Nomura - Associate - Securitized Products (3-5 yrs)

Roles and responsibilities:

- Analyze ABS collateral and deal structures and, where necessary, model cash-flows

- Price ABS bonds for both client/desk trades

- Contribute towards highlighting / publishing trade ideas to Sales and Traders

- Pre-trade modelling, monitoring, performance analysis

- Maintain various databases, pricing tools and deal models tracking deal performance, issuance, and market/macro trends; Design queries to analyze loan- and deal-level performance.

- Support Nomura Now web platform for ABS and contribute to weekly ABS strategy publications

- Regular and ad-hoc data and news gathering for articles and desk support

- Self-starter and ability to multi-task under pressure and meet various deadlines. Strong team player and a quick learner.

Skills required:

- Prior experience in US or EU Securitization market covering ABS/RMBS/CMBS sectors

- Strong understanding of financial markets and investment concepts

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills

- Creative problem solver; works well in a team

- Basic programming skills in languages such as VBA/Python