Nomura India
Nomura India | OPS-GMO / Prime MO
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Job Highlights
About the role
The position represents a managerial role within the Prime Middle Office, combining strategic oversight with deep operational expertise. The position demands a unique combination of deep product expertise, operational excellence, and strong business acumen with risk awareness and transformation leadership capabilities. The candidate is expected to own outcomes rather than simply managing processes, taking responsibility for identifying control and business risks, challenging existing frameworks, driving sustainable remediation, and improving operational scalability.
Responsibilities
- Position Overview The position represents a managerial role within the Prime Middle Office, combining strategic oversight with deep operational expertise.
- This executive-level position requires significant relevant experience in equity financing, prime brokerage, or middle office operations, with a Bachelor's degree required and MBA or professional qualifications preferred.
- The role is positioned globally across multiple regions, serving as the senior operational subject matter expert for complex financing transactions and lifecycle events.
- The candidate will provide comprehensive ownership of the equity financing operating model, bridging front office trading and sales functions with operations, technology, risk, and control teams.
- Role Summary This role serves as the critical strategic bridge between Equity Financing Trading, Prime Brokerage, and Sales teams on one side, and Operations, Technology, Risk, Treasury, Product Control, Legal, and Compliance functions on the other.
- Provide executive oversight of the global Equity Financing/Stock Loan middle-office framework.
- Serve as senior operational SME for complex financing transactions, structures, and lifecycle events.
- Partner strategically with Front Office to understand business strategy, financing demand, and client requirements.
- Translate business requirements into scalable operating models, controls, and technology solutions.
- Oversee comprehensive exception-management frameworks and senior-level issue resolution protocols.
- Lead governance for trade amendments, corrections, cancellations, and approval workflows.
- Drive global process consistency and service standards while accommodating market-specific requirements.
- Identify strategic opportunities to improve client service, reduce operational risk, and enhance financing economics.
Requirements
- The candidate must demonstrate comprehensive understanding of securities lending, stock borrowing, equity financing, and prime brokerage mechanics.
- The role requires deep knowledge of the complete lifecycle from locate/borrow requests and trade execution through settlement, collateralization, recalls, returns, and close-out procedures.
- Understanding of long inventory monetization and the complex interactions between equity holdings and financing structures is essential.
- Strategic oversight of reconciliation frameworks, counterparty exposure management, and key risk indicator monitoring across global markets is essential.
- Significant relevant experience in investment banking operations, Prime Brokerage, Equity Financing, Securities Lending, Stock Loan or Equity Middle Office.
- Strong understanding of equity and derivatives products, securities financing and operational processes.
- Extensive experience in Prime Brokerage, SBL/EQF or related global markets environment.
- Demonstrated experience partnering with Front Office and second-line Risk/Compliance functions.
- Experience managing complex, cross-regional initiatives in multi-jurisdictional regulated environments.
- Experience with audit, risk management, control testing or regulatory remediation strongly preferred.
- Proven track record managing global teams and operating across multiple time zones.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency including data analysis, pivot tables, and management reporting.
- Strong PowerPoint capabilities for senior-management presentations and governance forums.
- Experience with Prime Brokerage, Securities Lending/Stock Loan and trade lifecycle platforms.
- Familiarity with securities-lending market infrastructure and platforms such as EquiLend/Pirum.
- Experience with reconciliation, settlement, collateral and exposure-management systems.
- Knowledge of workflow automation, data visualization and business-intelligence tools.
- Familiarity with regulatory reporting, risk-management and compliance platforms.
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.
