Your Career at Nomura Holdings, Inc.

Nomura is creating a new way of doing business: one in which diversity and inclusion is embedded into its DNA. But it knows that building a culture that is truly diverse and inclusive can’t be done overnight. Which is why the firm is constantly reviewing its benefits and policies as it strives to create a true meritocracy, one in which barriers and structural friction points are removed. Nomura is committed to doing things differently, but realizes that it has to be a two-way conversation. It encourages every new joiner to take part in this dialogue.

Globally, Nomura employs more than 100 different nationalities across 34 different countries. In order for it to become the new force in global banking, it knows that it has to attract the widest range of people. Equality, diversity and inclusion resonate differently across the bank’s regions, so it aims for a global approach that is regionally focused.

Employee networks - Nomura encourages its people to connect, communicate and build lasting relationships across boundaries and in diverse teams.

Women in Nomura - WIN is committed to opening the debate for all employees, men as well as women, on the value of women in business.

LGB network – Nomura aims to support lesbian, gay and bisexual professionals and gives them a platform to perform to their highest potential.

Employee Life & Families – ELF is an employee-driven network that aims to provide information, awareness and support to all on family and life-management matters – on topics ranging from ‘Communicating with Kids’ to ‘Effective Parenting’.

Training - EMEA

Nomura’s graduates benefit from business overview presentations, structured classroom seminars and internal training delivered by business representatives. All employees on its global markets and investment banking programs receive additional FSA training, technical coaching and training on Nomura-specific software.

If you choose to join its investment banking division - as either an Analyst or Associate – you’ll also learn about a variety of business topics, via a series of weekly sessions delivered by senior bankers. You’ll also attend soft skills training designed to hone your natural presenting, negotiating and relationship building abilities.

Graduates on the corporate infrastructure finance program will have the opportunity to study for CIMA or ACCA, while those in operations will be able to study for the IAQ. Graduates on the technology programme, meanwhile, will benefit from a wide range of software, development and technical training.

Training - US

All employees receive technical coaching and training on Nomura-specific software. Every graduate program includes:

• Business overview presentations
• Structured classroom seminars
• Internal training delivered by business representatives
• Team-building events with global graduate colleagues

Investment banking and global markets:

When you join Nomura as an Analyst or Associate, you’ll embark on a program of structured training to prepare you for your role. This will start with an orientation in the New York office followed by a global training program, which will give you the opportunity to travel to London for four weeks. The full-time program begins in the summer when, after a formal placement process, you will be placed directly on a desk.

As a member of the bank’s investment banking division, you’ll gain an in-depth knowledge of the industry and attend soft skills training. This is designed to hone your natural presenting, negotiating and relationship-building abilities.

Corporate infrastructure:

As an Analyst joining Nomura’s corporate infrastructure division, you’ll benefit from training in New York before starting your full-time program in the summer. If your role is in Finance or Operations, you’ll have the opportunity to rotate to more than one area of the business during your program. If you are based in technology or risk, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge by focusing on one specific area of the division.

Whichever area you join, you’ll benefit from ongoing performance feedback. As well as access to division-specific educational sessions designed to aid your professional development, you’ll also find that Nomura’s managers spend time focusing on your career progression. They will spend a lot of time coaching and mentoring you, to help you realize your full potential.

Training – Asia

All Nomura employees receive FSA training, technical coaching and training on Nomura-specific software. All graduate programs include:

• Business overview presentations
• Structured classroom seminars
• Internal training delivered by business representatives
• Team-building events with global graduate colleagues

Whichever area you join, you’ll benefit from ongoing performance feedback, as well as access to division-specific educational sessions designed to aid your professional development. Nomura’s managers will spend a lot of time coaching and mentoring you, to help you realize your full potential.

Benefits

Salaries at Nomura are competitive and reflect the commitment it expects from its people; they also attest to its position at the forefront of the investment banking industry. In addition, there is an array of benefits:

• Private medical insurance - AXA PPP Healthcare is offered to all employees. There is also the option to have a health screening with Blossoms Healthcare (free of charge after three months)
• Season ticket loans – interest-free advance of up to £5,000 to fund travel to and from work
• Onsite gym - a brand-new, state-of-the-art gym at Angel Lane will be ready from December 2010
• Life assurance - open to all permanent employees
• Personal accident insurance - available to all employees of Nomura in the UK as a voluntary benefit (ie, deducted from your net pay)

Corporate Citizenship - EMEA

Nomura wants to give something back to its local communities, and so develops long-term partnerships and lasting connections by investing financial resources with support from its people. In its London offices alone, 35 per cent of staff currently volunteer, benefiting over 21 organisations. The bank was recently awarded a Business in the Community award for its educational work with schools and community groups in London.

Nomura’s award-winning partnerships include:

• Schools programs – Nomura works with Oaklands Secondary School, in Tower Hamlets, and Southwark Park Primary School, in Bermondsey. Its partnerships help develop aspirations, support learning and reward achievement for students and teaching staff alike.
• UK Charity partnership - Every two years, Nomura’s people vote online for their UK charity of choice. Its current partner is the Teenage Cancer Trust. Nomura was the first-ever title sponsors of the charity’s concert series at the Royal Albert Hall, which sold out in record time and raised an astonishing £1.5m.


• The Nomura Charitable Trust - The Nomura Charitable Trust was established in 2009 to build philanthropic giving across the region. The Trust only considers organisations referred by Nomura employees, and funds charities that focus on educational achievement, employability potential and aspirations of disadvantaged children and young people.


• Investment in Sports – Nomura employees can also support young people learning to play sport. The bank sponsors the Oxford v Cambridge Varsity Match and funds the Nomura Rugby Academy, which offers pupils coaching sessions from professional rugby coaches and Nomura volunteers from the five Olympic host boroughs.


• Matched Giving program – Nomura will match donations up to a cap when an employee donates to a UK registered charity.

Environment

As well as contributing to its communities, Nomura has made a commitment to a number of environmental conservation initiatives. It is proud to have achieved Environmental Management Certification twice over, and to have won several City of London Clean City Platinum Awards for its recycling and waste reduction efforts. The bank has also made adjustments to how its offices use power – ie, installing presence detectors so that office lights turn off automatically after 15 minutes of inactivity, and using state-of-the-art systems that recycle rainwater to flush the toilets.

Corporate Citizenship – Asia

Nomura is actively involved with local communities throughout Asia, and is committed to various educational, cultural, artistic and social welfare activities. These include: the Community Chest, a public entity in Hong Kong established to assist social welfare facilities; The Australia Ballet; as well as activities that promote friendship between Asian countries and Japan throughout the region.

Nomura also helps educate young people in the financial and securities market by holding a series of seminars in selected universities, including the University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. In China, Nomura has visited Sun Yat-sen University, Xiamen University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

In 2004, the bank’s Asian offices jointly collected and donated over one million HK dollars as part of the Tsunami relief effort. It was the first joint CSR activity by Nomura’s Asian network, spanning offices in Australia, Bangkok, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, Philippine, Singapore and Taiwan.

In 2006, Nomura participated in the "Run-up Two IFC Charity Race 2006", organized by the Hong Kong Community Chest. All funds raised were used to help people with disabilities and help them integrate into the community.

Most recently, Nomura made a donation to the Asian Prevention of Blindness Association, an NPO that supports a Japanese eye doctor who voluntarily helps cataract patients in Vietnam to regain their eyesight while also providing training for local doctors.