Fixed Income Analyst

Associate / Senior Associate / Delivery Lead Experience Level: 2-5 Years Location - Bangalore Job Purpose The Specialized Solutions group at Acuity Knowledge Partners provides services in the areas of market research, qualitative analysis, financial analytics, market risk and derivative pricing to banks and financial services organizations. A significant part of these efforts involves tracking, analyzing, and preparing detailed market outlooks on commodities, FX and interest rates. As an economist, this position mainly focuses on analyzing, forecasting and preparing written commentary/presentations on the macro-economy along with helping to create quant-based trade strategies on fixed-income products. Key Responsibilities

• Strong understanding of macro-economic trends, market risk factors and geopolitical developments with a genuine interest in developing a career in macro research.
• Writing research notes/commentary on macroeconomic trends
• Create outlooks and presentations on economic topics
• Familiarity with fixed-income products (this role will be assisting with work in EGBs, SSAs). Building and maintaining rates relative value models, auction strategies and supply calendars.

Create and maintain economic calendars Help create quantitative models to better understand the relation among the economic variables Build statistical models on fair valuation/relative valuation of interest rates and FX Job Requirements/ Qualification A Master’s or PhD degree in Economics, Finance or STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). Experience 2-5 years Full-time or internship experience in financial markets, ideally in research, portfolio management, trading, or market risk. Previous exposure to financial products in the fixed-income space. Functional Competencies

• Research note-writing capability
• Database management
• Fluent in verbal and written communication
• Extract data and information from the Bloomberg terminal or Macrobond
• Coding skills and modelling experience in Python
• High level of computer literacy and skills in data manipulation/presentation (MS Office)
• Familiarity with rate curves and RV models.