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Mumbai, India

Lead – Market Risk Reporting

One of our clients who is a leading investment banking firm with presence across globe, planning to expand market risk reporting team in Mumbai. Hence, actively looking to hire candidates with at least 5+ years of hands-on risk reporting (credit/market risk) within an investment bank or associated consulting firms.

Please contact Adil Sharieff or email your cv directly in word format with job reference number JO0000007211 to riskandquants-in@theedgepartnership.com.

Please note that due to the high number of applications only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us in the next 5 business days, we regret to inform you that your application for this position was unsuccessful.

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Key responsibilities

  • Participate in tasks across the breadth of services from front to back, cross team collaboration to learn about Front office -data governance process and market data update function.
  • Seek to perform daily market data update process, clearing exceptions, altering rules and source mappings as necessary.
  • Perform analysis using the VaR engine to quantify impacts of versioned updates to the market data set and project releases.
  • Evaluate quality and suitability of existing source data, mappings, and instrument type categorizations and associated rules (including benching decisions).
  • Collaborate across the team to work on current book of work items such as data quality issue resolution, front to back source data alignment.
  • Identify areas of weakness in processes/systems and ensure that these are captured in the change management system.
  • Liaise with market data and other risk systems IT support to specify and test system improvements.

Role requirements

  • Qualified degree in the field of mathematics or finance / accounting or engineering.
  • Experience in the field of Credit / Market risk (Preferably in the banking sector).
  • Proficient in financial products across different asset and risk classes, the various risk factors (aka risk types) and the associated market data.
  • Conceptual understanding of different VaR models and impact on VaR due to market moves.
  • Experience on working with external data providers such as Bloomberg / Reuters / Markit.