Job Title:  Trading Specialist

Corporate Title:  Analyst/Associate, Trading Specialist

Department:    Nomura Corporate Research & Asset Management – Investment Team

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $80k-140k * (see below footnote for additional compensation and benefits information).

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.

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Division Overview: NAM International

The international business brings together a legacy of investing in public and private markets on a global scale. Through active management, we deliver differentiated and innovative solutions across equities, fixed income, multi-asset, and private credit supported by a team of disciplined and tenured investment professionals. Building upon Nomura’s century long heritage, our teams are responsible stewards of clients’ capital. We approach everything we do with accountability, curiosity, and integrity to help clients across wealth and institutional channels navigate an ever-changing market, capture opportunities around the world, and reach long-term investment goals.

Role Description:

• Work with portfolio managers and credit analysts to implement investment decisions efficiently.
• Negotiate and execute the purchases and sales of high yield bonds, leveraged loans, and other credit instruments via Bloomberg messenger, phone, or electronic platforms (Marketaxess, TradeWeb, Bloomberg ALLQ)
• Build and maintain relationships with the sell-side counterparties, including sales, trading, and research.

• Provide real-time market color, flow updates, and price moves to the portfolio managers.

• Develop a deep understanding each account’s unique investment guidelines and apply that knowledge during the trade execution and allocation process. 

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, or a related field.

• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple requests from different groups (Investment, Compliance, Client Service, Operations) simultaneously.
• Demonstrate strong communication and collaboration skills in a fast-moving environment.
• Proficiency in Excel, Bloomberg AIM and electronic trading platforms is a plus.
• Basic understanding of credit fundamentals.

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

• Foster a culture of inclusion and psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a "Risk Culture" (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).

*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, discretionary awards and eligibility for commissions for applicable sales roles 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 in the U.S., 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