Liquidity Business Analyst - Treasury (9 months-Contract)

Job Code: 13560

Country: GB

City: London

Skill Category: Finance

Description:

Job title: Liquidity Business Analyst – Treasury

Job Type: Temporary (PAYE)

Contract Duration: 9 Months

Department: Finance

Location: London

Company overview

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. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com

Department Overview

Treasury Planning and Analysis comprises of four key sub-areas; EMEA Liquidity Risk Policy (LRP), Data Assurance (Data), Regulatory Reporting & Controls (RRP) and Treasury Chief Operating Officer/Office (Treasury COO). Treasury COO is a key component of the Finance Treasury Department.

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. Nomura offers a unique opportunity to gain broad experience across multiple products and business lines, supported by skilled professionals.

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 role is in the Treasury COO BA team, which forms part of the Treasury department of Nomura's UK Finance Division. 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. It will include working with colleagues in London, Tokyo, Singapore, US and Mumbai.

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

Ability to understand and challenge the detail

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 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).

Right to Work

The UK Government have taken steps to reduce net migration to the UK by limiting the number of overseas workers coming to the UK for employment. Please note that whilst we are able to consider applications from overseas workers from outside the UK (who require a Tier 2 Skilled Worker visa) we can only employ them if we can provide evidence that this is a genuine vacancy for a qualified role.

Diversity & Inclusion

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