Governance & Regional Business Management Officer
Nomura · Singapore
Company overview
Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment 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. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com
Job Title: Governance & Regional Business Management Officer
Corporate Title: Executive Director
Department: Corporate Strategy
Location: Singapore
Licensed Role: No
About the Function
The Governance Office operates under the purview of the NAPH Chief Executive Officer and supports effective regional business management, governance and oversight. Working with businesses, country leadership and corporate functions, the Office helps translate regional priorities into coordinated action, maintains management governance arrangements and supports timely decision-making and escalation.
The Office coordinates the NAPH Executive Management Committee (NEMC) and NAPH Operating Committee (NOC), supports governance across the regional platform and contributes to a strong conduct and risk culture.
Role Overview
Reporting to the Head of Governance, the Executive Director will lead the day-to-day delivery of assigned governance and regional business-management activities. The role combines senior committee secretariat leadership, governance framework implementation, regional initiative coordination.
The successful candidate will turn agreed priorities into practical plans, provide constructive challenge, produce decision-ready reporting and drive follow-through across businesses and functions. This is a senior individual-contributor role requiring independent judgement and influence, with authority exercised within agreed mandates and delegated limits.
Role Description
1. Regional business management and initiative delivery
- Support the Head of Governance in translating CEO and regional management priorities into delivery plans with clear scope, accountable owners, milestones and success measures.
- Lead assigned cross-functional projects and workstreams; coordinate inputs from businesses, country management, the CFO and corporate functions, and resolve or escalate delivery dependencies.
- Maintain a consolidated view of assigned initiatives, including progress, resources, risks, dependencies and benefits; prepare concise analysis and recommendations to support prioritisation and management decisions.
- Monitor execution of agreed decisions and commitments, challenge slippage and escalate material delivery or control concerns to the Head of Governance and relevant sponsors.
2. Governance frameworks and control coordination
- Work closely with the Head of Governance, General Counsel and senior management to lead and continuously evolve the firm’s regional governance frameworks, policies, committee structure and operating standards.
- Oversee senior management governance structures, including committee mandates, terms of reference, escalation protocols and decision-making authorities
- Lead governance reviews and assessments to identify gaps, inefficiencies, or misalignment with regulatory expectations, group standards and industry practices
- Partner with Legal, Compliance and Risk to ensure governance structures remain aligned with applicable regulatory requirements
- Oversee the quality and consistency of governance-related reporting to senior executives, board committees, group stakeholders, regulators and auditors.
- Lead the day-to-day secretariat for NEMC and NOC, partnering with the Head of Governance and committee chairs to maintain effective, well-controlled forums.
- Prepare accurate, concise minutes recording material discussions, decisions, rationale where appropriate, accountable owners and deadlines; coordinate review and approval.
- Maintain action and decision logs, follow up commitments, escalate unresolved matters and preserve complete, appropriately controlled records for management, audit and regulatory review.
- Periodically assess committee effectiveness and recommend improvements to reporting quality, meeting discipline and decision follow-through.
Skills, experience, qualifications, and knowledge required:
- 15+ experience in investment banking or financial services, including governance, business management, a CEO/COO office or transformation.
- Demonstrated hands-on leadership of senior management committee secretariats, including agenda planning, executive papers, minute writing, action tracking and confidential record management.
- Track record of delivering cross-functional initiatives in a complex regional or matrix organisation, with strong project discipline and the ability to influence without direct authority..
- Demonstrated experience dealing financial products and their end-to-end front-to-back (F2B) lifecycle—including trade execution, booking, risk management, operations, settlement and associated controls—is strongly preferred.
- Strong analytical judgement and executive communication skills; ability to synthesise complex issues, provide constructive challenge and engage credibly with senior stakeholders, auditors and, where appropriate, regulators.
- High standards of integrity, discretion, accuracy and ownership, with the ability to manage competing priorities and sensitive information.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant professional qualification or experience. A postgraduate degree or relevant governance, risk or project-management qualification is advantageous.
Nomura Leadership Behaviours
- Explore Insights & Vision: Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a clear vision and direction for the future.
- Making Strategic Decisions: Evaluate all the options for resolving the problems and effectively prioritize actions or recommendations.
- Inspire Entrepreneurship in People: Inspire team members through effective communication of ideas and motivate them to actively enhance productivity.
- Elevate Organizational Capability: Engage proactively in professional development and enhance team productivity through the promotion of knowledge sharing.
- Inclusion: Respect DEI, foster a culture of inclusion and psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a "Risk Culture" (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).
Diversity Statement
Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities, and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, 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.
Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer