Assistant Vice President - Product Control - Banking

Job Title: Assistant VP

Location: Chennai

- Produce daily desk PL including commentaries, investigate Flash/Formal differences

- Ensure the maintenance of a strong internal control environment. Review key controls: FOBOs, adjustment substantiation and New, Amends & Cancels trades review

What will you be doing? : 

- Perform daily P&L, P&L attribution, P&L commentary, Investigate Flash vs. Formal differences

- Develop a sound understanding of daily processes the what,  the why and  the how

- Review P&L attributions and prepare commentaries and other MI

- Maintain trader mandate, monitor Volcker limits.

- Submit Clean & Hypo P&L for back-testing

- Attend to ad hoc queries from the traders and other infrastructure partners relating to trading revenue and Balance Sheet.

Weekly / Monthly Responsibilities : 

- Balance Sheet control and commentary, Month End adjustments and Balance Sheet Substantiation

- Perform key weekly & monthly reporting to senior management.

- Attend to queries from internal and external audit and reviews and maintain key stroke documentations for key PC processes, risk assessment and SOX documentation.

Controls : 

- Ensure that a strong internal control environment is maintained at all times. Review key controls: FOBOs, adjustment substantiation and New, Amends & Cancels trades review

- Identify and drive process re-engineering and constantly challenge current processes for improvement and efficiency

- Raise any control weaknesses to the team. Brainstorm with the team to come up with an action plan.

Personal Traits : 

- Good financial product knowledge

- Appreciation and understanding of financial markets

- Experienced with MS office toolkit (Word, PPT, Excel, Access Database etc)

- Be Self Motivated and Proactive to take initiative and improve the end product.

- Work well within the team and portray high standards of team work.

- Ask questions and challenge status quo. Do not assume that every current practice is the best practice. Question and satisfy yourself with the reasons for doing certain things in a certain way.

- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills

What we're looking for:

- Experienced with MS office toolkit (Word, PPT, Excel, Access Database etc)

- Excellent communication and presentation skills in both formal and informal settings & ability to interact with the region and UK / US as part of a global team (written and verbal) Strong control awareness - in particular, the ability to identify and escalate potential control breakdowns and to streamline processes in an effective and efficient manner.

- Has the initiative and ability to break down problems into components parts and resolving them

- Attention to detail and analytical

- Confident and assertive manner

Skills that will help you in the role:

- CFA / Masters in Finance / Financial Engineering would be an advantage

- Articleship / Industrial trainee in mid to large sized firms

- Audit exposure in large financial institutions / banks preferred

Where will you be working - Chennai