Performance Attribution Associate

2 months ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Nomura Full time


Job Title:
Performance Attribution Associate

Corporate Title: Associate

Reporting to: Performance Team Lead

Department: Performance

Company Overview:

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit

Department Overview

The Risk and Performance team provides services to a wide range of stakeholders across the Asset Management division globally. The role is within a small team covering the full range of products across all asset classes and across mutiple areas of the business, including Senior Management, Client Services, Portfolio Managers, Marketing and Sales Support.

Role Overview

The ideal candidate would have several years of performance related experience in a similar role from either buy-side, sell-side or client side middle office. The candidate must be able to priortise individual and team work loads and deliver high quality, accurate work to meet standards required by internal and external parties. The key responsibilities will be to prepare, monitor, callculate and analyse investment risk and performance related material and attribution analysis.

Main Duties and

Responsibilities:
  • Daily and monthly calculation of performance returns across all asset classes
  • Providing full attribution analysis to the portfolio managers to explain any different between the returns of the portfolio and the benchmark.
  • Provide other portfolio data as required by the portfolio managers allowing them to approve the performance returns.
  • Retrieving and providing performance and characteristic data to the reporting team to assist with the manufacture of client reports, by client deadline.
  • Ad hoc and RFP preparation.
  • Developing and reconciling fixed income portfolios within Bloomberg and Custodian.
  • Liaising with the IT department to identify automation of system feeds, streamlining the data collection process.
  • Contributing to project and product development both within the team and throughout the business. Strive to identify and develop new tools and approaches for analysing the funds.
  • Providing and presenting quantitative and qualitative support to marketing.
  • Utilising the full range of capabilities of FactSet, Bloomberg and other industry recognised portfolio analytic systems.
    Essential Skills & Experience:
    • Excellent understanding of performance calculations and methodologies
    • Several years' experience ideally with exposure to equity and fixed income asset classes
    • Excellent understanding of operational transactions that can occur on portfolios and how these can impact on performance and attribution.
    • Possess strong problem solving and analytical skills to interrogate portfolio data to identify and attribute differences in performance returns
    • Excellent time management skills essential to juggle priorities and meet tight deadlines
    • Proven understanding of asset management terminology and familiarity with investments instruments is essential
    • Excellent PC literacy required with strong knowledge of MS-Excel (VBA preferred)
    • Proven ability to quickly understand new systems, both in-house and market data provider systems such as Factset highly desirable
    • Must have acute attention to detail
    • Ability to communicate effectively at all levels both internally and externally
    • Organisational skills and the ability to prioritise a busy workload
    • Self-starter, able to think ahead and schedule tasks
    • Ability to be flexible and change priority quickly
    • Ability to get other departments to deliver with the tenacity to follow up on outstanding actions.
    • Interpreting and articulating investment performance, attribution and ex-post risk results for a diverse range of portfolios to clients
    • Understanding of data requirements to produce accurate results
    • Proven knowledge of market leading performance and attribution platforms
    • Understanding of performance and attribution product trends, including models and GIPS
    • Understanding fixed income markets and factor based attribution an advantage
      Right to Work

      The UK Government have taken steps to reduce net migration to the UK by limiting the number of overseas workers from outside the EEA coming to the UK for employment. Please note that whilst we are able to consider applications from overseas workers from outside the EEA (who require a Tier 2 (General) visa) we can only employ them if we can provide evidence that there are no other suitable candidates for this vacancy from inside the EEA.

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      Diversity Statement

      NAM 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. If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition, please do not hesitate to contact us.

      Nomura Asset Management is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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