Vice President

**Company overview**

Aon’s Benefit Index®, Nomura’s benefits **rank **#1 **amongst our competitors

**Role Description**

1. Front Office Supervision (“FOS”):

- Coordinating Global Markets front office supervision deliverables across the global business:

- Ensuring adherence to regional supervisory procedures, whilst maintaining global consistency of approach where appropriate
- Delivery of Global Markets front office requirements as defined within the overall GMCO project plan
- Specifics to include:

- Driving embeddedness of Supervision framework across AeJ Front Office through training programs, regular updates and targeted communication plan, etc.
- Ensuring associated regional policies and Front office procedures are continually reviewed and where necessary kept up to date
- Monitoring of key control indicators and dashboards to ensure relevant supervisors are adhering to supervision requirements and escalating issues to respective business leads, Legal/Compliance and Regional Head of GMCO, as necessary
- Working closely with GM supervisors and senior management to ensure remediation plans are created and where necessary resources aligned to address control weaknesses identified through GMCO, Audit reviews, RCSA, Compliance reviews and monitoring, Operational Risk assessments or risk events
- Independently assess, oversee and challenge the effectiveness of the first line of controls
- Ensuring prompt escalation of issues by Front office to relevant control functions
- Ensuring local/regional supervision infrastructures remain compliant with relevant regulatory and statutory requirements at all times while supporting the establishment of global minimum standards for Nomura
- Post approval through Global Head of GMCO maintain a register with all regional deviations from the global minimum standard

2. Front Office Operational Risk activities:

- Coordinating Front Office RCSA (Risk Control Self Assessments) process, ensuring correct prioritisation, participation, frequency and challenge of outputs. Where necessary work closely with relevant business leads and supervisors to prioritise remediation of control weaknesses
- Analysing front office risk indicators / data points (key risk indicators, RCSA and Operational Risk Targeted Risk Assessments) to identify trends or areas of potential heightened operational risk and where necessary escalate to senior management
- Monitoring of Operational Risk Events and tracking timely closure across the business and escalation where necessary

3. Internal Audit Issue Management:

- Monitoring of on-going Global Markets Audit reviews engaging IA in constructive dialogue ahead of finalisation of audit findings
- Monitoring of Global Markets Audit reviews and points focussing on timely closure of Audit issues across the business and escalation to business leads where necessary
- Working closely with GM business leads and supervisors to ensure remediation plans are created and where necessary resources aligned to address control weaknesses identified

4. Conduct Risk:

- Taking an active role supporting business management in the regular review of Conduct Risk KRIs and dashboards as far as applicable to AeJ and work with business management and relevant control functions to respond to identified conduct issues.
- Help ensure that key conduct risk messages are understood and disseminated throughout the business.

5. Regulatory Initiatives:

- Working closely with business leads, supervisors and key control functions - including Finance, Compliance and Operational Risk - to ensure the effective regional implementation of new global and regional regulatory requirements with an impact on operational risk & control
- Where applicable facilitating establishment of governance and project management in line with project requirements
- Contributing to the design of the required control frameworks to facilitate embedding in BAU environment

6. People:

- Developing the regional organisational model for implementation in Region to leverage risk & control managers at all levels of the Global Markets organisation and escalate any coverage issues involving scope or expertise
- Ensuring clear accountability and responsibility is expressed in job descriptions for Risk & Control
- Develop a regional communication plan in line with the global plan for the Head of Global Markets to foster and deepen the understanding of operational risk / culture across the Front Office
- Review appropriateness of supervisory hierarchies and escalate any issues

7. Reporting Lines:

- The role reports to the Regional Head of Global Markets Front Office Supervision

**Requirements**:

- Minimum a Bachelor degree from an accredited university
- Minimum 8 years of experience in established financial institutions covering Supervision, Operational Risk Management or internal control function
- Minimum 8 years of experience in regulatory and supervision standards and requirements
- Experience working