Nomura Overview: Nomura Services, India is a core center of excellence powering the group's global businesses. With world-class capabilities in trading support, research, information technology, financial control, operations, risk management and legal support, the firm plays a key role in shaping, strengthening, and accelerating Nomura's global operations. At Nomura, creating an inclusive workplace is a priority. Our approach to inclusion encompasses a variety of initiatives, including sensitization campaigns, implementing conducive policies & programs, providing infrastructure support, and engaging in community events. Over time, we have made meaningful progress in these areas, and this commitment has been well-recognized across the industry. We are proud recipients of the prestigious Top 10 Employers award by the India Workplace Equality Index (IWEI), IWEI Gold Employer of Choice awards, India CSR Leadership Award 2024 for Holistic Village Development Program, and the YUVA Unstoppable Changemaker Awards 2021. Division Overview: Nomura's Global Markets Division handles client transactions for financial institutions, corporates, governments and investment funds around the world. We act as market makers, trading in fixed income and equity securities, including currencies, interest rates and credit in cash, derivatives and structured products. We have taken market-leading positions across the globe by leveraging the strength of our talent, client relationships and technology. Business Overview: Global Markets (GM) Powai team is an extension of regional Global Markets (Front Office) teams supporting Equities, Securitized Products, Rates, FX, and Credit. The division in Powai provides support for a range of activities like research, quantitative modelling, sales and trading support, pricing and balancing, product development and strategy. Powai operation is a critical part of the platform to support the growth of Nomura’s global business The CAOs are part of AEJ GM Business Management team, plays a strategic role in delivering the Global Markets business agenda. They work extensively with Business Heads to drive their strategy, execute the business plans and operating the business. They are the face of business for the various Corporate Functions and are responsible for implementing the business policies. We are seeking a dynamic individual to join the GM CAO - Business Management team, partnering with the AEJ (Asia ex-Japan) GM Business Management team in Hong Kong and Singapore primarily for Securitized Product & Private Credit ‘SPPC’ business. Position Specifications: <table class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse:collapse;border:none" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr style="height:17.0pt"> <td style="width:111.9pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background-color:#d9d9d9;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt 0.0cm 5.4pt"> Corporate Title </td> <td style="width:338.9pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;background-color:#d9d9d9;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt 0.0cm 5.4pt"> Associate </td> </tr> <tr style="height:17.0pt"> <td style="width:111.9pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:#d9d9d9;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt 0.0cm 5.4pt"> Qualification </td> <td style="width:338.9pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background-color:#d9d9d9;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt 0.0cm 5.4pt"> MBA (Finance) or CA </td> </tr> <tr style="height:17.0pt"> <td style="width:111.9pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:#d9d9d9;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt 0.0cm 5.4pt"> Experience </td> <td style="width:338.9pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background-color:#d9d9d9;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt 0.0cm 5.4pt"> 4 - 8 years of relevant experience </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Role & Responsibilities: <table class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse:collapse;border:none" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:450.8pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt 0.0cm 5.4pt" valign="top"> <ul style="list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:1.0E-4pt"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.2pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;line-height:115%;Times New Roman', serif">Strategy: Partner with Desk Heads to plan and execute business strategies primarily with India SPPC and will have to travel to India office frequently in a week</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.2pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;line-height:115%;Times New Roman', serif">New Product Rollouts: Manage the New Product Approval (NPA) process, ensuring all corporate functions (Risk, Ops, Legal, Compliance) is setup for a new product</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.2pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;line-height:115%;Times New Roman', serif">Platform Enhancement: Identify gaps in current infrastructure, drive technology teams to build better tools., including the rollout of new / upgrade platform</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.2pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;line-height:115%;Times New Roman', serif">Business Analysis: Independently lead data-driven analysis to monitor business performance and track key initiatives</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.2pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;line-height:115%;Times New Roman', serif">Performance Monitoring: Tracking P&L, resource consumption (RWAs, Balance Sheet), and budget vs. actuals</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.2pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;line-height:115%;Times New Roman', serif">Policy Governance: Review and update internal policies specifically affecting the India SPPC business</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.2pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;line-height:115%;Times New Roman', serif">Stakeholder Liaison: Act as the central point of contact between Front Office (trader, Sales) and Corporate functions (Middle Office, Finance, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Technology, etc.)</li> <li style="margin:2.0pt 7.2pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;line-height:115%;Times New Roman', serif">Management reporting: responsible for managing the senior management reporting </li> </ul> Key Responsibilities: <ul style="list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:1.0E-4pt"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.6pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Owning and Driving key business initiatives to achieve business objectives </li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.4pt 0.0cm 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Setup appropriate infra and support systems to monitor progress </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.4pt 0.0cm 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Coordinate with various corporate functions to ensure seamless execution</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.4pt 0.0cm 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Own the New Product Launch process collaborate with all corporate functions to ensure successful launch of new business initiatives. </li> </ul> <ul style="list-style-type:square;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Strategic Business Analysis, Management Presentations</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.4pt 0.0cm 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Independently drive strategic initiatives with Product / Sales Desk Heads with data-backed actionable insights focusing on dimensions like revenue trends, product & segment penetration, etc.