Job Title:  Vice President, Quant Trader

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job title: Quant Trader

Corporate title: Vice President

Department: Global Markets

Location: Singapore

Company 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

Department overview

Nomura's Global Markets Division handles client transactions for financial institutions, corporates, governments and investment funds around the world. We act as market makers, trading in fixed income and equity securities, including currencies, interest rates and credit in cash, derivatives and structured products. We have taken market-leading positions across the globe by leveraging the strength of our talent, client relationships and technology.

By developing strong relationships with our client base through consistent interaction, independent advice and pre-eminent access to Asia, we have built a powerful global franchise across interest rates, currency and credit products. Our client services cover both high-volume flow products and carefully tailored structured solutions. We have adapted to the changing financial landscape to build a client centric focus differentiated by innovation, electronic and service excellence and market-leading derivatives capabilities.

Nomura provides 24-hour global coverage in the Foreign Exchange (FX) markets.  With clients placed at the heart of its strategy, Nomura FX offers the most comprehensive range of FX capabilities through dedicated professionals and market-leading technology in all major currencies and emerging markets.  Nomura’s main FX trading hubs are in London, Tokyo and Singapore.

Role description

Nomura seeks to recruit an VP level professional to work in the firm’s eFX Electronic Trading team. The role’s responsibilities include:

• Electronic Market Maker for Spot FX, NDF, Forwards and Swaps to the Nomura global client base and all internal Nomura departments.
• Quantitative analytics and development of all aspects of FX market making and FX algorithmic trading
• Work with the eSales team to help service their clients’ needs whilst building lasting relationships and franchise
• Produce steady revenue stream from market knowledge and responsible idea-driven calibration of pricing and hedging models
• Leverage client flow and market events for the benefit of the client base and Nomura.
• Work to the highest moral code and advancing Nomura’s ethics in all areas.

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required

• Bachelors’ Degree in a quantitative or engineering discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in electronic trading in FX Products.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in coding in Python, or Java or KDB 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to convey the ideas behind complex research in a clear and precise manner.
• Ability to manipulate and analyze complex, large scale, high-dimensionality data from multiple sources.
• Working experience with high-frequency financial time series is preferred.

Nomura competencies

Culture & Conduct

• Contributes to desired culture
• Aware of different values / styles
• Maintains own and holds others to high standards of behaviour
• Seeks to develop
• Aware of impact of own strengths / weaknesses
• Learns from experience

Client-Centricity & Business Acumen

• Demonstrates understanding of current market 
• Anticipates client needs
• Pays attention to detail, synthesizes accurately
• Sees problems, recommends solutions

Strategy & Innovation

• Articulates own contributions to divisional and firm-wide strategy
• Embraces and balances new / differing ways of thinking / working
• Makes decisions appropriate to their role, knows when and how to escalate
• Knows when / how to compromise
• Responds positively to changing needs and circumstances
• Is able to change direction quickly

Leadership & Collaboration

• Proactively participates in own and others' performance year
• Assists in recruiting and on boarding new team members
• Gives credit to others for positive contributions
• Builds collaborative and productive working relationships
• Provides on-the-job training to colleagues
• Provides and listens to constructive, timely and specific feedback to resolve conflict

Communication & Connectivity

• Adjusts communication style to suit topic / audience
• Balances listening / talking
• Communicates ideas and issues clearly and with consideration
• Questions to understand others’ views
• Is a proven and credible resource
• Builds internal network
• Willingly works with others to share information

Execution & Delivery

• Maintains positive commitment to results
• Takes on challenging assignments
• Executes priority actions on-time
• Keeps stakeholders updated, manages expectations
• Persists when confronted with resistance
• Seeks, listens to and accepts feedback
  
  

Diversity Statement

Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation.

DISCLAIMER:  This Job Description is for reference only, and whilst this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, it is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job.  The management reserves the right to revise the job and may, at his or her discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. 

Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer