Principal Business Analyst

Job Description

Job Title: Principal Business Analyst Job Code: 9628 Country: IN City: Mumbai Skill Category: IT\Technology Description: 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 daytoday support for the middle office, operations and regulatory users, and manages vendor and inhouse 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 the Trade Service platform. The roles and responsibilities are as follows: Performing Business Analysis activities working as part of a global team on front to back trade flow lifecycle projects and mandatory deliverables for the Trade Service platform Responsibility for delivering strategic changes to implement and maintain Trading Controls/Validation rules and enable business users to manage the exceptions workflow Gathering, agreeing and documenting requirements with Business and Technology stakeholders to produce Business Requirements Documents and Functional Specification Documents Conducting functional, technical and data driven analysis to help validate requirements and current/future state process behavior Communication, coordination, tracking and reporting of key Software Development Lifecycle activities ensuring delivery milestones are met and risks, issues and dependency are proactively managed Mandatory Skills: 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst with proven delivery track record working on business and technology projects Mandatory knowledge of Financial Products especially Cash and OTC derivative products Knowledge of front to back Trade Lifecycle and processes Experience working with FPML / XML messaging protocols Strong analytical and problemsolving experience in both business and technical environments Candidate should be a quick learner. Should have demonstrated in the past quick learning capabilities Excellent listening and communication skills (both spoken and written English) Must be a team player with prior experience working in a global team Proactive, selfmotivated individual who works on their own initiative and is focused on driving process and quality improvements Desirable Skills: Experience working on regulatory and/or trading controls and validation project deliverables Knowledge and experience using SQL Working knowledge of Snowflake SDLC experience in any Continuous Integration and Build environment utilizing JIRA and Confluence Industry exposure of Investment banking Nomura Leadership Behaviours: Leadership Behaviours Description Element Exploring Insights & Vision Comprehensively analyse the nature of the problems we face and set our focus toward the future vision Gather Intelligence Create a vision Identify an issue Making Strategic Decisions Analyse options and feasibility to resolve issues, in making judgments and recommendations Identify countermeasures Assess feasibility Make a judgment Inspiring Entrepreneurship in People Promotes the vision and goals to others in such a way that inspires commitment and independent contributions Influence Inspire Commit Elevating Organizational Capacity Maximize organizational productivity through leadership development and engagement Have an ownership in own development Support other s growth Encourage organizational growth Inclusion Respect diverse perspectives and promote psychological safety and the creation of a risk culture Foster psychological safety Encourage the active participation of all talent Foster a risk culture We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees. We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, carer s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age. *Applying for this role does not amount to a job offer or create an obligation on Nomura to provide a job offer. The expression "Nomura" refers to Nomura Services India Private Limited together with its affiliates.