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.4pt 0.0cm 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Prepare management presentations to summarize revenue, expenses, resource consumption and other management reporting metrics</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.4pt 0.0cm 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Prepare periodic business summaries covering financial metrics as well as business commentary for Senior Management</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.4pt 0.0cm 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Prepare presentations for senior management board meetings, off-sites, town Halls</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.4pt 0.0cm 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Cover cross-divisional and regional franchise initiatives like feedback surveys, designing and maintenance of sales and trading scorecards and other strategic initiatives. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.4pt 0.0cm 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Ensure timely and accurate responses to any ad-hoc business requests / business planning and reviews arising from Desk heads / Senior Management. </li> </ul> <ul style="list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:1.0E-4pt"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.6pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Stakeholder Management</li> </ul> <ul style="list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:1.0E-4pt"> <li style="list-style:none;margin:0.0cm 7.6pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif"> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:1.0E-4pt"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.6pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Proactive in working with Regional COOs and Business Heads</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.6pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Crisp and concise communication with all stakeholders</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.6pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Strong sense of ownership and dedication towards timely deliverables</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul style="list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:1.0E-4pt"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.45pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Partnering with Technology, Operations, Finance, other Corporate functions</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.4pt 0.0cm 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Own day to day issues pertaining to various corporate functions and ensure closure</li> </ul> <ul style="list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:1.0E-4pt"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.4pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Control and Conduct</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.4pt 0.0cm 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Owning Audit points and business continuity management (BCM) plan for the unit</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.4pt 0.0cm 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Expense approval, expense management and tracking</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 7.2pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:6.0px">Ownership of control process like Trading Book Access, Profile Maintenance, etc. </li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Mind Set: <table class="MsoTableGrid" style="width:446.55pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr style="height:14.15pt"> <td style="width:47.5pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background-color:#002060;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt 0.0cm 5.4pt" valign="top"> </td> <td style="width:199.5pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;background-color:#002060;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt 0.0cm 5.4pt"> Mandatory </td> <td style="width:199.55pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;background-color:#002060;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt 0.0cm 5.4pt"> Desired </td> </tr> <tr style="height:202.0pt"> <td style="width:47.5pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;background-color:#d9d9d9;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt 0.0cm 5.4pt"> Domain </td> <td style="width:199.5pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt 0.0cm 5.4pt" valign="top"> <ul style="list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:1.0E-4pt"> <li style="margin:0.0cm -0.7pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Prior experience of driving initiatives in Global Markets space and experience of working on cross-functional projects</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm -0.7pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Good Knowledge of Capital Market products and asset classes (Fixed Income, Equities, Forex, Derivatives)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm -0.7pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Excellent interpersonal & communication skills; ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders at senior levels</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm -0.9pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Strong Analytical and Problem solving skills</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm -5.4pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Good project management skills - planning, coordination/ execution, stakeholder mgmt</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Ability to prioritize high volumes of deliverables across multiple disciplines working under pressure</li> </ul> </td> <td style="width:199.55pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0.0cm 5.4pt 0.0cm 5.4pt" valign="top"> <ul style="list-style-type:square;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:1.0E-4pt"> <li style="margin:0.0cm -0.7pt 1.0E-4pt 0.0px;text-align:justify;Times New Roman', serif">Prior experience in India Illiquid Credit / Loans / Lending space</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px">Is entrepreneurial and independent; self-starter, takes ownership, exhibits integrity, strong motivation and attention to detail</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px">Ambition and enthusiasm to succeed in this challenging role</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Prior experience in strategy roles and/or driving initiatives in Global Markets space and working on cross-functional projects would be an added advantage</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px">Knowledge of Business Intelligence tools like Power BI, Tableau etc. would be an added advantage</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees. We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, carer’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age. *Applying for this role does not amount to a job offer or create an obligation on Nomura to provide a job offer. The expression "Nomura" refers to Nomura Services India Private Limited together with its affiliates. *The benefits are subject to change and will be in accordance with Company’s policies as may be applicable from time to time).

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