Equity Product Control; Vice President

Equity Product Control (Vice President)

Location:

London

• Managing the reporting of a comprehensive daily trading PL and balance sheet, including PL Explain with detailed commentary covering PL drivers, trading activity, key exposures and market context.
• Carry out intelligent analysis and challenge the business performance, trading activity, deployment of financial resources and adherence to governance requirements.
• New deal analysis with responsibility for coordinating Finance wide reviews of new products and new transactions reporting conclusions to senior finance management.
• Own the business relationship, opine and validate PL recognition challenges and reserve requirements.
• Responsible for financial resource and return calculations on new transactions as well as understanding all aspects of financial resource consumption such as capital, balance sheet and leverage exposure for the EMEA Structured Rates business.
• Stakeholder management across Trading, Risk, Operations and IT.
• Monitoring of key controls and reconciliations, owning the adherence to policies and procedures.
• Constantly challenge the status quo and look for opportunities to improve the control environment, maintaining best practice control standards.
• Ensure that all activities are carried out in full compliance with Product Controls policies and procedures and internal Nomura's Policies and Policy Standards.
• Represent Finance's interest on key firm wide projects.
• Staffing: 2 senior reportees in London supported by a team of 6 offshore.

• Relevant product control experience with a strong understanding and experience of Equity products.
• Track record of senior stakeholder management such as trading heads, regulatory bodies, CFO.
• Track record of effective people management, developing talent and optimising resources across a multi-location operating model.
• Ability to manage time‑critical matters alongside medium‑term book of work and project management.
• Strong communication skills able to collaborate across regions and departments.
• Attention to detail with analytical capability, able to deep dive into performance and financial resource metrics.
• Track record of improving controls and processes and adding value to clients/stakeholders.
• Qualified accountant.

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