Description
You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in Fixed Income Index Operations and Pricing Controls. You have found the right team.
As an Associate (Manager) Professional / Lead within our Index Calculation Agent team (Mumbai), you will spend each day defining, refining and delivering set goals for our firm.
Job Responsibilities
- Validate daily third‑party price capture for fixed income securities using multiple market sources.
- Investigate price and valuation movements and explain what is driving changes.
- Partner with pricing vendors to resolve data issues quickly and reduce operational risk.
- Monitor daily production runs, identify breaks, and coordinate with technology partners to restore processing.
- Prepare and share daily pricing and market impact summaries with clear context.
- Produce month‑end index rebalance and composition reporting, incorporating new issuance and corporate actions.
- Analyze valuation movements within client portfolios on a daily and monthly basis and highlight key drivers.
- Complete daily, monthly, and ad‑hoc tasks accurately and on deadline, with strong attention to detail.
- Handle client queries promptly and professionally, ensuring timely follow‑up and closure.
- Participate in and present during monthly client meetings, communicating results in a client‑friendly way.
- Improve pricing controls, procedures, and documentation to strengthen the end‑to‑end process.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience).
- 8+ years of relevant experience in fixed income operations, valuations, pricing, index operations, or a closely related area.
- Strong understanding of fixed income instruments and their key characteristics (for example pricing conventions, cash flows, and lifecycle events).
- Experience using market data sources and pricing platforms (for example Bloomberg and Refinitiv) and reconciling differences across sources.
- Strong analytical skills, you can isolate issues, identify root cause, and drive items to resolution.
- Strong communication skills, you can explain outcomes clearly to stakeholders and clients.
- Strong ownership mindset, you proactively track actions to completion and escalate when needed.
- Ability to collaborate across global teams and time zones.
- Strong spreadsheet skills and comfort working with large datasets.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to perform under daily cutoffs and month‑end deadlines.
- Strong teamwork skills with the ability to lead through influence.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Experience with automation or data tooling (for example Python, Visual Basic for Applications, or Structured Query Language).
- Chartered Financial Analyst designation is a plus.
- Master of Business Administration is preferred.
"Developing experience using AI-powered analytics, workflow automation, or intelligent process tools to drive efficiency gains, reduce manual effort, or improve accuracy in operational processes.”