EMEA Liquidity Manager (9 Months Contract)

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.

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

• Funding: Execution of the firm's unsecured financing activities and liquidity pool investment, together with currency management.
• Regulatory Liquidity Reporting & Data: Ensuring regulatory liquidity reporting is complete, accurate, and timely, and maintaining regulatory reporting control, governance, and escalation frameworks.
• 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 and management of compliance with liquidity metrics.
• Liquidity Stress Modelling: Develops and enhances internal stress testing framework and assumptions, scenario/sensitivity analysis, model back-testing, and testing and implementation of liquidity stress assumptions.

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

Key Objectives:

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

Essential Qualifications:

• 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 Qualifications:

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

Leadership Behaviours:

• 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 options for resolving problems and effectively prioritise 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 inclusion and psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a 'Risk Culture' (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).

Right to Work: The UK Government has taken steps to reduce net migration by limiting overseas workers. We can consider overseas applications requiring Tier 2 visas only if we can evidence a genuine vacancy for a qualified role.

Diversity & Inclusion: Nomura is an equal opportunity employer committed to reflecting the diversity of our communities. We welcome all applications regardless of age, disability, gender identity/expression, pregnancy/maternity, marriage/civil partnership, race, religion/belief, sex or sexual orientation. Contact us if you require assistance or reasonable adjustments.

Equal Opportunity: Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer.