Middle Office Associate

Associate to join Nomura’s Middle Office focusing on cash equities operations. Role involves daily cash equities processing for the Australia market, managing trade lifecycle events (amendments, allocation, confirmation, settlements), leading reconciliation between front office systems and external counterparties, collaborating with the desk to resolve operational issues and optimize workflow, ensuring regulatory compliance and internal trade controls, supervising and developing junior members, driving process improvements and automation to enhance efficiency, interfacing with clients, brokers and custodians to resolve issues, and monitoring key operational metrics and risk exposures. Requires a Bachelor’s degree in finance/economics/maths/accounting or business-related subject, minimum 5 years in middle office (preferably cash equities), strong understanding of Asia equities, experience with major trading platforms and settlement systems, and proficiency in Excel and SQL. Nomura emphasizes leadership, strategic decision making, and DEI values, with an equal-opportunity stance.