Associate - Risk Business Analyst - Risk Management

**Nomura Overview**

**Function Overview**

The Risk Management Department at Nomura is broadly organised according to the main risk classes; Credit Risk Management, Market Risk Management, Operational Risk Management and New Products/Business.

The Risk Management team works to provide a firm wide capital management framework, which takes into account the availability and cost of capital, its effective utilization within and across business lines and the overall capital adequacy of the firm. Risk Management's key activities include ensuring transparency and effectively managing market, credit, liquidity, concentration and tail risk within the risk appetite of the firm and monitoring the effectiveness of capital utilization through the use of limit structures, with an emphasis on stress testing and risk adjusted returns on capital efficiency measures.

**Responsibilities**:

- Ensure adherence to project governance and control processes around project delivery
- Support development of well-defined project plan and effective tracking of achievements, issues and project deliverables
- Timely reporting of project status, issues, risks to various management team and governance forum as appropriate
- Leverage strong foundation of various market risk concepts to manage delivery of business mandatory market risk related changes
- Good communication skills and understanding of key Market risk business processes to support presentation of complex topics to senior management.
- Interprets the regulatory requirements in conjunction with various Market risk 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 and are fully understood/agreed globally.
- Works with lead BAs to assists IT teams with an understanding of requirements and functional requirements specification.
- Good team player who would be required to work closely with the global business, IT, BAs, QA and development team throughout project lifecycle.
- Work with lead PMs to organise and prioritise work for the global team within deadlines set and escalate as required.

**Job Requirements**:

- Minimum a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
- Minimum 4 years’ experience in Market Risk management as a Business analyst or Business user or Project manager with interest in developing as a project manager.
- Minimum 4 years of working knowledge of Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange trading products
- Experience in Market Risk Limit implementation would be advantageous
- Experience of business partner management, presentation and good written & verbal communication skills
- Exposure to various Devop tools (e.g. Confluence, JIRA) to manage project deliverables
- Prior experience in market risk system implementations and involvement in regulatory projects.
- Exposure to market risk systems, data and processes involved in generating market risk regulatory capital.
- High level understanding project management concepts and approach
- Track record of managing requirements, delivery and testing in a fast paced environment
- Strong attention to detail, accuracy and timeliness of delivery.
- Some experience in defining Testing approach, test plan and test co-ordination.
- Proven experience facilitating the elicitation of requirements from end users and translating them to user, functional and non-functional 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, Power Point & Visio

**Diversity Statement**

Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities, and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation.

**DISCLAIMER**:This Job Description is for reference only, and whilst this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, it is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. The management reserves the right to revise the job and may, at his or her discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
**TS ID: 1217644