Liquidity Business Analyst - Treasury (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.

Department Overview: Treasury Planning and Analysis comprises four key sub-areas; EMEA Liquidity Risk Policy (LRP), Data Assurance (Data), Regulatory Reporting & Controls (RRP) and Treasury Chief Operating Officer/Office (Treasury COO). Senior management takes a hands-on approach within the department, and is keen to reward hard work, enthusiasm and success. A willingness to constantly question established processes, and strive for improvements is actively encouraged, leading to an ever-changing and exciting environment.

Overview: The Business Analysts (BA) in the Treasury COO team are based onshore and offshore. The BA process involves regular project updates (daily/weekly) and monthly change control governance. The BA team are responsible for the gap analysis, requirements gathering, solution design, UAT and documentation of data and calculation system changes and transformation. The successful candidate will take responsibility for the delivery of numerous firm-wide data and calculation change and transformation initiatives and work programs to enhance overall front-to-back Treasury and Finance data and system capabilities. This role requires an individual with a mixture of Treasury SME (Subject Matter Expert), Data and BA (Business Analyst) skillsets.

Specific responsibilities:

• Lead front-to-back data and systems change and transformation for Treasury from data and calculation as well as from a reporting perspective, including taking necessary operational decisions and integration with other departments.
• Ensure changes are standardised and aligned for both internal and regulatory liquidity reporting.
• Support end to end testing (Dev, SIT & UAT).
• Prepare, present and recommend items for approval in technical design and data governance forums as well as Global Liquidity SteerCo including supporting artefacts as required.
• Engage with Liquidity policy and reporting SMEs, RRP (Recovery Resolution Programme), FiR (Funding in Resolution) team and FLM (Funding & Liquidity Management) team based in numerous locations globally.
• Work closely with upstream data providers to identify trusted data, validate and analyse any data changes & resolving data quality issues.
• Advancing tactical and strategic data quality remediation & validations holding upstream providers to account.
• Perform analysis into data quality issues root causes and new product/business process, ensuring all downstream implications are understood and supporting effective prioritisation.
• Monitor data quality controls associated with the inputs and outputs from the risk systems (this will include investigation of issues and reporting against the firm’s KRI framework).
• Supporting product SMEs in identifying the trusted source of data for liquidity reporting purposes, agreeing and checking mitigating controls with manual data providers.
• Build strong relationships with various departments including Front Office, Product Control, Risk, Legal, IT and Senior Management across the bank.

Key objectives critical to success:

• Ability to work to high degree of accuracy with logical and structured approach.
• Ability to self-review, identify issues and investigate / escalate appropriately.
• Willingness and ability to learn new tools (in-house and external) and deep dive into underlying codes/scripts/data.
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues and to build relationships within the department and across functions.
• Ability to document effectively key processes.

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

• Liquidity experience gained in an Investment banking environment performing front-to-back data and system change and transformation.
• Knowledge of PRA (UK Basel 3) & EBA (CRRII) Liquidity reporting rules (LCR, NSFR, ALMM, Asset Encumbrance, TWD, RRP, FiR).
• Familiarity with JFSA Basel III Liquidity rules would be a distinct advantage.
• Investment banking product knowledge (specifically Secured/ Unsecured Financing transactions & Derivatives) including front-to-back trade lifecycle knowledge and an understanding of their impact on Liquidity reporting.
• Ability to connect data to liquidity risk management.
• Strong analytical/numerical/problem solving/investigative skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent organisational and planning skills, with proven track record of delivery.
• Strong documentation skills (e.g. JIRAs, Confluence, Github), promoting concise and clear written deliverables.
• Exceptional drive, motivation and commitment and focus in operational excellence.
• Good IT Literacy, with a strong Data Analysis skillset.
• Familiar with Investment Banking systems and data management techniques.
• Familiarity with big data analytics/business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx) and data frameworks (e.g. Hadoop, MAPR, MinIO) would be a distinct advantage.
• Familiarity with coding tools (e.g. Python, SQL) would be a distinct advantage.
• Results focused in a pressurised environment with tight project deadlines.

Nomura is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to ensuring we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. We welcome all applications and do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender identity and gender expression, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.