Job Title:  Credit Risk Specialist (Associate)

Job title: Credit Risk Management

Corporate Title: Associate

Department: Risk

Location: New York, New York                                                 

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $100,000 and $150,000/year*

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

Department overview:

Credit Risk Management is looking to hire an Associate focusing on Hedge Funds/Private Equity transactions.  Credit Risk Management (CRM) is a key function in protecting and making sure we take prudent risk for Nomura.  The group evaluates transactions and approves, rejects, or modifies them considering the credit quality.  The department also assigns internal credit ratings; establishes and manages credit risk limits in accordance with the risk tolerance

Role description:

• Perform client due diligence and financial analysis and summarize in written credit approval memos and reviews
• Review and approve trading activity, margin requirements and structural enhancements to transactions
• Establish credit exposure appetite across traded products utilizing firm risk models
• Negotiate legal documentation for traded products
• Assess creditworthiness of clients and assign appropriate internal credit ratings
• Maintain updated credit research on a portfolio of clients
• Point of escalation for analysts and help maintain desk interface
• Produce high-quality analysis and management reporting
• Participate in firm wide projects, especially technology development projects

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

• 4+ years relevant experience and understanding of market fundamentals within funds space across trading strategies.
• Experience in both developed and emerging market transactions / structures preferred
• Credit/Market risk experience along with knowledge of a range of traded products required
• Candidates should have accounting and corporate finance course work
• Advising and/or assisting teams in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment with the ability to prioritize and complete tasks according to project needs
• Track record of guiding multi-disciplinary teams across complex engagements with multiple workstreams and stakeholders
• Leveraging effective business writing and verbal skills, including leveraging negotiation and consensus-building to achieve results
• Demonstrating business and project management acumen, executive presence and professionalism
• Proficient in Excel, Powerpoint and Word. Data analysis skills and tools are desired.

Nomura competencies

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 psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a "Risk Culture" (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).
  
  

This role offers competitive compensation including base salary, bonus, and benefits package commensurate with experience level.

The successful candidate will combine technical expertise with outstanding stakeholder management skills to effectively navigate complex business and regulatory environments.

*base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, corporate and functional title and duties, job-related knowledge and advanced degrees, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors”.

Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer