Valuations/Pricing Expert - Investment Bank

We want someone with IB Exposure predominantly on Valuations for OTC, Derivatives, Equities, FX, Fixed Income, CDS (Credit Default Swaps) for a leading Investment Bank in Chennai city.

Preferred only Female candidates.

Use the Below Job Description

- Advanced degree(s) in Accounting, Finance, and/or Economics and a minimum of 5 years relevant experience in accounting and pertaining to financial instruments, loans transactions, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

- CPA/CA/ACCA and/or FRM/PRM and/or CFA Mandatory.

- Professional experience with major financial institutions with practical knowledge of interest rate curve construction, yield and FX volatility surfaces and correlations, as well as Bond/Swap valuation methods including cancellable instruments.

- Strong understanding of fixed income products and their related accounting treatment.

- Good understanding of market data requirements for capital market related trading activities.

Duties and Accountabilities:

Candidate will work as part of a team of professionals to meet the group's responsibilities as they relate to the accounting and valuation of financial instruments.

Responsibilities will include the following:

- Review accounting entries and perform daily/monthly control activities for the borrowings and liquid investments portfolios.

- Analyze accounting results as they relate to the portfolios of the financial instruments unit to ensure they are consistent with expectations and business objectives or those deviations are understood and adequately documented. This would include the establishment of exception and monitoring reports and review and investigation of the same.

- Preparation and quality assurance of calculated market data, evaluation of data sources, and verification of the data reliability.

- Produce valuations for the financial instruments- portfolios, utilizing Summit and Numeric modeling tools.

- Compare and analyze valuations versus corresponding Counterparty valuations and other alternative sources.

- Analyze the results of sensitivity to market movements by utilizing Summit tools and formalizing into procedures and reporting.

- Proactively interact with leading bank Treasury (TRE) front office business units to stay abreast of new/proposed activities that may have accounting or reporting implications.

- Provide client services to clients within and outside the Bank by providing financial information, training programs and related materials.

- Contribute to cross-unit initiatives and Bank-wide initiatives where required.

- Fiduciary responsibility in reviewing policies and procedures and ensure they are correctly followed.

- Translate new initiatives or financial products into new processes and/or system requirements. This includes documenting approaches and processes, drafting Business Requirements Documents, test plan and testing of system.

- Continually look for opportunities to improve processes and internal controls. Be responsible for promoting controls and ensuring compliance in WFA.

- Provide analysis of results to management and other units in the Bank.