Job Description

The candidate will need to maintain close working relationships with the trading desks and develop a deep understanding of the business' trading strategies to evaluate desk performance and provide insight to the firm's senior management on business performance, challenges and opportunities.

The candidate will have oversight of all financial resource metrics including RWA, Leverage Exposure and funding requirements and be expected to provide value add analysis of the usage and returns on resources deployed.

The Product Control team is an integral part of new business development, co-ordinating the Finance response to new products and non-standard transactions, ensuring the new trade proposals meet the firm's revenue return requirements. The candidate will be required to develop and maintain a sound understanding of relevant accounting standards and regulatory developments in order to critically assess new business proposals.

The role offers exposure to senior management within Nomura Finance, Global Markets, Investment Banking, Risk and Operations, challenging the individual to liaise with stakeholders across the bank, which will require excellent communication and presentation skills.

Key competencies

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adapt communication styles to deal with a wide ranging audience from offshore colleagues to senior Global Markets management.
• The ability to develop collaborative and productive working relationships across functions.
• Planning and organisational skills; executing priority actions on time, keeping stakeholders updated and managing expectations.
• A demonstrable sense of ownership and a strong control mind-set with initiative to identify and solve problems and inefficiencies.
• Results orientated with a clear focus on execution and delivery.
• Attention to detail, ensuring accurate delivery of responsibilities.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Strong communication skills with analytical capability and a 'can do' attitude. Ability to face off with key business stakeholders. Self-starter with strong time management and multi-tasking skills. Track record of improving controls and processes and adding value to clients/stakeholders. Product Control experience with a solid understanding of credit products and financial instruments more generally. Accounting qualification and/or numerate degree preferable. Digital skill base preferable.