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Analyst
Job Description:
• Perform daily P&L, P&L attribution, P&L commentary, Investigate Flash vs. Formal differences
• Develop a sound understanding of daily processes – “the what”, “the why” and “the how”.
• Review P&L attributions and prepare commentaries and other MI
• Maintain trader mandate, monitor Volcker limits.
• Submit Clean & Hypo P&L for back-testing
• Attend to ad hoc queries from the traders and other infrastructure partners relating to trading revenue and Balance Sheet
• Good financial product knowledge
• Appreciation and understanding of financial markets
• Experienced with MS office toolkit (Word, PPT, Excel, Access Database etc)
• Be Self Motivated and Proactive to take initiative and improve the end product.
• Work well within the team and portray high standards of team work.
• Ask questions and challenge status quo. Do not assume that every current practice is the best practice. Question and satisfy yourself with the reasons for doing certain things in a certain way.
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
Qualification:
• Experienced with MS office toolkit (Word, PPT, Excel, Access Database etc)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in both formal and informal settings & ability to interact with the region and UK / US as part of a global team (written and verbal) Strong control awareness – in particular, the ability to identify and escalate potential control breakdowns and to streamline processes in an effective and efficient manner.
• Has the initiative and ability to break down problems into components parts and resolving them
• Attention to detail and analytical
• Confident and assertive manner
Skills that will help you in the role:
• CFA / Masters in Finance / Financial Engineering would be an advantage
• Articleship / Industrial trainee in mid to large sized firms
• Audit exposure in large financial institutions / banks preferred