Job Title: Assistant Manager
Nomura Overview:
Nomura is an Asia-headquartered financial services group with an integrated global network spanning
over 30 countries. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals,
institutions, corporates and governments through its four business divisions: Retail, Asset
Management, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking), and Merchant Banking. 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
Nomura Services India, (Powai) supports Nomura’s businesses around the world. Powai’ s world class
capabilities in trading support, research, information technology, financial control, operations, risk
management and legal support have played a key role in facilitating Nomura’s global operations and
are an integral part of Nomura’s global expansion plans. The Powai operation is a critical part of the
platform to support the growth of Nomura’s global business.
Divisional Overview:
The Corporate finance team performs global and seamless Finance operations including trading and
product control, Group financial reporting and disclosure, management information and reporting for
decision support, planning and development of financial strategy including funding policies and financial
analysis, funding and cash management, tax planning and reporting, investor relations management,
and much more.
Business Unit Overview:
Finance and Capital Reporting (FCR) is a key component of the Finance Department, which has an
excellent reputation within the bank and externally. The unit is responsible for ensuring that the firm is
adequately capitalised at all times against its risk weighted assets as well as maintaining leverage asset
levels under regulatory limits, identifying any threats to the viability of the firm helping the management
identify appropriate actions and ensures timely production of key balance sheet metrics as required by
regulators. The unit covers areas as follows:
Group Reporting: Ensuring Financial statements are complete, accurate, prepared in a timely
manner, and are in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) on a
legal entity and a consolidated basis.
External Reporting: Ensuring regional regulatory returns are produced and submitted timely
covering financial statements, capital ratios, leverage ratio and risk weighted assets on
monthly / quarterly / annual basis
Daily reporting: Ensuring daily production of capital adequacy components such as
counterparty credit risk, market risk, large exposure risk, settlement risk, CVA risk, leverage
ratios, management balance sheet to Senior management
Finance Policy: Provide guidance and support to the reporting teams on the interpretation of
existing and future accounting and capital requirements
The role covers responsibilities for running processes and projects in the Finrep team, which forms part of the External Financial and Capital Reporting of the European consolidation group and its regulated subsidiaries. It will include working with colleagues in Mumbai, London, Frankfurt, Paris and Tokyo.
The role will encompass accurate production and timely submission of monthly/ quarterly/ annual regulatory returns stating the financial positions of EMEA entities:
Understanding the business model, financial transactions and position of EMEA entities.
Perform due diligence of the numbers reported by establishing quality controls around the processes.
Prepare periodic management review packs and provide analytical commentary for key variances.
Responding to business / management driven queries & requests.
Development of monthly/ quarterly MI through new age BI tools such as Alteryx and Power BI.
Interaction with other teams like IT, Ops, LE Controllers and Legal
Defining business requirements for IT implementation in case of new projects / process enhancements
User Acceptance testing of implementation with an eye for identifying gaps under different scenarios
The role will be challenging and will provide a variety of responsibilities covering technical, process & interpersonal skill sets. It will be an excellent opportunity to develop knowledge of regulatory financial and capital reporting providing a deep insight into financial positions of EMEA entities.
Apart from project implementation responsibilities, the role will require the candidate to prepare and analyse UK / EU specific capital and leverage ratios to senior management as per Basel 3 requirements.