Nomura - Analyst/Associate - Structured Products

Role & Responsibilities:

Do you like assessing value and risk? Do you enjoy presenting and defending your view? Do you enjoy a fast-moving work environment? This is a role where you can expect to be stretched professionally but will enjoy broad exposure and learn a great deal. We're looking for someone like that who can:

- Work in close tandem with global trading desks facing dynamic markets and aggressive deadlines.

- Gain knowledge of the relevant global financial products and models developed by business.

- Answering client requests, which range from data requests to designing and implementing bespoke models.

- Perform trade modelling, strategy selection, and performance analysis.

- Build-up on infrastructure to implement new models as well as maintain the existing infrastructure.

- Work closely with sales, traders and structurers to enable new trades to be executed, post trade analysis, position keeping.

- Convert financial market knowledge into understandable investment opinions and make relative value recommendations.

- Remain current on market and commercial developments to help frame investment strategies.

- Helping senior management to prepare pitches for internal Investment committees, management packs.

Skill Required :

- Strong analytical and problem solving skills

- A strong commercial mentality with an entrepreneurial bias, a willingness to learn and an obsession with detail.

- Good written and oral communication skills, skills with an ability to assess information and make timely recommendations.

- An ability to collaborate internally across teams within Global Markets and across divisions.

- Proactive, self-motivated and result-focused

- The highest standards of professional ethics, leading by example to sustain Nomura's culture.

- Comfortable with databases/datasets and using technology to solve challenging problems.

- Proficiency in MS Excel, VBA, Python