Nomura - Analyst - Prime Services - Margin & Risk Control (0-2 yrs)

Roles and responsibilities:

- Responsible for the day-to-day activities of Mumbai Prime Brokerage - Front Office Control hub supporting Asia/Europe/US.

- Build, monitor and implement controls to ensure correct margin and excess/deficit calculations to Prime clients.

- Run daily checks on client setups, build reconciliations using data from reference data, trade booking and margin & collateral systems.

- Build, monitor and run daily control reports and dashboard to check day-over-day swings on key metrics.

- Write daily commentary on control breaks, exceptions and swings.

- Co-ordinate with Prime Risk team and support teams like Collateral Operations, IT and Middle Office to get the breaks investigated and resolved.

- Report and escalate unresolved issues and breaks to Prime senior management.

- Work with Analytics team to test new controls on the IT infrastructure.

- Coordinate with support teams to ensure that their set of controls are duly monitored and reported.

- Participate in team calls and represent/explain control breaks and resolution.

Skills required:

- Post Graduate Degree/MBA, CFA or equivalent finance major or similar

- Strong knowledge of Equities, Equity Derivatives, Convertible Bonds, Fixed Income, Repo, and Futures and Options.

- MS Excel to expert level.

- Working knowledge of SQL, Python.

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

- Good general knowledge & understanding of current macro-economic trends.

- Strong logical, analytical and problem solving skills are a must.

- Strong team player, a quick learner and willing to put extra effort to build client / stakeholder relations and garner business knowledge.

- Self-starter and ability to multi-task and meet various deadlines.

- Ability and openness to learn new technologies and work on new platforms.