Job Description

Company overview
Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning over 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Retail, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking), and Investment Management. Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com .

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Job/Group Overview
Nomura is a leading financial services group and the preeminent Asia-based investment bank with worldwide reach. Nomura provides a broad range of innovative solutions tailored to the specific requirements of individual, institutional, corporate and government clients through an international network in 30 countries. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York, Nomura employs approx. 26,000 staff worldwide.
Strong Global Markets franchise across asset classes, solutions oriented Investment Banking and well-recognized Research team is supported by a talent pool of over 6,500 employees in the region. International Wealth Management\'s latest expansion efforts to broaden its coverage of ultra-high-net-worth clients and business footprint in the Middle East makes this an exciting time to be in Asia Ex-Japan.
Within Nomura\'s Group Technology Office (GTO) organization, Compliance and Core Corporate Technology team supports various corporate divisions including Legal & Compliance (LCC), Human Resources (HR), Internal Audit (IA), Corporate Real Estate Services (CRES) & Security.
While the coverage of role is wider to cover all Core Corporate Technology functions, Compliance will be main focus for this role. Reporting to the Global Head of Compliance Technology and Asia pacific Head of Core Corporate Technology, this role holder will be responsible for end to end management of technology needs for regional corporate partners.

Responsibilities:
- Manage mid-to-large size regional and global projects primarily in regulatory Compliance domain including Financial Crime - Anti Money Laundering (AML) monitoring, Trade and Communications Surveillance, regulatory reporting etc.
- Work along with support teams and act as an escalation contact to deliver stable and functional systems in region
- Partner with regional stakeholders to define and execute regional functional technology strategy and keep them abreast of global developments
- Mentor and guide junior team members and vendors in the team for Business Analysis as well as technical design of the systems
- Manage a small team of permanent staffs in region, delivery team at offshore location and several vendor staff in global locations
- Financial planning for Regional Core Corporate technology team including annual budget preparation and tracking, vendor contract management etc.
- Represent region in various global working groups and forums
- Collaborate with control functions like Internal and external Auditors
- Ensure ongoing adherence to various Nomura IT Risk and Control, Governance and Information Management standards

Requirements
- Experience in Compliance functions like Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Trade and Communications Surveillance, Insider Information Management systems will be a must
- 5 years of IT project management experience in a financial institution
- Must have experience in processing and analysing large data sets for business analysis purpose and technology system design and architecture. Exposure to emerging technologies like public and private Cloud
- Proven skills to manage a team of vendors spread in global locations and different time zones
- Prior experience working in a global team and matrix reporting organization will be preferred
- Ability to independently establish and manage relations with senior stakeholders in the organization

Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or finance-related
- Total 10 years of experience working in Financial industry, preferable Compliance domain

Soft Skills
- Communication
- Presentation
- Relationship building
- Influencing
- Teamwork & Collaboration
- Creative thinking

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 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.

Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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