Risk Analyst - Investment Bank - IIT/IIM

Job Summary:

- The Client is looking for extremely bright candidates with a science-based academic background, ideally to include pure or applied mathematics, physics or engineering, with exposure to financial analysis. The role can be broadly categorized as ‘Risk Analyst’ and focuses evaluating and assessing risk, and developing pricing and risk computation infrastructure for the for the Second-order Risk Group which manages the second order counterparty credit risk for Global Finance and Foreign Exchange.

Location: Mumbai

Experience: 2-4 years

Qualification: IIT / IIM

Designation: Senior Analyst / Associate

Job Description:

- Examine counterparty level portfolio credit risk using existing front-office trading risk management systems

- Further develop the existing risk management and pricing systems

- Analyze exotic derivatives risk as well as run detailed scenario analysis on portfolios

- Support traders on pricing and analysis of live deals

- Initiate and execute process optimization and automation projects

- Analyzing counterparty credit profiles in detail on selected clients through secondary research from varied sources

- Keeping abreast of all the news and key market indicators related to client base in order to flag major developments early

Other Requirements:

- Strong educational background in Engineering/ Science. Preferably IIT/IIM candidates

- Previous experience with complex Quantitative and data mining projects is desirable

- Strong Excel skills will be required. VBA and SQL knowledge desirable

- Financial Statements Analysis skills will be desirable.

- The candidate should be a creative thinker, interested in innovative financial products