Analyst/Associate -Structuring

Business:Global Banking and Markets

Open positions: 1

Role Title:AAnalyst/Associate -Structuring

Global Career Band: 06

Location (Country/city)- Bangalore

Recruiter Name: Sushma Arupula

Why join us?

Work within the EQD Structuring team globally, aligned to the HK desk:

Specific responsibilities include:

• Daily Launch and monitoring of the local Pricing platform and schedulers


• Monitoring of the desk daily interactions with support teams (especially Ops) regarding daily bookings to ensure Documentation vs booking consistency


• Marketing content generation from screening of the research to find interesting themes to pricing and PowerPoint production


• Secondary market pricing (Add On and Unwinds)


• Term Sheet platform maintenance


• Platform improvement (Python and VBA)


• MI generation


• Flow Pricing

• Back test generation

What you’ll do: (List out Key Responsibilities):

Principal Accountabilities: Key activities and decision making areas

• Responsible for maintaining and enhancing the pricing platform


• Working with multiple stakeholders from MO and FO to ensure consistency in the booking process


• Working with sales and trading to generate marketing material for new products, run back tests and perform pricing

Typical Targets and Measures

• Smooth working of the pricing platform


• Quick turnaround for ad-hoc queries


• Back testing various strategies and presenting the results


• Positive feedback from the desk
  

Customers / Stakeholders

• Global Head of Structuring


• Structuring team in London and Bangalore


• Sales teams in Europe


• Equities Management team


• Internal Collaboration - Develops close and effective working relationships within respective Functions /Businesses


• Ensures that customer propositions or business improvement programmers demonstrate clear, measurable, worthwhile benefits over the short, medium and long-term and identifies the full range of implications on the future success of the business


• Build a good relationship with the Global teams, to ensure communication lines are fluid.

Typical Targets and Measures

• Feedback from team members


• Ensure stakeholder satisfaction through timely delivery of quality work


• Feedback from onshore and offshore colleagues

Operational Effectiveness & Control

• Aims at operational effectiveness and the delivery of the desired results


• Continuing development, implementation and improvement of the processes, structures, capabilities, capacity and infrastructure needed


• Establish and maintain a robust and efficient control environment across the team together with early identification and effective resolution or escalation of issues that arise
  

Typical Targets and Measures

• Infrastructure and capabilities have measurable impact on operational effectiveness


• Adequately manage various projects and initiatives leading to process or functionality improvement and reduction of operational risk

Leadership & Teamwork

• Assisting other members of the Structuring desk with issues


• Addressing queries from stakeholders


• Working with structuring and IT to enhance pricing platform and develop MI tools

Typical Targets and Measures

• Effective support within the team, good feedback from members


• Effective collaboration and communication with the teams onshore and offshore

Major Challenges (The challenges inherent in the role that require a continual test of the role holder’s abilities)

• The role is split across multiple stakeholders with competing demands, requiring the role holder to manage priorities effectively with stakeholders and within the regional team

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• Managing multiple time-sensitive tasks, potentially across several stakeholders


• Fast paced work environment with continuous change and advances in technology


• Increasing focus on business continuity delivery

anagement of Risk (Operational Risk / FIM requirements)

• Is aware of the Operational Risk scenarios associated with their role and acts in a manner that takes account of operational risk considerations.


• Consistently displays the behaviors that form part of the HSBC Values and culture and adheres to HSBC risk policies and procedures, including notification and escalation of any concerns and taking required action.

• The jobholder is responsible for managing and mitigating operational risks in their day to day operations.


• Ensures risk policies and governance frameworks are appropriately implemented in their part of the business


• Communicates changes in policy and governance and reinforces risk processes in the way their team work


• Establishes and maintains an environment where risk is routinely anticipated, acknowledged, identified, quantified and acted upon in a timely and efficient way


• Promotes the use of risk management processes and ideas to enable their team to manage risk ethically across regions and business areas and enable their teams to do business safely in accordance with corporate sustainability policies

Observation of Internal Controls (Compliance Policy / FIM requirements)

• The jobholder will also adhere to and be able to demonstrate adherence to internal controls. This will be achieved by adherence to all relevant procedures, keeping appropriate records and, where appropriate, by the timely implementation of internal and external audit points, including issues raised by external regulators


• The jobholder will adhere to all relevant processes/procedures.


• Also and when applicable, by ensuring adequate resources are in place and training is provided, fostering a compliance culture and optimising relations with regulators.


• Understands, follows and demonstrates compliance with all relevant internal and external rules, regulations and procedures that apply to the conduct of the business in which the jobholder is involved, specifically Internal Controls and any Compliance policy including, inter alia, the Group Compliance policy.

What you will need to succeed in the role:

• 1-3 years of relevant experience in structuring/pricing products


• Strong mathematical ability and understand of equity derivatives products and their structures


• Excellent problem solving and coding exposure to Python and VBA


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills/ability to express ideas via writing


• Pro-activeness/Initiative taking


• Ability to work within a team and speak directly to onshore stakeholders


• Proven ability to prioritise workload effectively in line with business priorities

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