Job Title:  GM-Risk

Nomura Overview:

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 four business divisions: Retail, Asset Management, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking), and Merchant 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

Nomura Services India, (Powai) supports Nomura’s businesses around the world. Powai’ s world class capabilities in trading support, research, information technology, financial control, operations, risk management and legal support have played a key role in facilitating Nomura’s global operations and are an integral part of Nomura’s global expansion plans. The Powai operation is a critical part of the platform to support the growth of Nomura’s global business.

Nomura is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees (including promotion, transfers, assignments and beliefs). We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, career’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age. Our objective is to attract job applications and applications for development from the best possible candidates and to retain the best people

Division Overview:

Global Markets Powai team is an extension of regional Global Markets teams supporting Equities, Securitized Products, Rates, FX, and Credit. The division in Powai provides support for a range of activities like research, quantitative modelling, sales and trading support, pricing and balancing, product development and strategy. Powai operation is a critical part of the platform to support the growth of Nomura’s global business

Business Unit Overview:

Nomura’s Front Office Risk team covers various gamut of Risk and capital Management activities for the Global Markets business globally. Within Nomura India Powai Office, a sub-team with FO Risk team looks at business side design and development of Nomura’s strategic risk database named Unity Data Warehouse (UDW).

The Unity Data Warehouse (UDW) platform is a business critical system and has been adopted by a number of GM and Corporate functions including FO Risk, Credit & Market Risk and Finance as part of the GM Data Strategy of rationalising Trade, Risk and Valuation data feeding from GM systems into Corporate Functions. As a result of this extensive usage, there has been a substantial increase in data analysis, new data requests, testing, data quality checks and governance of UDW data from consumers of UDW data and also control functions – all of which are supported by the UDW BA team.  We are looking augment the UDW BA team with an additional business analyst to support this increased demand

Position Specifications:

Role & Responsibilities:

• Will work closely with the GM Business Data Officer & Special Projects team supporting the team leads
• Support business analysis for all requirements raised by UDW consumers and projects, including but not limited to:
  • Risk & Regulatory Projects
  • Investigation of data issues
  • Implementation of Data Quality checks and reconciliations
  • Creation of UDW JIRAs based on technical implementation of user requirements after consulting with UDW SMEs
  • Creating and maintaining documentation
  • Ad-hoc data analysis
• Analyse front to back data flows across front office systems and back office

Actively participate in UDW release cycles and testing

Mind Set:

Domain

Mandatory:

• Experience in a Risk Management related role would be preferred
• Strong analytical skills and ability to explain business requirements to IT teams in clear terms
• The person should have good communication skill as the job will involve a permanent interaction with the traders and all the support functions.

Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and coordinate across various system users.

Technical:

• SQL
• Python (desired)

The firm is an equal opportunity employer. The firm and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment based on race, religion or belief, gender, national or ethnic origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic / civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.