IT: Project Manager / Business Analyst
【IT】Technical Business Analyst - Futures IT
Associate / Senior Associate
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職務内容
Job Description
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Job/Group Overview:
Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated global network spanning over 30 countries. Japan IT (Information Technology) is a diverse environment with employees of over 25 nationalities, who work on technical support, application development and implementation of system changes for Japan Retail Wealth Management Business and Global Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Nomura provides competitive employee benefits, training and upskilling opportunities, and is committed to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, employee health and well-being.
The Derivatives Futures and Options IT team is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the technology infrastructure that powers execution and clearing operations across global futures and options trading. The team supports a complex ecosystem of trading platforms, execution venues, and post-trade processing systems that handle trade execution (from both external clients and internal traders), order management and clearing.
The position is for Business Analyst / Project Manager on Futures Front to Back Platform in Japan. Main job functions include knowledge and requirement acquisition, coordinating with Business and IT, creating, enhancing and supporting solutions which provide Japan and AeJ operation with settlement and clearing functionality to support both prop and client businesses. |
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Responsibilities:
・Collaborate across IT teams and business stakeholders to align technology solutions with trading and operations requirements, building strong partnerships with Derivatives, Equities, and Operations business lines to ensure seamless integration of execution and clearing systems, and proactively identify opportunities to enhance platform capabilities and operational efficiency.
・Partner strategically with external vendors and technology providers to drive delivery of Nomura's strategic objectives, demonstrating the ability to negotiate requirements, manage expectations, and hold vendors accountable to service levels and timelines that support the firm's execution and clearing roadmap.
・Knowledge acquisition of existing systems.
・Provide level 2 support for Futures systems in Japan.
・Enhance legacy system in accordance with user requirements (new products /client onboarding).
・Ensure smooth integration with other Nomura vendor systems/ solutions.
・BA responsibilities which includes:
ー Interfacing with F&O system users both on-shore and off-shore.
ー Requirement gathering and documenting.
ー Working closely with team lead on client on-boarding tasks and activities.
ー Conducting stake holders/interested parties’ meetings
ー Overlooking whole SDLC and subsequent testing. |
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登録資格
Requirements
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Requirements：
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| Essential Skills & Experience： |
- 3 - 5 years in a Technical BA / analyst role, ideally with understanding of the end-to-end futures trading lifecycle such as Order Management, Trade Execution and Clearing.
- Database SQL or a scripting language (Python / PowerShell) for data manipulation.
- Experience to lead small-to-medium size projects.
- Good communication skills and project management skills such as JIRA, Confluence etc.
- Quick learner, independent worker, team player
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Fluent English and business-level Japanese proficiency.
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| Desirable： |
- Exposure to public cloud migration (AWS/Azure) and SaaS transition strategies.
- Financial-services / regulated-environment experience
- Experience supporting Finance systems, trade capture / enrichment / allocation etc.
- Good technical knowledge and understanding of Core Java, UNIX scripting, MSSQL and Message Middleware (Solace etc).
- Use AI to assist day-to-day work
- F&O business or product knowledge including Futures / Options / Spreads, margin, settlement and clearing is a plus
- Strong Japanese communication skills would be an advantage.
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| Behaviours & Competencies： |
- Analytically rigorous - instinctively reconciles figures and challenges assumptions before they reach a slide.
- Clear communicator - distils complexity into simple, accurate narratives.
- Self-starter - comfortable operating with ambiguity and chasing clarity across a federated stakeholder model.
- Detail-oriented without losing the strategic thread
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勤務地
Location
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大手町
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