Crisil - Research Analyst

Job title : Research Analyst

Location : Mumbai/ Chennai

Experience : 0-2 years with VBA expertise

Job Duties :

- Independently and diligently determine the qualifying constituents for upcoming Index rebalancing within the stipulated time

- Involves understanding the basics of Indexation, rebalancing and re-weighting of indices

- Learn client proprietary systems, tools, rebalancing templates, processes and complex strategies, using which qualifying constituents will be determined

- Understand the index rule books and the index specific strategies and proactively identify any process lapses and make suggestions to improve the respective templates or process documents

- Meticulously tack the upcoming rebalancing dates for the list of indices

- Interact with various stakeholders from front office to structuring desk, as required by the client

Qualification : MBA - Finance from a reputed institute, A CFA/FRM designation would be preferable.

Skills required :

- Good understanding of Indexation concepts and Risk based indices

- Working knowledge of VBA, Advanced Excel, Bloomberg/ Reuters

- Ability to learn and work on other tools such as Atom, Factset and Matlab

- Candidate should have a high level of attention to detail

- Good in communication and is able to independently handle the client relationship with little supervision from the manager.

About CRISIL GR&A : CRISIL Global Research & Analytics (GR&A) is the largest and top-ranked provider of high end research and analytics services to the world's leading commercial and investment banks, insurance companies, corporations, consulting firms, private equity players and asset management firms. CRISIL GRA operates from research centers in Argentina, China, India and Poland, providing research support across several time zones and in multiple languages to global organizations. It has deep expertise in the areas of equity research, fixed income research (covering global economies, 150 global sectors and over 3000 global companies), valuations, pricing complex derivatives, structured finance, risk management, actuarial analysis and business intelligence.

CRISIL GRA includes Irevna and Pipal Research, firms which were acquired by CRISIL. For more information, please visit www.irevna.com and www.pipalresearch.com