Nomura India | FIN_Grp Fin Cntrl_VP

About the team

The Finance Policy Group is a centralised group within the Finance Department, bringing together Regulatory, Liquidity and Accounting policy SMEs into a single centralised team to provide synergies and consistency across Accounting, Regulatory and Liquidity policy topic areas.

Responsibilities

• The individual will be responsible for assessing the requirements related to these areas, liaising with the financial and regulatory reporting teams, business areas, Finance and other Corporate functions to manage the internal life cycle of accounting and regulatory change.
• This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing and dynamic team with a wide array of responsibilities and immediate opportunities to make an impact on senior stakeholders.
• The role will include current and future policy interpretation, analysis and documentation focusing on Accounting topics under US GAAP, IFRS and Local GAAP impacting Nomura entities.
• Primary responsibilities will include: Accounting and regulatory change.
• Analysis of new accounting and regulatory requirements (e.g leverage ratio, prudential consolidation) as well as impact to Nomura entities.
• Communicating UK GAAP and IFRS technical updates to Finance and other members of staff.
• Work with the reporting and project teams to ensure accounting and regulatory change projects are delivered in line with the requirements.
• Represent the firm's views and participate with industry forums.
• Preparing and delivering training materials on areas of accounting change or existing topic areas Policy and interpretations.
• Development and maintenance of technical policy documents for technical topic areas.
• Liaison with the Accounting Policy Groups regional and global leadership to ensure global consistency in application of accounting policies Advisory.
• Point of contact for Finance colleagues and other departments on accounting-related queries.
• Developing and documenting technical interpretations and technical papers to support technical decisions.
• Providing input through technical research on regulatory and liquidity policy matters.
• Participation in ad hoc Finance initiatives and projects.
• Ability to work independently to a high degree of accuracy with a logical and structured approach.
• Ability to self-review, identify issues and investigate / escalate appropriately.
• Flexibility and the ability to keep pace with ever changing regulatory landscape.
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues and senior management and build relationships within the department, across functions and across regions.
• A good understanding US GAAP and IFRS requirements as applicable to an investment bank with a desire to develop as a technical SME.
• Experience of working within a similar technical accounting policy function, accounting advisory team at an audit firm, or financial reporting team at an investment bank.
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal).
• Project management and organisational skills including taking ownership for key policy related change projects as well as managing a variety of stakeholders across the firm.
• Good product knowledge across a variety of asset classes.

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.

• Industry: Global investment banking and financial services
• Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan (Nomura Holdings, Inc.)
• In India: Nomura Services India in Powai, Mumbai, a large centre supporting the group's businesses worldwide, with further offices in Mumbai and Gurugram