Credit Risk Specialist

Role description:

As part of the Risk global book of work covering regulatory, strategic and incremental business change there is a requirement for an experienced delivery focused project manager with Risk 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 pre-agreed KPIs.

• Understanding and monitoring cross-project dependencies that may impact project delivery.

• Ensuring delivery of projects is in accordance with Nomura‘s project management governance

protocols and standards.

• Effective stakeholder management relating to the project, ensuring through both day-to-day

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 front-to-back 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 Market Risk or Credit 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, 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:

• Equivalent work experience of 8+ 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. MPP, Confluence, JIRA) to manage project deliverables

• Understanding of credit 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

• Self-starter 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 Credit risk systems, data and processes involved in generating credit risk regulatory

capital.

• Strong attention to detail, accuracy and timeliness of delivery.

• 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, 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.)