LGL-Paralegal

Nomura; Mumbai; Vor Ort; INR 650.000 - 900.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Wellbeing support

Comprehensive wellbeing services

Inclusive benefits

Zusammenfassung

Nomura invites applications for an Analyst role within the Global Masters Documentation team in Powai, Mumbai. The position focuses on updating and maintaining ISDA, CSA, GMRA, and related master agreements, with emphasis on derivatives and risk management.

Ideal candidates have 1–2 years in finance with derivatives experience, strong English communication, and solid Excel skills. The role involves collaboration with regional teams and stakeholders across regions to ensure accuracy and timely

Qualifikationen

• 1–2 years in finance with derivatives background on swap, repo and stock lending master agreements.
• Experience analyzing legal opinions and related documents.
• Graduate with paralegal exposure or degree is preferred.

Aufgaben

• Work with Global Masters Documentation team and regional stakeholders.
• Update terms of master agreements (ISDA, CSA, GMRA, GSMLA) in the database.
• Generate and distribute management reports.
• Respond to queries from business and legal teams about master agreements.
• Interpret clauses and advise other teams; drive process improvements.
• Lead, review and delegate within the team; ensure risk awareness.
• Maintain proactive relationships with regional stakeholders.

Kenntnisse

Derivatives knowledge

Legal analytical skills

MS Excel

Attention to detail

English communication

Ausbildung

Graduate

Paralegal

Tools

MS Excel

Jobbeschreibung

Divisional Overview:

Powai LCC broadly covers the areas of Legal, Compliance and Conduct, and is responsible for building a robust risk and control framework. The Powai LCC teams support Nomura Powai entities, as well as LCC teams globally to ensure effective risk management of Legal, Compliance and Conduct related risks for the firm. Powai Legal comprises of the Corporate Legal and Transaction Legal functions, which provide advice and support on corporate, employment and transactional matters. The Offshore Legal team supports global teams on corporate and secretarial matters, Global Markets, and Masters documentation related requirements. Powai Compliance comprises of functions such as Core Compliance, Trade Surveillance, Electronic Communication Surveillance, Financial Crime Monitoring, Control Room & Disclosure Monitoring and Employee Compliance. The teams provide advisory and operations support to global / regional Compliance teams driven by global / regional policies and regulatory expectations.

What We Offer:

• We support employee wellbeing by ensuring a sense of purpose and belonging.
• We offer a comprehensive range of wellbeing services which allows employees to get access to the assistance they need at any point in their wellbeing journey.
• Our bespoke benefits support employees and their family’s holistic wellbeing and are inclusive of diverse identities and family structures.

Business Unit Overview:

The Global Masters Documentation Team is an extension of the:

• London based Transaction Legal Team which covers our Europe, Middle East & Africa business; New York based Legal Documentation Team which covers our Americas business; and
• Asia based Transaction Legal Team which covers our Asia Ex Japan (“AEJ”) business. Japan based Transaction Legal Team

The core function of the team is to maintain and update a database and status tracking system for Derivative Master agreements, repurchase agreements, stock-lending agreements and other financial agreements. The tracking of these agreements, from drafting through to execution, is of great importance, as is the ability to easily review the terms of the executed agreements. The information fed into the database and tracking system is used to monitor risk, collateral and other exposure by various departments within the firm.

The candidate will also be expected to analyse and provide information to the legal and business teams in response to queries relating to financial agreements, prepare reports and work on a variety of ad-hoc and regulatory projects

Position Specifications:

Corporate Title

Analyst

Functional Title

Analyst

Experience

1 - 2 years in the finance industry and derivatives background on swap, repurchase and stock lending master agreements, analysis of Legal opinions and

nettings

Qualification

Graduate, Paralegal

Role & Responsibilities:

Work as a part of the Global Masters Documentation team with the stakeholders in regions and provide assistance to the regional team, which is part of Transaction Legal

Updating critical terms of various master agreements (i.e. ISDA, CSA, Global Master Repurchase agreement and Global Master Securities Lending agreements) in the firm’s database

Generating and distribution of various management reports

Responding to queries received from the business and legal teams related to master agreements

Analyzing and interpreting clauses of master agreements and advising other business teams

Identifying areas of improvement and working on technology initiatives to increase efficiency and reduce manual intervention

Delegation of work within the team, assisting and supervising the work done by the team members, reviewing the work and also taking complete onus of the tasks

Developing and maintaining a proactive relationship with the stakeholders in all regions

Understanding roles, responsibilities, goals and processes to mitigate risks by ensuring that the team members are made aware about the changing business requirements, delegation of work, knowledge sharing sessions and to expertise on a particular process

Review the constitutional documents of a counterparty to identify entity type, jurisdiction, capacity to trade and netting

Drafting of notices to counterparty pursuant to mini-close out of a transaction in the repurchase / stock lending

Drafting of amendments to master agreement for money managers.

Role Requirements:

Mandatory

Domain / Technical

Excellent analytical skills, an eye for detail

Command over the English language (written and verbal) and excellent communication skills

Understanding team dynamics and encouraging good relationships

Timely escalations

MS Excel skills are important (at least ‘intermediate’)

Ability to apply practical solutions to problems

Managing discipline and dealing with conflict

Planning, problem solving and decision-making

Decent knowledge about derivative master agreements, confirmations

Interpersonal

Strong interpersonal and administrative skills, mature judgement and high ethical standards

Pro-active, with a mind set to drive efficiency

Ability to identify issues and knowing when to elevate

Critical thinking and detail orientated

Responsive, accountable

Team player

Nomura Leadership Behaviours:

Leadership
Behaviours

Description

Element

Exploring Insights & Vision

Comprehensively analyse the nature
of the problems we face and set our
focus toward the future vision

• Gather Intelligence
• Create a vision
• Identify an issue

Making Strategic Decisions

Analyse options and feasibility to resolve issues, in making
judgments and recommendations

• Identify countermeasures
• Assess feasibility
• Make a judgment

Inspiring Entrepreneurship in People

Promotes the vision and goals to others in such a way that inspires commitment and independent contributions

• Influence
• Inspire
• Commit

Elevating Organizational Capacity

Maximize organizational productivity through leadership development and
engagement

• Have an ownership in own development
• Support other‘s growth
• Encourage organizational growth

Inclusion

Respect diverse perspectives and
promote psychological safety
and the creation of a risk culture

• Foster psychological
  safety
• Encourage the active
  participation of all talent
• Foster a risk culture

We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees. We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, carer’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age.

*Applying for this role does not amount to a job offer or create an obligation on Nomura to provide a job offer. The expression "Nomura" refers to Nomura Services India Private Limited together with its affiliates.

*The benefits are subject to change and will be in accordance with Company’s policies as may be applicable from time to time).