Nomura
Liquidity Business Analyst - Treasury (9-Month Contract)
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#Liquidity Business Analyst – Treasury
Job Type: Temporary (PAYE) Contract Duration: 9 Months Department: Finance Location: London
About Nomura
Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions, connecting markets East & West. The firm serves individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, it is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, delivering creative solutions and thoughtful leadership.
Department Overview
Treasury Planning and Analysis
The Treasury Planning and Analysis team includes the following areas:
- EMEA Liquidity Risk Policy (LRP)
- Data Assurance (Data)
- Regulatory Reporting & Controls (RRP)
- Treasury Chief Operating Officer/Office (Treasury COO)
Nomura encourages a hands-on, interactive management style. The department rewards hard work, enthusiasm, and success, along with a willingness to question established processes and drive improvements. It fosters an ever-changing yet exciting environment that allows candidates to gain broad experience across multiple products and business lines while collaborating with skilled professionals.
Role Overview
The Business Analyst role in the Treasury COO team involves both onshore and offshore responsibilities. Key elements of the role include:
- Regular project updates (daily/weekly) and monthly change control governance
- Conducting gap analysis, requirements gathering, solution design, UAT, and documentation for data and calculation system changes
- Developing initiatives and work programs to enhance Treasury and Finance data and system capabilities, both front-to-back
The Liquidity Business Analyst will lead the delivery of data and calculation change/transformation globally, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, supporting testing, and standing up to technical/governance forums.
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Specific Responsibilities
Day-to-Day Tasks
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Lead front-to-back data and system transformation in Treasury, ensuring operational alignment with both internal and regulatory liquidity reporting
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Facilitate and standardize reporting for liquidity oversight as well as supporting fixes and changes across internal processes
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Support end-to-end testing (Development, System Integration, User Acceptance Dev, SIT, UAT)
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Prepare materials for approval in technical design and data governance forums, including Global Liquidity SteerCo, ensuring supporting documentation is ready
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Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including:
- Liquidity policy/research analysts & reporting SMEs
- Recovery Resolution Programme (RRP) team
- Funding in Resolution (FiR) team
- Funding & Liquidity Management (FLM) team
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Coordinate with upstream data providers to validate data integrity, analyze changes, and resolve risk issues
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Drive strategic/tactical data quality improvements, holding data originators accountable and ensuring operations align
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Investigate data quality and reporting problems, dissect root causes, and support analysis as part of a KPI framework
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Engage with internal stakeholders, including Front Office, Product Control, Risk, Legal, and IT teams
Key Objectives
- Excellent analytical abilities, working with logical and structured rigor for problem-solving
- Proactive self-review and issue escalation
- Technical adaptability (mastering new tools/scripts), including understanding data/raw code dependencies
- Effective communication— building relationships internally and across departments
- Comprehensive documentation (e.g., JIRAs, Confluence, GitHub)—concise and actionable knowledge-sharing
Skills & Requirements
Preferred Experience & Knowledge
- Liquidity experience within investment banking, specializing in data and system change/transformation
- Strong understanding of:
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UK Basel III reporting requirements (LCR, Financial Sector Reporting (FSR), Securitisation & MREL (ALMM), RWP, Asset Encumbrance, Fault Lines/Contiguous Project)
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EBA CRR II requirements for liquidity reporting (LCR, NSFR, RWP)
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JFSA Basel III (liquidity-related frameworks)
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Familiarity with investment banking products—secured financing, unsecured financing, and derivatives—including knowledge of the trade lifecycle and liquidity impact reporting
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Connecting data and liquidity risk strategies
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Strong analytical, numerical, and investigative skills
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Advanced presentation techniques
Technical & Industry Skills
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Preferred proficiency in:
- SQL/Python scripting
- enterprise-grade business intelligence tools (Tableau, Power BI)
- Big data platforms (Alteryx, Hadoop, MapR, MinIO)
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Additional Notes
Right to Work Considerations
Due to UK government policies limiting net migration, Nominura can generally only hire candidates permanently living in the UK for qualified roles.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
Nomura values diversity. We prohibit discrimination based on age, disability, gender identity & expression, pregnancy/maternity, marital/civil partnership status, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation. Nominura will arrange adjustments for candidates requiring accommodations and encourages applications from all backgrounds.
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