Program Manager - Prime Brokerage

Job Description

Company overviewNomura is an Asia-based financial services group with an integrated global network spanning over 30 countries. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three businessdivisions: Retail, Asset Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For furtherinformation about Nomura, visit www.nomura.comDiversity, Equality & Inclusion Nomura is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees.We do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender identity and gender expression, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition, please do not hesitate to contact us.Department overview:Strategic & Regulatory Change (SRC) is a new team within Wholesale Operations and Technology which owns the end-to-end delivery of strategically important, large / complex initiatives, plus management of the overall Change-the-Bank (CTB) portfolio.SRC is organised into two main pillars:

1. Portfolio Management & Strategic Planning - This covers portfolio delivery governance, investment governance and overall strategic change planning
2. Mission Critical Initiative Delivery- Team of senior change professionals who own the delivery of priority initiatives, which are typically complex, end-to-end, high value or problematic. Application of pragmatic change standards and best practise

The program manager role is aligned to Global Markets IT which is responsible for developing and managing trading, pricing, analytics, research and sales systems supporting our Global Markets businesses.Key Responsibilities and objectives critical to success:The Prime Program Manager provides direct program management for the Global Markets IT strategic investment initiatives aligned to the Nomura Prime Business including a strategic vendor on-boarding, client migration and legacy decommission supporting Syntheticand Cash Prime Brokerage.

• Responsibility for building and maintaining well defined delivery plans with appropriate level of detail. Comfortable challenging teams to ensure plans are realistic and achievable
• Agreeing business outcomes with project sponsor and key stakeholders, validating that planned project outputs deliver these outcomes
• Driving delivery across multiple teams in Technology and Business, ensuring the project delivers committed outcomes in the agreed timelines
• Working collaboratively and supporting teams, including active problem solving and management of any risks or issues that arise during delivery.
• Proactively managing and addressing any project conflicts, dependencies and scope changes
• Hands on interaction with development, BA and testing teams to ensure a detailed understanding of requirements and design
• Monitoring and providing an honest, transparent assessment of project progress with timely reporting of status, issues, risks to various management team and governance forums as appropriate
• Excellent communication skills with ability to adapt approach to stakeholder groups and different levels of seniority across the organization as well as ability to present complex problems in a simple way to drive quick and effective decision making
• Establish project governance and control processes throughout the project delivery

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:Essential

• Significant experience in project management of large complex projects at a financial institution
• Good knowledge of Prime Finance business and technology (Equities Financing, Prime Services incl. Cash and Synthetic Prime Brokerage and Quant Prime Brokerage)
• Solid understanding of the front to back trade lifecycle
• Experience working with technology teams to deliver complex solutions across multiple business areas, functions and locations
• In-house technology and 3rd party vendor platforms/vendor management
• Exposure to structured project management techniques and software development lifecycle
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy and timeliness of delivery; Risk, Issues, Dependencies and Assumptions management
• Track record of managing requirements, delivery and testing in a fast paced environment
• Excellent communication skills with ability to adapt approach to different levels of seniority

Desirable

• Business analysis including current state/target state analysis, functional and non-functional requirements specification
• Test strategy, planning and execution
• Technology strategy, architecture and design, working with development teams to ensure solution design meets requirements and is in-line with wider technology strategy
• Working knowledge of market structure and regulatory landscape
• Exposure to financial markets infrastructure, data and processes
• Exposure to various DevOp tools (e.g. JIRA, confluence) to manage project deliverables

Nomura competenciesTrusted Partner

• Understand clients needs and issues, and provide solutions utilizing Nomura Group companys resources, earn the clients trust
• Acquire a wide range of knowledge as an employee of Nomura, instead of focusing only on ones own area of expertise; play a part in improving the companys services level and corporate value

Entrepreneurial leadership

• Take on new challenges for improvement and cultivate a corporate culture of challenge by driving change in business operations

Teamwork:Collaboration

• Ensure views are not biased, accept different opinions and perspectives, and collaborate with other members to create common values

Influence

• Provide appropriate guidance to others and act in a manner that places emphasis on the performance and growth of the organization

Integrity Improve further the understanding and awareness of corporate philosophy, professional ethics, compliance risk management, and code of conduct,