As a Research and Analysis Markets - Data Analysis Group member within the Markets Group under Corporate and Investment Banking Research and Analysis group, you will be an integral part of a rapidly expanding team that covers a wide range of asset classes across various regions. Your role will involve close collaboration with global sales teams, preparing pitches for derivative products, pricing, creating market monitors, market updates, and conducting research. You will gain exposure to various asset classes including Interest Rates, Credit, and Foreign Exchange, with a particular focus on the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa region. Your responsibilities will include transaction origination and execution, collaborating with multiple teams on idea generation, pricing, documentation, and execution. Additionally, you will be tasked with staying abreast of market trends, producing pertinent analysis, and providing support to local market sales teams.
Job responsibilities
- Devise and provide pricing on derivative structures using internal pricing models according to client requirements (mostly Kapital and Sapphire).
- Analyze and generate ideas by working with the Structuring/Sales desks on various flow and tailor-made structuring requests, building models in Excel, back-testing strategies, and reconciling back-tests prepared in parallel. Take initiatives to develop product ideas based on market research and analysis.
- Prepare deal documentation, including term sheets, confirmations, and internal risk policy/committee papers for different products like FX, Rates, and Credit.
- Monitor the market by compiling periodic reports on key developments in the economy, interest rate, and currency markets, and provide customized market outlooks based on internal market research reports. Follow markets and generate trade ideas based on ASW or cross-currency basis moves, for instance.
- Support basic sales/structuring by liaising with Sales colleagues and Structuring teams, assisting in client analysis and monitoring, providing help for after-trade settlements, and supplying client information to pitch more ideas.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Graduates/post-graduates with min 3 years of exposure to Interest rates, Foreign Exchange, Credit or cross-asset Derivatives and Structured Products, in trading, sales, structuring or research verticals
- Written competency and spoken language fluency in English
- Keen interest in financial markets (Derivatives and Macro markets)
- Strong quantitative and problem solving skills
- Analytical aptitude and ability to learn financial concepts
- Good knowledge of Excel, use of internet and standard Office suite
- Good communication and team skills in a multi-location set up
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- VBA and any programming language knowledge can be an advantage
- Familiarities with financial concepts and awareness of broader markets
- Ability to think from first principle
- Self-starter entrepreneurial mindset
The team is based out of L&T office of J.P. Morgan in Powai, Mumbai.