EMEA Liquidity Manager (Vice President)

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment 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.

Treasury is an established function within the Finance division at Nomura, with responsibility for all aspects of unsecured funding and to manage liquidity and funding in accordance with board-mandated stress tests and in compliance with regulatory liquidity requirements. The department has teams across Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, New York, Singapore, and Mumbai. The department is organised into the below functions:

• Funding – execution of the firm’s unsecured financing activities and liquidity pool investment, together with currency management.
• Regulatory Liquidity Reporting & Data – responsible to ensure regulatory liquidity reporting is complete, accurate, and timely. Design, implement & maintain regulatory reporting control, governance, and escalation frameworks.
• Liquidity Management – Regional Liquidity Management - covers regional aspects of liquidity risk management including liquidity analysis, Policy and framework reviews, Contingency Funding Plan, ILAAP and other regulatory requirements.
• Liquidity Strategies, Forecasting and Analytics – covers forecasting & management of compliance with liquidity metrics.
• Liquidity Stress Modelling – develop and enhance internal stress testing framework and assumptions, scenario/sensitivity analysis, model back-testing, testing and implementation of liquidity stress assumptions.

The individual will be a member of the Regional Liquidity Management team, supporting the ongoing compliance with local regulatory requirements. The individual will be responsible for the establishment and integration of the Bank of England Supervisory Statement (SS5/25) ‘Enhancing banks’ and insurers’ approaches to managing climate-related risks’ into existing liquidity management framework ensuring full compliance while maintaining optimal liquidity positions. The individual will work closely with Liquidity Stress Modelling and Risk Department.

Key objectives critical to success:

• Establish robust climate-liquidity risk identification, measurement, and monitoring capabilities.
• Successfully integrate climate considerations into ILAAP and liquidity stress testing.
• Close partnership with Global Treasury team, in particular Liquidity Stress Modelling, as well as Risk Department (Model Validation, Treasury Risk Management, and Risk Stress Testing Group).

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

Essential:

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Mathematics, Engineering or equivalent field.
• Experience in Treasury or Liquidity Risk.
• Investment banking product knowledge and understanding of their impact on Liquidity reporting.
• Strong analytical/numerical skills.
• Ability to influence across varying levels of seniority within Finance and Risk.
• Impactful personality with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Good IT Literacy, with a strong Excel/Data Analysis skillset and experience with tools/programming languages such as Python, Alteryx, Tableau and Power BI.
• Results focused in a pressurised environment with tight deadlines.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of liquidity best practices.
• Familiarity with Climate Risk particularly potential impact on liquidity.

Nomura competencies:

• Explore Insights & Vision - Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a clear vision and direction for the future.
• Making Strategic Decisions - Evaluate all the options for resolving the problems and effectively prioritize actions or recommendations.
• Inspire Entrepreneurship in People - Inspire team members through effective communication of ideas and motivate them to actively enhance productivity.
• Elevate Organizational Capability - Engage proactively in professional development and enhance team productivity through the promotion of knowledge sharing.
• Inclusion - Respect DEI, foster a culture of psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a 'Risk Culture' (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).

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