Risk Governance Manager- Vice President

Job description

Tasks

• Risk Governance Framework: Maintain risk inventory and risk strategy including risk appetite, lead the Senior NPPE Risk Committee, manage NFPE policies and procedures.
• Regulatory monitoring and change management: Ensuring that German risk-related regulations are understood and complied with; monitoring local risk projects and communicating with the global change function and local contacts in Compliance, Finance and other functions.
• Outsourcing controls: Monitor and improve SLA for risk with other Nomura entities, escalate breaches of contract terms.
• Operational Risk Coordinator for the risk function including control tests.
• Regulatory relations: Managing the relationship with the German regulatory authorities for risk-related matters.
• Risk MI: Management of consolidated risk MI for the unit, communication with the global reporting teams responsible for the preparation of the reports; preparation of ad hoc reports for the NFPE CRO.
• CAO activities: Budgeting, forecasting, ongoing cost management and business management for the NFPE risk team.
• Ad hoc tasks: Departmental presentations, setting up governance committees, conducting gap analysis, leading smaller projects and initiatives and other ad hoc projects to support the Group's internal risk governance framework.

Requirements

Essential requirements

• Experience in similar roles in the financial services sector and/or in a professional services firm.
• Fluent in German and English.
• Experience with German regulatory compliance (preferably related to risk) in a financial institution in Germany.
• Thorough knowledge of control frameworks, including the preparation of procedural documents.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.

Nomura competencies

• Trustworthy partner: understanding of customers' needs and problems, responding with high-quality proposals.
• Entrepreneurial leadership: developing new ideas that challenge the status quo.
• Teamwork and collaboration: seeking advice from senior colleagues and using it to improve results.
• Influence: Contribution to the success of the organization, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
• Integrity: Understanding of the corporate philosophy, professional ethics, compliance, risk management and code of conduct.

Goals

• Ability to implement, review and maintain strong control processes.
• Ability to work under pressure and balance multiple conflicting demands.
• Ability to define, agree and communicate priorities.
• Ability to build and maintain strong and mutually supportive working relationships.
• Ability to critically analyze processes, procedures and guidelines and to propose and implement improvements.
• Ability to adapt quickly to internal and external changes.
• Ability to interpret changes.
• Ability to work within our regulatory and internal risk framework.
• Initial experience in managing reporters desirable.

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