Nomura - Analyst/Associate - Prime Analytics - Global Market

Business Overview :

Nomura's Prime Services is a fully integrated platform offering global securities lending, innovative financing solutions, execution excellence, and industry expertise. Our clients include leading institutional asset managers, hedge funds, and other market participants across the globe. Leveraging the entire firm, Nomura Prime Services is committed to providing our clients with the highest level of service, support, and technology.

Position Specifications:

Experience: 4 - 7 years

Qualification: B.E. (Comp) / B.Tech.

Role & Responsibilities:

The primary responsibilities for the roles within the Prime Analytics Team would include:

- Build dashboards / reports on the existing MIS platform (SQL / Power BI / Python)

- Work with stakeholders across regions to document requirements, design solutions and build analytic reports or tools for client risk, exposure and stress analysis.

- Automation of existing / new excel reports for various Prime Finance functions like Equity Finance, Business Management, Risk/ Margin.

- Daily monitoring of production reports automated, trouble-shooting / fixing issues and catering to small enhancements.

- Generate decks/ presentations providing business updates/ business strategy for the Prime senior management.

- Run projects to work with various teams like IT, other corporate functions to drive the implementation for strategic initiatives to build a better, flexible MIS.

- Help drive firm level programs on automation, digitization and act as a subject matter expert representing Prime on these forums.

Mind Set:

Mandatory :

- Proficient in Python, and very comfortable with the uses of libraries such as pandas and numpy for data wrangling

- Proficient in relational databases (SQL / Oracle) and design of structured data (normalization and de-normalization, indexing, etc.).

- Experience of BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau.

- Proven track record in automating manual tasks / excel reports.

- Strong logical, analytical and problem solving skills are a must.

- Strong team player, a quick learner and willing to put extra effort to build stakeholder relations and garner business knowledge.

- Self-starter and ability to multi-task and meet various deadlines.

Desired :

- Experience with at least one other object oriented language (C++, Java, .NET, etc.)

- NoSQL database technology

- Cloud experience (AWS, etc.)

- KDB+ experience

- Knowledge on various financial products like Equities, Fixed Income Securities, Convertible Bonds, Repo, Futures and Options is desirable.