Operational Business Resilience (Vice President)

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment 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.

The Business Resilience (BRES) function provides the regulatory and internally driven framework for Resilience related risks, ensuring Nomura meets its Regulatory obligations. This team's role and responsibility is performing the 2nd Line of Defence function for Resilience risk.

As part of the 2nd Line of Defence function, the team is responsible for the governance and oversight of the Resilience framework. The function works in close collaboration with all departments to ensure sound risk management. The operational role will involve interaction across divisions and regions including Departmental Management, Risk SMEs and Technologists. Understanding of the organisation and being able to summarise / prepare senior management reporting and distil pertinent management information and articulate points concerning risks and status will be core to the role.

UK and EU regulatory understanding with respect to Operational Resilience is required to ensure that the entities' regulatory requirements are met.

Key objectives critical to success:

• Policy: Ensuring policy, standards and procedures are aligned to regulatory and NEHS requirements. Facilitate relevant activities to ensure that all relevant entities conform to the Nomura NEHS Business Resilience Policy, Operational Resilience Programme and framework requirements. Ensure that appropriate KRIs and other MI is maintained to measure conformance to the framework and standards, escalating non-conformance as appropriate.
• Management Reporting: Presentation skills and the use of the Microsoft application suite. Dashboard and management reporting. Having strong MS-Office skills.
• Report writing: Ability to take information from disparate sources, ask follow-on questions, manage and populate reports documenting exercises/incidents. The role will require analysis and quality assurance skills. Being able to define and apply a structured approach to record keeping, investigations and articulating requirements is required.
• Risk, Regulation, Policy and Framework: The candidate should be able to consider and interpret such regulatory texts and have experience within financial services in order to consider the implications of risks or rationales being provided on state. Ensure conformance with relevant regulations. Assist with regulatory submissions as appropriate. Management reporting, escalations, risk management and regulatory compliance drivers.
• Communication skills and engagement: Hold meetings/calls where required to progress objectives, including appropriate record keeping. Being articulate with stakeholders. Reporting on progress and any requirements for escalation as required.

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

• Operational Resilience: Having experience in a risk management, controls or governance environment is advantageous. Ideally having direct experience relating to UK Operational Resilience / DORA Register of Information and suitable regulatory reporting requirements having been understood and delivered against. Ability to understand concepts and objectives within the Resilience Risk Domain. Facilitating discussions with participants, stakeholders and SMEs on such topics, and maintaining appropriate Operational Resilience related awareness training for staff.
• Business Resilience: Candidate should have experience in a Business Resilience / Business Continuity role having covered Business Impact Analysis (BIA), Business Resilience Plan maintenance and crisis management. Knowledge of a financial execution services business is advantageous. Engagement with department representatives to manage the business resilience/business continuity deliverables.
• 2nd line oversight activities and skills: Ability to support the function in 2nd Line activities where required to supplement and support project or operational requirements. Central support of activities within the programme as a Second Line of Defence (2LOD) SME for Operational Resilience. Governance and oversight for the appropriateness of Important Business Service (and CIFs) mappings, categorisation for such services. Oversight for Operational Resilience framework adherence and operation.
• General skills and aptitudes: Experience in the banking sector; and/or experience in non-financial risk management / 2nd Line of Defence. Willingness to learn and hands-on attitude. Capability to solve and communicate complex tasks on a senior management level. Analytical and solution-oriented mind-set with attention to detail, combined with strategic thinking.

Nomura competencies:

• Explore Insights & Vision: Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a clear vision and direction for the future.
• Making Strategic Decisions: Evaluate all the options for resolving the problems and effectively prioritize actions or make appropriate recommendations.
• Inspire Entrepreneurship in People: Inspire team members through effective communication of ideas and motivate them to actively enhance productivity.
• Elevate Organizational Capability: Engage proactively in professional development and enhance team productivity through the promotion of knowledge sharing.
• Inclusion: Respect DEI, foster a culture of psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a 'Risk Culture' (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).

Right to Work: The UK Government has taken steps to reduce net migration to the UK by limiting the number of overseas workers coming to the UK for employment. Please note that whilst we are able to consider applications from overseas workers from outside the UK (who require a Tier 2 Skilled Worker visa) we can only employ them if we can provide evidence that this is a genuine vacancy for a qualified role.

Diversity & Inclusion: Nomura is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to ensuring we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. We welcome all applications and 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.