Job Description

Primary Responsibilities

The Asian Swaps desk, headquartered in Hong Kong, trades delta-one products, predominantly equity swaps over most Asian stock markets with hedge fund and other institutional clients. The role is to support this team from India.

The analyst role will broadly involve owning following responsibilities:
Supporting the desk in day-to-day trading and booking tasks
Analytical support for trading book management and P&L optimization
Onboarding tasks for new clients - Entering accounts in the system, moving existing swaps into new folders etc.
Corp actions processing, chasing for risk updates on paying corporate actions
Support for Give-ups booking, cash/swap amendments, end of day swings

Qualifications

Business Skills:
Prioritisation: Comfortable working on multiple tasks in parallel and managing tactical intra-day deadlines
Systematic, methodical, diligent and attentive to detail
Ability to handle and process considerable volume of email traffic
Business Knowledge:
Knowledge of Delta-One products like Indices, warrants, futures, stock loan and FX preferred
Understanding of financial concepts e.g. hedging, leverage, financing, corporate actions, tax
Proficient analytical/math skills
Ability to mine large quantities of data for significant trends and patterns
Comfortable with using several complex firm systems
Communication:
Engage with traders over business issues and in business-oriented conversation
Engage with internal and external teams such as brokers, operations, IT, documentation etc.
Work independently:
Working independently, yet need to be engage with several trading and support groups within the firm
Innovation:
Suggest process improvements and P&L enhancement opportunities

Technical Skills:
Experience and excellent knowledge of using Microsoft Office suite (Excel/VBA and Access)
Database programming experience (SQL) preferred
Education: Any Graduate
Industry: Financial Services/Stockbroking

Skills Required