Principal Business Analyst

Department overview:

Wholesale Data Services and Operations Technology supports two major function with Nomura -

• It provides foundational architectural solutions for market and reference data that powers Nomura's business. This team is an integral part of Nomura that is responsible for developing and maintaining systems that manage acquisition and distribution of data for the entire organization including front office, middle office, back office, risk, finance and various AI based analytics systems.

• It is responsible for supporting trade settlement and transaction processing technology platform. This team provides day-to-day support for the middle office, operations and regulatory users, and manages vendor and in-house applications. WO IT also owns the applications that provide trade settlement data services to other technology teams from Operations, Finance, Risk, Regulatory and Compliance.

Job Description:

The selected person would be a part of Cross Product Team

• Wholesale Data Services & Operations Technology focusing on Regulatory business function. The roles and responsibilities are as follows:

• Lead a team of 5 Tech BA members to manage the regulatory deliveries.

• Maintain a running view of all prioritized and backlog items. Manage regular communication with stakeholders, users and internal team about deliveries and Risk & issues.

• Build Front to back BA team.

• Liaise with Reg Tech to identify current logic for respective Jurisdiction.

• Identify Front office/Trade Service X-path's Impacted.

• Validate conditionality on linked/associated fields - §verify system implementation aspect for linked/associated fields.

• Provide outbound x-paths.

• FSD Creation / Sign Off

• Advise data attributes FO should use for generating PDM/FpML messages.

• Advise data attributes consumers of Trade Service to pick data for processing.

Mandatory Skills:

• 15 + years of experience as a BA / PM

• Mandatory knowledge of Financial Products especially OTC/FX Derivatives

• Experience in driving Regulatory projects like BCBS, EMIR, Etc.

• Knowledge of Risk Management Principles

• VaR calculation, Simulation and Modelling.

• Knowledge of Trade Life cycle especially the trade capture / booking in front office and Risk calculation etc.

• Strong problem-solving experience in a technical environment

• Candidate should be a quick learner. Should have demonstrated in the past quick learning capabilities.

• Strong listening, problem solving, analytical skills and excellent communication skills (both spoken and written English)

• Must be a team player with prior experience in working in a global development team

• Self-motivated individual, quality and improvement focused

Desirable Skills:

• Working knowledge of Python

• Experience in any Continuous Integration and Build environment.

• Industry exposure of Investment banking