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Introduction:

Our client is the largest global development group focused on the private sector in emerging markets.

More than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in developing countries.

Responsibilities:

Under Valuation and Analytics team , we are seeking for talent , a dynamic and motivated analyst to provide the Middle Office support.

The analyst will work in maintaining and managing selected data in relevant Treasury systems in addition to supporting the calculation and daily or periodical reporting of performance calculation, attribution and risk reporting. In addition, the analyst will also provide support to the valuation functions of the team and support the team in activities such as: leveling activities for issued bonds

• Maintain and implement automated internal portfolio’s benchmark capture.

• Static data maintenance.

• Ensure and adopt the appropriate data quality standards within the functions the unit performs or oversees.

• Run daily market data downloads, perform validation, troubleshoot errors, maintain manual curves.

• Monitor, check quality of the data, investigate anomalies and react on various processes for report generation within the scope of the team’s mandate.

• Support the daily and period-end performance and attribution calculation.

• Support activities related to the performance calculation.

• Provide as needed support specific to the valuation function, including but not limited to the valuation and pricing calculation, Bond Price Verification, Leveling, valuation reconciliation.

• Prepare and maintain documentation of individual and group work.

• Implement productivity enhancing utilities and application.

• Provide ad-hoc analysis and reporting to clients.

• Perform guidelines compliance monitoring.

• provide bond valuation through market quote or internal models.

• Work on process automation.

• Keep abreast of the industry’s standard processes and technologies used.

Requirements:

• Master’s Degree in a relevant field (Finance, Business, Engineering, or another quantitative subject area with at least 2 years of relevant market experience or an undergraduate degree in a quantitative field with at least 4 years of relevant work experience in finance and investments such as portfolio management, market or credit Risk, or investment performance.

• Knowledge of fixed income mathematics, derivatives and information technology.

• Strong analytical skills.

• High degree of motivation to improve productivity and efficiency using computer system.

• Careful attention to details and reliability of the output.

• Ability to work under pressure.

• Self-motivated and able to work in an international team.

• Excellent communication skills to explain the logic behind the analysis.

• Dedication to the daily production of accurate reports.

• College degree in Finance or Mathematics and/or experience in fixed-income analysis will be preferred.

• Knowledge of Bloomberg, Reuters, Summit (Misys) will be a strong advantage.

• Proficiency in VBA, Python, C++, Oracle (or other RDBMS), SQL, MS Access and Excel in order to maintain and improve existing reporting applications will be a big plus.