Rates Middle Office Associate - Singapore - Nomura Asia

Nomura Asia

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Singapore

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Wei Jie

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Description

Job title:
Global Middle Office

Division / Department:
Finance

Location:
Singapore

Corporate Title:
Associate

Nomura Overview

Functional Overview
This is a position within Global Middle Office (GMO) team supporting the Rates, Proprietary and Treasury desks.

In terms of product coverage, the desk trades in vanilla OTC and listed Interest Rate Derivatives as well as more bespoke and hybrid structures.

Role Description / Areas of Responsibility

Ensure timely and accurate trade capture and deal maintenance for Asiaoriginated Derivative trades for Structured Rates and Cross-Asset Hybrid products
Ensure that the key middle office controls are performed daily such as trade validation, trade lifecycle management, position/risk reconciliations, exception monitoring and T+0 P&L flash
Coordination with Operations and other support groups to ensure proper settlement and timely break resolution
Facilitate portfolio optimization initiatives like compressions and couponblending across Flow, Structured Rates and Cross-Asset Hybrid products
Develop and maintain a collaborative relationship with the Front Office and other key stakeholders
Maintenance of Middle Office procedures and ensure crosstraining within regional groups.
Work with IT around implementing Middle Office initiatives, global/local system rollouts and projects involving requirements gathering, migration and UAT

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent education required
37 years of relevant experience preferred. Working knowledge of fixed income derivatives required
Derivative experience required and structured products background would be preferred
A selfmotivated person with robust product exposure, good attention to detail and ability to multitask
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to quickly adapt to a continuously evolving system/workflow environment
Strong working knowledge of Excel required; VBA and Alteryx preferred.

Diversity Statement

Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities, and is fundamentally opposed to any less favorable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, color, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation.

DISCLAIMER:

**This Job Description is for reference only, and whilst this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, it is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. The management reserves the right to revise the job and may, at his or her discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.