Nomura India
Nomura India | FIN_Fin Mgmt,COO & Chng_AN
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Job Highlights
About the team
The Finance Control & Oversight (Risk and Control) function plays a pivotal role in supporting the management at Nomura by providing independent Quality Assurance services to ensure improvement of Risk environments and strengthening of Controls globally (Japan, AeJ, EMEA & US Regions) both within & outside Finance function.
Responsibilities
- This role serves as the custodian of Nomura's global Account Verification System framework, ensuring control integrity across Product Control, Middle Office, and Operations functions.
- The position requires both operational excellence in system administration and analytical rigor to identify control gaps, drive process improvements, and provide strategic oversight.
- The ideal candidate will evolve this function from execution to review and challenge, partnering with stakeholders across regions to strengthen control environments.
- Own and administer the global AV system ensuring completeness and accuracy of ownership structures.
- Conduct independent reviews of verification processes and control effectiveness.
- Identify control gaps, anomalies, and data integrity issues between AV and source systems.
- Design and implement control enhancements and process improvements.
- Engage with Product Control, Middle Office, and Regional Finance teams to ensure verification compliance.
- Challenge incomplete or inconsistent submissions; escalate material issues to senior management.
- Provide guidance on verification requirements and best practices.
- Support audit requirements (SOX, internal, external) with robust documentation and evidence.
- Develop and deliver comprehensive MI across regions (EMEA, US, AEJ, Japan).
- Analyze trends, highlight risks, and provide actionable insights to management.
- Create data visualization dashboards to track KPIs and control metrics.
- Identify opportunities for automation and process digitization.
- Manage system configurations including entity setup, rollovers, and user training.
- Liaise with IT for system enhancements and issue resolution.
- Maintain procedural documentation and knowledge repositories.
Requirements
- Analytical mindset with healthy scepticism - ability to question processes and identify underlying issues (required).
- Risk assessment capability - ability to evaluate control effectiveness and identify emerging risks (required).
- Problem-solving orientation - demonstrated ability to drive root cause analysis and sustainable solutions (required).
- Influencing skills - ability to challenge senior stakeholders constructively and drive change (required).
- Experience in process re-engineering or control enhancement initiatives (preferred).
- Track record of identifying and implementing automation opportunities (preferred).
- Demonstrated progression from execution to oversight/review roles (preferred).
- Advanced Excel & PowerPoint (required).
- Strong attention to detail while maintaining big picture perspective.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure.
- Analytical mindset with problem-solving orientation.
- Strong team player with ability to groom others within the team.
- Experience: 1 – 5 years
About the company
Nomura
Nomura is a Japanese financial services group, founded in 1925 and headquartered in Tokyo, with a network spanning around 30 countries and regions. Its business is organised into four divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking) and Banking.
In India, Nomura Services India in Powai, Mumbai supports the group's global businesses with teams in financial control and reporting, risk management, operations, research, trading support, compliance, legal and technology. Roles in financial control, product control, regulatory reporting, risk, audit and operations there suit chartered accountants, ACCA and CFA professionals and MBA (Finance) graduates.
