Associate - Market Risk

Primary Responsibilities

- Uploading and Analyzing sample prospective portfolios, comprising of several financial product types in Equities, Convertible Bonds, Corporate Bonds, Swaps (IRS/CDS), Options and Futures on Commodities/Index/Interest Rates/Currencies.

- This may involve searching for relevant tickers/identifiers for such products, using Bloomberg and other internal sources/databases.

- Analysing live client portfolios, highlighting risk issues/concerns, and recommending margin policy changes.

- Conducting Risk analysis for the various funds analysing factors like Liquidity, Concentration, etc.

- Senior Management Risk Reporting and Trend Analysis for the various businesses.

- Risk analysis based on Strategy or Country, or Sector or other market-based events as needed.

- Streamlining/Automation/Tool Building for Internal Risk Management.

- Liaising with the relevant regional stakeholders (Risk, Margin, Credit, IT, etc.) in terms of periodic risk deliverables.

- Participate in global risk projects out of Mumbai in terms of requirements gathering,

developing, testing and validation.

Primary/Required Skills

- 1-2 years of experience in the Finance industry.

- FRM / CFA (at least Level 1 completed).

- In-depth understanding of Financial Products (Equities, Options, Futures, Bonds, Commodities, Rates, Credit) and good understanding of risk in such products.

- Working Knowledge in any of (VBA /Python/R) programming languages or ability to analyze large data sets using SQL/Excel/Power BI tools.

- Strong Analytical skills and hands-on approach to problem solving.

- Excellent communication skills.

- Exceptional organizational skills and high degree of attention to detail.

- Ability to work independently and efficiently in a complex, fast-paced environment.

- Enthusiasm to volunteer for planning, organizing, and participating in events held by the department and the Firm.