Job Title: GMO Controller
Corporate Title: Vice President/Senior Associate
Division: Finance
Department : Global Middle Office
Location: Singapore

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 three business divisions: Retail, Asset Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm practices disciplined entrepreneurship while building on a long tradition of serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com .
Function Overview:
The FX & EM, BRM and Treasury GMO team looks after trade support and revenue reporting, control and governance based in Singapore. Product coverage includes vanilla and structured products. The team within Global Middle Office at Nomura acts as a key advisory and value-add function to the business covering various aspects of finance (eg. Treasury Funding charges, Unsecured Funding, Issuance funding booking model, FX sell down, legal entity booking model, business analysis, issuance-entity related projects, financial resource optimization, cross-functional liaison etc.)
Responsibilities:

• Responsible for control and governance of FX & EM, BRM, Treasury and Corporate P&Ls across 20 legal entities. Identify control gaps that could have financial implications and provide strategic solutions.
• Take ownership, and be accountable for the timely and accurate calculation, verification, reporting of daily revenue to internal stakeholders and managing issues independently.
• Undertake various month end procedure, inclusive of Balance Sheet substantiation
• Interaction with Business, Treasury Funding desk, Operations, FC&R, Quants and other functions to resolve booking, P&L attribution, accounting, valuation and financial resource related queries etc.
• Handle queries on Issuance related matters, Treasury related charges, bespoke transaction deals and resolve any adhoc issues around P&L and Balance Sheet
• Support cross regional booking, new product initiatives and various projects involving the Businesses
• Provide support and involvement in the Issuance and Funding booking model around P&L validation for Structured Notes Issuances
• Develop strong partnership with the various stakeholders and look to provide solution and cross coordination across functions on key focus areas.
• Focus on Process re-engineering, Automation and leveraging digital tools to optimize process and while ensuring best practices.

Requirements:

• University Graduate in Finance/Economics/Accounting with minimum 8 years of experience in product control/market risk within investment banking or a large financial services company.
• Experience with handling Note Issuance and Treasury matters for ICO funding purposes.
• Experience in P&L attribution, FX Exposure, FX Sell down and standard funding charges.
• Experience in OCA, cross border booking and cross border controls is preferred.
• Strong Fixed Income and structured product knowledge is preferred.
• Strong MS Office skills, able to present data in a readable format within a reasonable timeframe. Basic knowledge of digital tools (Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, Python, RPA, UI Path etc) will be an added advantage but not a prerequisite
• Should be self-driven, fast with strong analytical, communication and problem solving skills, combined with well-developed inter-personal skills, and independent
• Strong project management and communication skills
• Team player, proactive and self-starting, able to navigate across multiple stakeholders and display leadership qualities to bring stakeholders together to achieve the desired result

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.
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