Vice President - Transformation Specialist - Chief Transformation Office

Company Overview

Nomura is a financial services group with an integrated global network. By connecting markets East & West, we service the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through our four business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking) and Banking.

Driven by the insights of some 28,000 people worldwide, we put our clients at the center of everything we do, delivering unparalleled access to, from and within Asia. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com

Divisional Overview

The Chief Transformation Office function oversees group-wide transformation on mission critical projects for the firm. We’re aligned to our key businesses across the group and operate to global standards and governance across our programs. Our purpose is to support Nomura’s business strategy and deliver consistent group-wide services based on common operating principles.

Job Overview

The Vice President, Transformation Specialist is a high-impact, execution-focused role tasked with defining and delivering strategic transformation initiatives across Nomura. This position bridges strategic vision and operational execution, requiring a change-driven leader who can translate ambiguous objectives into structured, measurable outcomes while engaging senior stakeholders globally.

The ideal candidate is a go-getter with strong technical rigor (financial modeling, AI/Excel) and exceptional leadership (influencing without authority, driving cross-functional alignment). While domain expertise in financial services is advantageous, the role prioritizes technical adaptability, change leadership, and execution excellence.

The VP will lead cross-functional teams and engage senior stakeholders across functions and regions. The portfolio will span structural reform, location strategy, AI-enabled transformation, outsourcing and strategic vendor partnerships, with a focus on measurable outcomes and effective execution.

Responsibilities

Strategy, Business Cases and Workstream Definition

• Translate strategic priorities into well-defined initiatives, problem statements, options and target outcomes.
• Develop rigorous business cases, including baseline analysis, financial models, benefits, costs, dependencies, implementation options and delivery risks.
• Scope workstreams, define deliverables and milestones, establish governance, and create practical mobilisation and execution plans.
• Apply strong numerical judgement to challenge assumptions, test scenarios and support evidence-based investment decisions.

Transformation Delivery and Value Realisation

• Own initiatives from definition through mobilisation and delivery, maintaining clear plans, decision points, dependencies, risks and outcomes.
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams through influence, setting direction and holding contributors accountable without relying on formal line-management authority.
• Create transparent reporting for senior governance forums and ensure agreed benefits are measurable, tracked and realised.
• Balance strategic ambition, execution feasibility, control requirements and sustainable organisational capability.

Strong AI-Adoption into the role

• Identify, articulate and prioritise practical AI prompts and use cases that improve productivity, decision-making and business outcomes within the role.
• Use Microsoft Copilot effectively for administration, analysis, document production and presentations; bring familiarity with the broader enterprise AI landscape.

Senior Stakeholder Engagement and Project Leadership

• Build trusted relationships with Business Managers and senior stakeholders across functions and regions, including at VP, Executive Director and Managing Director level.
• Structure complex issues into concise, decision-ready materials and communicate recommendations with clarity and credibility.
• Facilitate workshops, challenge constructively, resolve ambiguity and build alignment across stakeholders with differing priorities.
• Coordinate global project teams across Asia, the UK and the US, ensuring clear ownership, timely decisions and consistent execution.

What Success Looks Like

• Strategic priorities are converted quickly into credible, decision-ready business cases and clearly scoped workstreams.
• Financial and operational assumptions are transparent, evidence-based and sufficiently robust to support senior investment decisions.
• Projects mobilise effectively, maintain senior stakeholder alignment and deliver agreed milestones, benefits and control outcomes.
• AI use cases and prompts move beyond ideas into practical adoption, with measurable productivity or business value.
• Project and business solution recommendations balance value, capability, resilience, governance and regulatory requirements.
• The VP is recognized as a trusted, self-directed transformation partner who can lead project teams and influence effectively across functions, cultures and time zones.

Requirements

• Minimum Degree in Business Management or related field
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in business transformation function with a focus on strategy, change delivery, and business analysis within investment banking or the wider financial services sector.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in financial modelling, scenario analysis, cost-benefit assessment, benefits sizing and confident interpretation of operational and workforce data.
• Experience in defining strategic initiatives, preparing compelling business cases with financials and converting ambiguous objectives into structured, executable workstreams.
• Advanced Microsoft 365 user skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, with practical experience using Microsoft Copilot for administration, analysis, document creation and presentations.
• Demonstrated experience writing and progressing AI prompts and/or use cases that improve productivity or deliver measurable outcomes; knowledge of Anthropic or similar AI models would be advantageous.
• Track record of successful end-to-end project delivery, including planning, governance, risk and dependency management, senior reporting and benefits realisation.
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills, with the judgement and presence to engage, influence and challenge Business Managers and stakeholders at the working level (Vice President or Executive Director).
• Ability to lead cross-functional project teams through influence and accountability in an individual-contributor role.
• Experience in one or more of the following is strongly preferred: location strategy and organisational design; target footprint and offshoring execution; AI transformation; or outsourcing and strategic vendor partnerships.
• Understanding of sourcing, outsourcing governance, service management third-party risk, operational resilience and applicable regulatory requirements within financial services is preferred.
• High attention to detail, sound judgement, intellectual curiosity and the ability to work independently across multiple priorities with targeted direction.
• Ability to coordinate effectively with global stakeholders and maintain flexibility to manage stakeholder communications across Asia, the UK and the US.

Nomura Leadership Behaviours

• 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 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 inclusion and psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a "Risk Culture" (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).

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 Job Description 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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