Corporate Infrastructure (Compliance) Industrial Placement & Summer Internship Programme

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About Nomura

Nomura is an Asia-headquartered financial services group with an integrated global network spanning over 30 countries. By ‘Connecting Markets East & West’, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Retail, Asset Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership.

Corporate Infrastructure overview

Our Corporate Infrastructure business areas are what underpins the success of the entire organisation. These are the functions that support the business, helping us deliver innovative financial solutions that set Nomura apart in the global marketplace. In our highly competitive and fast-paced industry, strong infrastructure teams are fundamental to our success. Work in these areas with us and you’ll be operating at the forefront of your field, as well as gaining a valuable insight into how Nomura operates on a global scale.

The Compliance summer internship and industrial placement programmes aim to give you exposure into Regulatory Affairs, Financial Crime and Control Room.

Corporate Infrastructure (Compliance) Summer Internship Programme

Programme overview

Industrial placements and summer internships are a great opportunity to experience first-hand the possibilities of a career in banking. It is your chance to get a feel for our culture, create new networks and gain valuable on-the-job training. They are also the perfect preparation for a subsequent full time role. Nomura will extend full time offers to strong performers.

Training – Interns and placements students will receive extensive training to enhance the skills they need to perform well during their internship. As part of the corporate infrastructure programme, you will receive training which will include business overview presentations, structured class room seminars, internal training by business representatives and team- building with colleagues. You will receive ongoing performance feedback and have access to division specific educational sessions designed to aid your professional development. Managers will focus on your career development and dedicate their time to coach and mentor you, helping you realise your full potential.

What’s your role?

Through this programme, you will gain in-depth knowledge of compliance whilst being exposed to a wide breadth of compliance disciplines, such as:

Regulatory Affairs, Risk Assessment and Employee Compliance - Spending time in this team within compliance would give the opportunity to get exposure and experience of a wide range of regulatory issues and priorities which impact the firm – not just in Compliance but across Finance, Risk Management and other areas of the business as well. The team also has a broad range and scope of responsibilities which include the areas set out below:

• Coordination and management of Nomura’s relationship with regulators in the EMEA region – most notably the PRA and FCA. This is a very demanding and dynamic area of compliance responsibility as the firm needs to ensure that regulatory expectations are being met and that the firm is coordinated and organised in relation to regulatory relationships. These requirements and expectations are continually changing and evolving.
• Employee compliance – management of the personal account dealing process, regulatory registrations, gifts and entertainment and outside business interests. These are some of the core processes which Compliance undertakes centrally.
• Compliance risk assessment team – team are responsible for undertaking compliance desk reviews and interaction with operational risk for compliance matters. An area of compliance which potentially gives broad exposure across different functions within the firm.
• Conduct risk – an area of significant regulatory focus and a considerable amount of work is ongoing to define conduct risk, provide training across the firm and collate key risk indicators in relation to conduct risks.
• Compliance management information and reporting

Financial Crime - Spending time in this team within compliance would give the opportunity to get exposure and experience of a wide range of financial crime and anti-money laundering issues which impact the whole firm. The team has primary responsibility for the firm’s systems and controls designed to protect and enhance the fight against financial crime which is essential to the integrity of the UK financial system. There will be scope for an individual on the Compliance Graduate Programme to get involved in all of the activities conducted by the Financial Crime team thereby providing full lifecycle of a client relationship from a financial crime perspective.

• Financial Crime surveillance including suspicious activity, negative new and sanctions monitoring
• Conducting enhanced due diligence for the firm’s client which represent a high financial crime risk, for example Politically Exposed Persons or clients located in high risk jurisdictions
• Exposure to multitude of client risk and regulatory issues either when on-boarding clients or during the client relationship from various risk jurisdictions.
• Participation in the Politically Exposed Persons monitoring programme
• Involvement in various systems and controls enhancement initiatives with firm-wide reach

Control Room - The EMEA Control Room team has responsibility for handling research clearance, maintaining the Firm’s Watch and Restricted Lists, conducting transactional conflicts checks, tracking Chinese wall crossings, significant position disclosures and other associated Control Room tasks including Personal Account Dealing clearance, Surveillance and Investigations. The EMEA Control Room is instrumental in developing the Firm’s policies and technology infrastructure in these areas in line with regulation and market practice and involves dealing with all areas of the business.

• Implementing controls and conducting surveillance to ensure the effectiveness of the Firms information barriers to make sure that inside information cannot leak to the public side of the Firm.
• Responsible for meeting the Firm’s Takeover Panel disclosure obligations, internal disclosure reporting and Significant Position Disclosure requirements throughout Europe and the Middle East

What are we looking for?

At Nomura our goal is to attract and develop exceptionally talented people who share our passion for individual excellence and our commitment to teamwork. We recruit graduates and interns with a high level of academic and extra-curricular achievement, who will be able to withstand the rigours of a rapidly changing, demanding but ultimately rewarding environment.

Fluency in English is essential.

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