Fund Financing Analyst/Associate

Job Title: Fund Financing & Solutions 
Department: Global Markets
Location: New York
Corporate Title: Analyst/Associate  

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $110,000-$120,000 

Department Overview: 

Nomura's Global Markets department provides liquidity, market insights, and execution services to clients worldwide across various asset classes, including equities, fixed income, currencies, and commodities. The team's focus on innovation and technology provides clients with access to cutting-edge trading platforms and customized solutions. Nomura's Global Markets team specializes in market-making, risk management, and electronic trading, with a strong global presence and reputation for exceptional service to clients. With expertise, global reach, and commitment to innovation, Nomura's Global Markets department is well-positioned to continue driving growth and success in the financial industry.  

Job Overview 

Nomura's Fund Financing & Solutions desk — a leading franchise in the fund finance sector — is hiring an Analyst or Associate in New York to join a small, high-visibility team executing bespoke financing solutions for private markets sponsors. You will sit at the center of live transactions: summarizing and analyzing collateral pools, underwriting funds and sponsors, forming and articulating a directional view on new opportunities, creating internal committee materials, communicating both internally and externally in relation to new and existing opportunities, and coordinating KYC and onboarding workstreams through to close. 

• Beyond execution, you will own the desk's loan portfolio management infrastructure, serving as point person for the systems, models, and reporting used to monitor and manage the existing book, and acting as a key internal touchpoint for risk, legal, finance, and other stakeholders seeking to understand individual transactions or the portfolio as a whole
• The role is heavily PowerPoint- and Excel-based, with a growing mandate to build and deploy AI tooling that makes the desk's underwriting and monitoring processes faster and sharper. We are looking for someone with strong credit and analytical instincts, exceptional attention to detail, the organizational discipline to be trusted with a portfolio, and the communication skills to be the person everyone — internally and externally — comes to for answers. 
• Prior experience in fund finance, structured credit, leveraged finance, private capital, or a related underwriting-intensive role is preferred; genuine curiosity about how technology can reshape a financing business is a real differentiator. 

Nomura Leadership Behaviours 

• Explore Insights & Vision: Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a clear vision and direction for the future. 

• Making Strategic Decisions: Evaluate all the options for resolving the problems and effectively prioritize actions or recommendations. 

• Inspire Entrepreneurship in People: Inspire team members through effective communication of ideas and motivate them to actively enhance productivity.