Evalueserve - FX Research Role

Key Responsibilities :

- Creating and maintaining short and medium term market and macro models that drive currency markets over time.

- Analyzing large sets of data and information relevant to the currency market such as flow data, positioning, option market structure and M&A data and authoring relevant reports.

- Generating and back testing trading ideas for G10 currencies for example on the basis of yield curve slope, yield spread, relative equity performance, valuation, and momentum and market microstructures.

- Writing and publishing research commentary to accompany data analysis and to discuss market drivers.

- Work on ad-hoc macro and market projects of relevance to the currency market, for example the impact of a widening US trade deficit on the dollar.

- Handle ad hoc research requests for data analysis and updates as per requirements.

Experience/Skills :

- Postgraduate in Economics/Finance/Maths/Physics, with 3-6 years of role relevant experience

- Proficient in econometrics, with prior experience in quantitative modeling and forecasting.

- Understanding the various inter-linkages between the macro indicators and ability to relate them with the financial markets.

- Coding skills: R/Python (intermediate to advanced level)

- Having a good knowledge of databases (Haver, Datastream, Reuters, Bloomberg and other financial databases), handle a lot of data, create charts, work on complicated excel based models etc.

- Advanced Excel/VBA and quantitative skills: Ability to work with and analyse large set of data and information.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills