Description:
Nomura Overview:
Nomura is an Asia-headquartered 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 four business divisions: Retail, Asset Management, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking), and Merchant 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:
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.
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:
Role & Responsibilities:
The primary responsibilities for the roles within the Prime Finance - Risk Team would include:
- Lead the technical design to build an end to end automated margin & risk controls platform.
- Work with senior stakeholders in Prime Front Office to understand and gather requirements on internal MIS, build specs and provide strategic direction on platform design.
- Collaborate with global Analytics team on agreeing specs and the build approach.
- Test new changes developed by Analytics team and validate these to be in line with the functional requirements.
- Trouble-shoot, run adhoc queries / analysis, build be-spoke reports, lead automation efforts on manual processes run by the wider Prime team.
- Mentor junior team members on technical design and solution approach.
Mind Set:
- Experience in both Python and ReactJS
- Experience of BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
- Experience with at least one other object oriented language (C++, Java, .NET, etc.)
- Very comfortable with the uses of Python libraries such as Pandas and NumPy for data wrangling.
- Experience in at least one Python web framework (Django, FastAPI, Flask, etc).
- Proficient in relational databases (SQL / Oracle) and design of structured data (normalization and de-normalization, indexing, etc.).
- Appropriate use of behavioural and unit testing, and continuous integration/delivery concepts.
- Experience working with Agile methodologies, TDD, etc.
- Comfortable in both a Windows and Linux environment.
- Proven track record in automating manual tasks / excel reports.
- Experience on working on large datasets / datalake
- Knowledge on various financial products like Equities, Fixed Income Securities, Convertible Bonds, Repo, Futures and Options.
- 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.
- Proficiency on KDB, Kx is highly desirable.
- NoSQL database technology
- Cloud experience (AWS, etc.)
- Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes.
- Knowledge / experience in Prime Brokerage and/ or Risk will be desirable.
