KPMG - Risk Project Manager - Chief Transformation Office

- The Chief Transformation Office (CTO) function is responsible for the delivery of change across the Group, working closely with the other Chief Corporate Officers in support of the business divisions to ensure we meet our regulatory and strategic long-term goals.

- Within CTO, the Risk Change team is involved in supporting Risk Management and Risk Middle Office teams in implementing various change and regulatory initiatives. Team is responsible for providing consulting, business analysis, testing and project management capabilities on strategic system enhancement/migration projects or regulatory change projects such as BCBS 239, Basel III, FRTB etc.

- 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.