis & documentation including the identification of gaps and issues
Determination of clear remediation requirements
Responsible for project management and different work stream tracking at a program level (PMO)
Partner with the business, liaise with technology, make sure that program and goals are well defined, actively managed
Escalate where there are project issues or project inefficiencies
Bring consistency and high utility to the program across efforts and stay interconnected with other relevant programs and deliveries
Perform ad-hoc analysis to support project work

Skills, Experience, Qualifications and Knowledge required:

Previous experience working within Wholesale Banking
Knowledge of Global Markets and Investment Banking product sets
Previous experience leading requirements analysis and documentation
Previous experience of banking business management or change management
Keen interest in AI tools and vision to use them for instant insights, intelligent workflows and adoption to business needs keeping in mind the need for secure, governed and permission-aware AI platforms
Ability to engage with stakeholders and manage cross functional projects with varying levels of experience
Ability to develop impactful written presentations and participate effectively in meetings with senior client staff
Ability to work under limited supervision (self-starter) in unstructured environments
Intellectual strength / flexibility to rapidly understand complex problems and rationalise these into a workable solution which can then be delivered
Highly literate with Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
Well versed with Project Management Tools like JIRA, Kanban boards, Confluence, Sharepoint build
Familiarity with different project management and delivery methodologies (e.g. Agile, Prince 2)
Familiarity experience articulating requirements in the form of Use Case, User Stories and using UML (or other similar structures)
Desired: Previous Experience with data visualisation tools such as Power BI and Tableau
Desired: Previous Experience in finance, operations or credit risk change projects
Desired: Certifications in technical capability are advantageous
Desired: Post Graduate degree required

Nomura Leadership Behaviours:

Leadership Behaviours	Description	Element
Exploring Insights & Vision	Comprehensively analyse the nature of the problems we face and set our focus toward the future vision	Gather Intelligence Create a vision Identify an issue
Making Strategic Decisions	Analyse options and feasibility to resolve issues, in making judgments and recommendations	Identify countermeasures Assess feasibility Make a judgment
Inspiring Entrepreneurship in People	Promotes the vision and goals to others in such a way that inspires commitment and independent contributions	Influence Inspire Commit
Elevating Organizational Capacity	Maximize organizational productivity through leadership development and engagement	Have an ownership in own development Support other's growth Encourage organizational growth
Inclusion	Respect diverse perspectives and promote psychological safety and the creation of a risk culture	Foster psychological safety Encourage the active participation of all talent Foster a risk culture

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.

.The benefits are subject to change and will be in accordance with Company's policies as may be applicable from time to time).

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