Analytics - Data Science Analyst

Corporate Title

Analyst

Human Resources

New York

Base salary: $75K – $85K per year* (subject to market conditions and qualifications)

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning over 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions:
Retail, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking), and Investment Management. 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

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The Human Resources team partners with Nomura’s businesses to offer a consistent global approach to people management with local ownership and delivery. Our objective is to support Nomura’s Vision and Values making Nomura a vibrant and exciting place to work for, to attract and retain the best people and be recognized as an employer of choice. We seek to ensure that there is clarity about how the HR team makes a difference to business performance.

One of our key requirements is in the management of people risk across our businesses, and to encourage integrity, fairness, transparency and accountability by providing management information and data‑enabled insight that supports strategic decisions around managing people performance and risks.

Drive development of people analytics products and support digital transformation across Nomura Group.

• Exceptional analytics experience & technical skills. Expertise across data/information preparation, data insight & visualization using BI (or comparable tools), and advanced data prediction using AI, ML, DL, etc.
• Be an analytics technical expert. Lead and explain or educate people at all levels across Nomura in analytics, coding, structured & unstructured databases, statistical algorithms and models, machine learning and AI, frameworks and libraries.
• Contribute to the development of Nomura’s data products. Use your analytics expertise plus FS domain and/or HR functional knowledge, problem‑solving skills and independent thinking to create Nomura’s data, information & analytics products.
• Be a team player & an individual contributor. Work with HR colleagues within and outside the People Analytics team, the wider GDO (Global Data Office) team and other business function colleagues as part of larger deliveries, while also working independently or in small teams to continuously deliver business value for Nomura.
• Be a trusted partner. Someone that anyone in Nomura can come to for help with creating analytics‑driven business transformation.

• Preferred MBA or Masters in quantitative fields (Computer Science, Statistics or similar).
• Advanced Python working experience.
• SQL (MySQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, Teradata, etc.).
• Regression models, Hidden Markov models, SVM, dimensionality reduction, decision trees, clustering, optimization algorithms.
• Boosted models, random forest, ensemble algorithms, natural language processing, neural network models.
• (Optional) No
  
  SQL (Mongo
  
  DB, Couch
  
  DB, Cassandra, Memcache
  
  DB), voice, image, video, etc.
• (Optional) Tensor Flow, OpenCV, Theano, CNTK, scikit, Caffe, Spark MLib, etc.
• Understanding FS industry fundamentals and business problems to find new ways to leverage data, and/or experience of working with HR data to solve strategic problems related to the workforce.
• Intellectual curiosity to solve data‑driven problems.
• Independent thoughts and unique ideas on solving business problems.
• Able to collaborate / virtually manage multicultural, multidisciplinary, globally dispersed teams.
• Strong communication skills to explain highly technical problems in simple layman form.
• Ability to articulate the impact of decisions and recommend improvements.

• Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a…