Fund Financing Analyst/Associate

Nomura Holdings, inc.•New York, NY

3d•$110,000 - $120,000•Onsite

About The Position

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. The role involves summarizing and analyzing collateral pools, underwriting funds and sponsors, forming and articulating a directional view on new opportunities, creating internal committee materials, communicating internally and externally regarding new and existing opportunities, and coordinating KYC and onboarding workstreams through to close. Beyond execution, the role includes owning the desk's loan portfolio management infrastructure, serving as the point person for 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. The role is heavily PowerPoint- and Excel-based, with a growing mandate to build and deploy AI tooling to enhance underwriting and monitoring processes. We are looking for someone with strong credit and analytical instincts, exceptional attention to detail, organizational discipline, and communication skills.

Requirements

Strong credit and analytical instincts
Exceptional attention to detail
Organizational discipline to be trusted with a portfolio
Communication skills to be the person everyone — internally and externally — comes to for answers
Currently authorized to work for any employer in the United States

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in fund finance, structured credit, leveraged finance, private capital, or a related underwriting-intensive role
Genuine curiosity about how technology can reshape a financing business

Responsibilities

Summarizing and analyzing collateral pools
Underwriting funds and sponsors
Forming and articulating a directional view on new opportunities
Creating internal committee materials
Communicating internally and externally in relation to new and existing opportunities
Coordinating KYC and onboarding workstreams through to close
Owning 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
Acting as a key internal touchpoint for risk, legal, finance, and other stakeholders seeking to understand individual transactions or the portfolio as a whole
Building and deploying AI tooling that makes the desk's underwriting and monitoring processes faster and sharper