Job Title:  Quants

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.

Division Overview:

The Wholesale division within Nomura provides capital raising and advisory services, structuring, sales and trading of global securities, and distinctive investment research to global corporations, governments and financial institutions. Wholesale's mission is to be Asia's global investment bank, with depth at home complemented by a solid global platform.

Our business is client-centric and focused on markets and segments where we know we can add value. We aim to be globally competitive, delivering sustainable profits in those areas in which we choose to compete. Our offering is innovation- and knowledge-led, delivered in a "one firm" manner.

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.  The Powai operation is a critical part of the platform to support the growth of Nomura’s global business.

Business Unit Overview:

Algo Strategies team (Mumbai) is a part of the Global Quants team which is spread across London, New York, Singapore and Mumbai. The Mumbai team consists of people with highly numerate backgrounds such as B.Techs, M.Techs in electrical engineering, computer science engineering, Masters or PhDs in Statistics, Maths, Quantitative Finance and Physics. All members of the team are proficient in some programming language.

The Algo team supports various index structuring business verticals and directly works with traders and structurers on developing index calculators and scripting new indexes in the proprietary Reflex platform. The candidates will get exposure to index construction methodologies for various asset classes (Rates, FX, commodities, Credit) and will have to script these indexes in Minerva platform. 

In addition, the team also works in in developing systematic trading strategies and execution algorithms, derivative pricing and modelling of bond/bond derivatives. 

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