Senior Project Manager

Role description

The candidate will be a member of the international change team responsible for delivery and support of core transformation initiatives. Strong skills in business requirements & product coverage analysis, data mapping across platforms, support solution design and technical implementation deliverables. The ability to help prototype, visualise, re-engineer and automate processes in cross functional teams would be key.

The candidate must have strong analytical and problem solving skills and be able to work in a dynamic environment to rapidly produce robust solutions. The candidate will have to liaise with key stakeholders across Finance, Middle-Office, Risk and Technology, have the ability to work independently to see initiatives through from inception to delivery and have a strong attention to detail.

Key objectives critical to success

·       Strong analytical and communication skills with the initiative to identify and solve problems

·       Ability to define requirements, solutions, scope and work across end-to-end implementation lifecycle

·       Ability to proactively reengineer processes and deliver digital solutions to improve department efficiency

·       Demonstrate confidence in engaging and presenting complex solutions to senior individuals

·       Manage relationships with stakeholders in Finance, Risk and Technology functions across all regions

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required

·       Financial services experience, ideally in a transformational, middle office, collateral, product control role

·       Good understanding of data preparation, modelling and visual data delivery through dashboards

·       Experience with implementing data management capability – centralisation of data stores, data sourcing, data quality and controls definition and simplification

·       An understanding of profiling current state, define future state, consolidate data insights and present these succinctly to senior stakeholders

·       Ability to be proactive and use initiative to improve and reengineer processes and systems and help support legacy solutions e.g. a centralised adjustment mechanism and op model

·       Strong communication skills to accurately elicit requirements from stakeholders, present project updates to senior management and provide training to project end users

·       Ability to take ownership of end to end project management from inception to delivery.

·       Proficient in effectively documenting complex business and technical requirements and workflows using a variety of tools and ability to present these to business and technology stakeholders

·       Experience of Agile process and tools, e.g. JIRA, Confluence etc

·       Co-ordinate UAT testing for new process implementation with an ability to identify risks involved and communicate with respective teams for resolution

·       Willingness to help others across the department in improving their digital skills through training sessions or workshops

Desirable skills and experience

· Understanding of collateral management, P&L reporting, balance sheet substantiation, and trade lifecycle controls

· Some experience of using digital tools would be beneficial that would support key platform data migrations e.g. Python, Alteryx, VBA

· Basic understanding of equities, fixed income and derivatives products

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.