Nomura Research Institute Europe Limited

FINANCIAL IT

Company Profile

Nomura Research Institute Europe Limited (NRI Europe) is an IT consulting and solutions provider for financial institutions in London and Luxembourg as a hub of global financial business.

Business Outline

NRI Europe was founded in 1972 and has the second longest history as NRI's overseas office outside Japan. We provide IT consulting, solutions and services by utilizing NRI Group’s competitive resources and know-how to our major customers who are Japanese financial institutions based in London and Luxembourg.

Research of financial IT's latest market and trend, relationship management for NRI customers in Europe and business development with local partners are also part of our important role. For IT consulting, we carry out project management and hi-level system design support for our customers at their site. For IT solutions and services, we provide application design and development, as well as maintenance services of IT infrastructures, desktop and server support.

London is the centre of global financial business, also recently attracting FinTech related IT ventures' activities. In Luxembourg, asset management and the related businesses are expanding. NRI Europe opened a branch office in Luxembourg four years ago and provides IT consulting to Japanese asset management firms. We offers high-quality and customer perspective services as IT specialist, which competitors could not meet easily.

Since 2015, we have been working on strengthening the local manpower for business expansion in Europe in order to achieve the target of new long-term management vision of NRI, namely 'NRI Vision 2022', which states to expand global business turnover.

Representative

President:
Yoshihide Sasaki

After obtaining a bachelor's degree in Science and Technology, Yoshihide started his career at NRI as a Systems engineer in 1989. In the mid 90's he moved into marketing, and was responsible for marketing activities with Global IT vendors on various migration projects in the Japanese IT market.

Since 2010 He has been in charge of International Financial Reporting Standards(IFRS) for financial instruments, drawing on his knowledge of finance and IT. He has led various IFRS39 and IFRS9 projects for Japanese banks, as well as rapidly accelerating overseas business in IT services for various Japanese financial institutions.

This is his first overseas posting since entering NRI, and he is excited about his new role in London.

Career

Project manager / Systems analyst
- Work experience in financial institution
- With good business communication skills in English and Japanese.
- Location : London