Associate - Credit Risk Reporting - Risk Management

**Company overview**

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**Function Overview**

The Credit Risk Management group is responsible for the credit analysis and monitoring of Nomura International counterparties. Our objectives are outlined below:

- Credit Counterparty Risk - to protect the capital base of NIP plc against credit losses due to a counterparty default. This is achieved by approving appropriate credit limits and monitoring exposures against these limits
- Underwriting risk - to advise Senior and Divisional Management of the potential credit risk of underwriting proposed debt or equity issues
- Inventory Risk - to monitor inventory positions against approved credit policy
- Transactions - to advise on the suitability of proposed principal investments assessing both valuation and credit measures in a combined report and to monitor the performance of such investments and report such performance in a formal quarterly report.

Credit Risk Reporting are a global team that reside within Credit Risk that are responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of all reporting and dashboards used by Credit Risk Officers in their monitoring the firms Credit Risk exposure.

**Role overview**:
**Responsibilities**:
Working within the Credit Risk department you will be tasked with global reporting deliveries and provide support to the firm wide initiative of process automation. The role would be focused on the following:

- Working with Credit Risk Officers directly in the requirements gathering, design and implementation of new content or changes to existing content, as well as ongoing maintenance, validation and adherence to reporting governance
- Design and production of committee presentations and MI that deliver key messages coherently to regional and global senior management
- Collaborate with Risk IT to ensure that reporting tools, systems and data models are effective for Credit Risk reporting purposes and assist them in the migration to strategic platforms and decommission of legacy technology
- Work closely with regional and offshore credit risk infrastructure to understand exposure movements, risk exclusions and adjustments that are applied to the data sets
- Participate in change initiatives to ensure that proposed changes are not negatively impacting reporting through the preparation of test plans and both functional and regression testing
- Deliver on adhoc Regulatory and data requests as well as performing analysis
- Transition end user computing to alternate strategic tools to find efficiencies in daily production and reduce the operational risk footprint of the group

**Job Requirements**:
Essential
- Bachelor’s/undergraduate University degree
- 2-4 years of relevant experience in Credit Risk reporting or a regulatory reporting environment in a financial services institution
- Strong financial product knowledge and an good working knowledge of standard Credit Risk measurement techniques
- Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to face off to stakeholders of varying levels of seniority
- Able to work well under pressure either individually or collaborating across diverse groups within the organization
- An ability to multi-task between BAU activities and project work whilst maintaining a clear view of the firms priorities
- Advanced Excel/VBA and proficient in either Power BI or Tableau

Desirable
- Programming capability in Python or R
- Proficient knowledge of relational databases and data modelling e.g. SQL Server
- Previous experience using data manipulation tools such as Alteryx
- Static Report building tools such as SAP Business Objects or SSRS
- Knowledge of Market Risk, sensitivities and risk measures

**Diversity Statement**

Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities, and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation.

**DISCLAIMER**:This Job Description is for reference only, and whilst this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, it is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. The management reserves the right to revise the job and may, at his or her discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.**
- Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer**TSID: 1221460