Operations Oversight Associate (6 Months Contract)

Job Details

• Job Title: Operations Oversight Associate
• Job Type: Temporary (FAVE)
• Contract Duration: 6 Months
• Department: Operations
• Location: London

Role Overview

• Requirement for a finance individual to manage the day-to-day operations of the Operations Oversight Group (OEG) leading a small team of Operations Management Lead.

Key Objectives Critical to Success

• Manage and maintain a robust control environment, to mitigate exceptional errors and related risks for our trades.
• Act as an escalation point/SME to internal stakeholders to assist the operations team to resolve issues including repo/trade settlement breaks, and the resolution of items noted during the controls review processes.
• Compilation and review of daily KRI's and KPI's via dashboards.
• Regular communication with the wider teams in Powal, India, while developing cross-tenet relationships.
• Participation in key projects, understanding the requirements on the current business and assisting with the delivery of milestones towards delivery.
• Client Money review and substantiation.
• Provide BCP/PIR cover for any offshore critical processes.

Skills, Experience, Qualifications and Knowledge Required

• Excellent written and oral communication skills enabling the individual to liaise effectively and share information with Nomura operations, internal stakeholders, external authorities and other business partners when appropriate.
• Effective prioritisation with the ability to highlight key dependencies and drive the completion of critical deliverables.
• All skills (preferred) / Power BI (preferred)/Excel skills (required)
• Work well within an extended team environment (on shore and offshore) and take a keen interest in developing the function internally or external meetings.
• A self-motivator who is able to work proactively to identify opportunities for process improvement and/or realizing cost savings.
• Good organizational skills and time management in order to actively enhance productivity.
• Elevate Organizational Capability: Engage proactively in process improvement and realize performance improvement through innovation, continuous improvement and enhancement team learning and development and nurture.
• Inclusion: Risk BEI, foster a culture of inclusion and inclusive behavior and psychological teams while balancing responsibilities to the entire stakeholder network. (Challenge, escalate and respect).

Right to Work

• The UK Government have taken steps to reduce net migration to the UK for employment. Please note that whilst we are able to consider applications from overseas workers from outside the UK (who can provide evidence that this is a genuine vacancy for a Tier 2 VISA), we can only employ them if we can provide evidence that this is a genuine vacancy for a UK location.