Nomura - Analyst - Equity Strategy

Roles & responsibilities :

- Join as an integral part of Asia ex Japan Equity Strategy research team.

- The role will involve supporting senior analyst based in Singapore.

- The successful candidate will be part of a highly-regarded team with a mandate for research on Asia Pacific equity strategy. The team produces regular written reports on a variety of discretionary subjects with a substantial amount of underlying analysis, and the candidate would be expected to contribute to the reports in terms of idea generation and analysis.

- Work on building financial/quantitative models and strategies for the team, which use company and/or macro-economic data; maintain these databases on a regular basis.

- Assist in writing full or parts of research reports; Build marketing presentations with the direction of senior analyst.

- Keep an eye on important regional/global news flow, which could likely have impact on equities in the region.

- The candidate should be able to work under pressure and amid tight deadlines and be able to respond to requests from internal and external clients (both fundamental and quantitative) in a flexible manner.

- The role offers the right candidate a potential to develop and grow knowledge of the workings of a financial market.

Skills required:

- Ideally some experience in equity/credit/quantitative research experience which demonstrates superior analytical ability; or demonstrated interest in pursuing financial markets research

- Degree in Finance/Economics/CA/MBA or Engineering/Statistics /Mathematics from a premier institute is mandatory

- Passion in analysing financial/stock markets or understanding

- Tenacity and perseverance to be able to work in fast paced environment

- Should be able to formulate a problem, undertake the required analysis and interpret the results

- Be able to think through complex issues and be comfortable dealing, sometimes, with ambiguity in an effort to find solutions

- Be highly numerate, with exceptional quantitative financial analysis and modelling skills

- Knowledge of MS Excel, Word, PPT

- Should be highly comfortable organising and analysing large amounts of data to find meaningful conclusions