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PRODUCTION SUPPORT ANALYST
Overview:
Working for Production Management within Infrastructure Services, a Technology department, to provide high quality support for Middle and Back Office business functions, where Production Management provide 24 X 7 support. Global Team Size 24, Local Team – 4.
Role / Principal Accountabilities:
A Middle Office Application Support position providing System Monitoring and Support, User Support, Ensuring systems are fit for purpose especially for Trade flow, Position, Cash, Reporting, Price, Settlement Systems and intraday and batch processing. Typical tasks involve Proactive Monitoring, investigating reconciliation breaks, trade booking Settlement and payment queries, job failures and general queries and Incident ownership through to completion.
3 Key Objectives critical to success of the role (if applicable):
This role requires strong problem solving skills, user support, good interpersonal skills, the ability to work under pressure, the provision of on call support out of hours and good communication skills. The candidate must be highly motivated and have a proven background of supporting in a high pressure and time critical environment.
Skills & Experience Required:
Understanding of Middle Office investment banking systems
Essential – Unix, basic shell scripting. Good understanding of trade lifecycle.
Desirable – SQL, preferably Sybase
Extra Notes (if applicable):
Ideally, the candidate should have good Settlement workflow knowledge.
This role has a wide user community covering front to back office and developers.
This role involves shift work covering the core hours 7am - 8pm:-
7am – 4pm, 8am – 5pm, 12:00pm – 8:00pm.
This role also involves being on-call 1 week in 5.
There will be some weekend work as when it is required.
We offer a very competitive salary; the range for this position is 90 - 110K along with benefit packages. To apply for a position, please send your resume and cover letter to nomurajobs@us.nomura.com. You must include the name of the position you are applying for in the subject heading of the email for your application to be considered.
Please contact us if you are visiting our offices and require any form of personal assistance or physical adaptations to be provided for your appointment. A member of staff will be happy to help.
FINANCE PRODUCTION SUPPORT ANALYST
Overview:
Working for Production Management within Infrastructure Services, a Technology department, to provide high quality support for Back Office business functions, where Production Management provide 24 X 7 support. Global Team Size – 12, Local Team - 2.
Role / Principal Accountabilities:
A Back Office Application Support position providing System Monitoring and Support, User Support, Ensuring systems are fit for purpose especially for Ledger and associated reporting, Regulatory reporting, Product Control, Pricing and intraday and batch processing. Typical tasks involve Proactive Monitoring, investigating reconciliation breaks, job failures and general queries and Incident ownership through to completion.
3 Key Objectives critical to success of the role (if applicable):
This role requires strong problem solving skills, user support, good interpersonal skills, the ability to work under pressure, the provision of on call support out of hours and good communication skills. The candidate must be highly motivated and have a proven background of supporting in a high pressure and time critical environment.
Skills & Experience Required:
Understanding of Finance/Back Office investment banking systems
Essential – Unix, basic shell scripting. Good understanding of basic accounting principles.
Desirable – SQL, preferably Sybase
Extra Notes (if applicable):
Ideally, the candidate would have worked in a back-office environment before.
This role has a wide user community covering front to back office and developers.
This role involves shift work covering the core hours 7:30am - 7pm:-
7:30am – 4:30pm, 10am – 7pm
This role also involves being on-call 1 week in 5.
There will be some weekend work as when it is required.
We offer a very competitive salary; the range for this position is 90 - 110K along with benefit packages. To apply for a position, please send your resume and cover letter to nomurajobs@us.nomura.com. You must include the name of the position you are applying for in the subject heading of the email for your application to be considered.
Please contact us if you are visiting our offices and require any form of personal assistance or physical adaptations to be provided for your appointment. A member of staff will be happy to help.
PEOPLESOFT GENERAL LEDGER SUPPORT ANALYST
Knowledge of PeopleSoft Financials 8.8 with 3 -6 years of functional experience in the following areas:
- Responsible for the investigation and clearing of daily suspense items
- Perform system maintenance for all chartfield values and tree structures
- Define and maintain combo edit rules
- Assist with the Year-End Closing process
- Design and update queries using Reporting Tools/SQL
- Review and analyze System to System reconciliations
Also, experience with AP, AM and PO would be helpful and has worked in a multi-currency environment.
Education: BS/BA in Accounting/Finance
Salary and title is opened based on experience.
ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT, PRICING ANALYST, FINANCE
The main responsibilities of the position include performing an independent verification of desk prices for various types of Agency and Non-Agency structured securities. This process occurs on a monthly basis, but a review of trading activity and related pricing will be a continuous process. Additional duties to be performed will include the preparation of a monthly summary report for senior management.
Primarily fixed income products:
Agency CMO tranches, including PACS, TACS, floaters, inverse floaters, IOs/POs
Pass-through’s & TBA securities
Non-Agency MBS, CMBS and ABS
The primary job requirement would be to perform an independent review of the positions held by Nomura's Securitized Products Desks. This will include using third party sources for price verification, but “hand-pricing” will occur in many cases utilizing Bloomberg, INTEX, Blackrock AnSer or other models. There will be situations where the pricing analyst will need to review cash flows and assumptions in developing an opinion of the reasonableness of the value of a security. The candidate needs a basic understanding of pricing methodologies, including knowledge of the assumptions for pricing the products listed above.
The person would sit within the Finance group, but will interact with Market Risk and the Trading Desk.
Skills Required
Seeking a motivated individual with working knowledge of securities pricing, Excel, PowerPoint and strong computer skills. Familiarity with Bloomberg and INTEX would be very useful. Experience in analyzing cash flow-based valuation models and the ability to analyze/estimate sensitivity of model parameters to pricing is a plus.
This position requires good interpersonal skills and an ability to work with both trading areas and support functions.
Education and Experience
Candidate should have Bachelor Degree (preferably in a quantitative field or Economics) with up to 3 years of experience in a pricing role.
We offer a very competitive salary and benefit packages. To apply for a position, please send your resume and cover letter to nomurajobs@us.nomura.com . You must include the name of the position you are applying for in the subject heading of the email for your application to be considered.
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