Job Title:  Structuring

Nomura Overview:

Nomura is an Asia-based 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 three business divisions: Retail, Asset 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. 

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:

Global Markets Division: Based in Mumbai, the front-office team which works on a team extension model delivers pricing, modelling and risk management expertise to the Global Markets business. Founded as a centre of excellence, the group leads the way in price discovery and portfolio optimization techniques and is integral to the business’ aggressive revenue targets. The team is playing an integral role in structuring, pricing, risk management and new idea generation.

Business Overview:

The team works with structuring, sales and trading teams to deliver bespoke solutions to clients’ hedging / investment requirements in asset classes such as Foreign Exchange, Rates, Hybrids, Credit and Equity. It involves pricing structured payoffs, preparing marketing material for the sales/structuring team, suggesting new trade ideas to the sales team.

Position Specifications:

The FID Structuring team is looking for a tech professional who can work closely with the business to help set up, productionize, and maintain a robust automation infrastructure to meet its daily reporting, pricing and monitoring requirements. It would require a combination of a design-focused development attitude (to create scalable and flexible solutions) and a support temperament (prompt in diagnosing issues and fixing them). Her/his work would not just involve creation of robust technology solutions but also have a good understanding of the business goals and logic associated with the task at hand. While working closely with the Structuring team, it is expected that he/she would, over time, learn and pick up knowledge around the business itself.

Note that the position doesn't have a fixed boundary and would provide ample opportunity for any self-motivated individual to move up the ladder and understand the world of structuring gradually while providing support and development solutions to the business.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Designing, creating, testing, and deploying microservices-based apps utilizing Python programming language.
• Design and build robust web-based analytical toolsets – efficient, reusable and scalable solutions for daily business ‘reporting’ and ‘monitoring’ requirements
• Creating reusable code libraries and components that adhere to industry standards and best practices.
• Deep dive on new technologies / solutions in exploratory phase. Propose and demonstrate workable solutions through POCs
• Maintain and support the automation infrastructure
• Understand business requirements and exhibit good balance between speed of delivery v/s robustness of solutions.
• Strong work ethics and communication skills
• Able to collaborate internally with teams within Global Markets and across divisions

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