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JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Hiring for Reference Data Associate at Mumbai, Maharashtra Full Time
The Index Calculation Agent team (ICAT) in Mumbai is responsible for the daily valuation of fixed income instruments included in the JP Morgan’s global fixed income flagship benchmarks, covering both developed and emerging markets. The team manages and runs the index calculation engine used for daily and monthly index operations, client reporting and publication generation. The team is also responsible for tracking market events, affecting bond price movements.
The team interacts daily with the Global Index Research Group, a part of the JP Morgan Corporate Investment Banking Research, across its global footprint (in New York, London and Asia) to ensure that the index processes, requests and systems are operating efficiently. Functions performed by the wider team in CIB include: Fixed Income market research to produce robust cutting-edge benchmark products and custom solutions for institutional investors and ETF providers, across the globe; Client interaction for strategic queries on index products; Commercialization of index services and analytical tools to buy-side clients and vendors; Implementation of new index analytics tools and platform for better client service.
Job Responsibilities:
- Daily third-party price capture & validation of bond prices versus multiple market sources
- Analyze price movements against market news and expectations
- Good understanding of fixed income securities and it’s characteristics
- Liaise with pricing vendor to resolve issues and minimize risk
- Good Reference Data and Bond Analytics knowledge
- Monitor systems for related job success and resolve issues by working with technology teams if any failures
- Prepare and send daily pricing and market impact summaries with supporting market news
- Generate and maintain month-end Index rebalance and composition reports by garnering information on new bond issuance and auction/buy-back activities
- Produce and analyze valuation movements within client portfolios on a daily and monthly basis
- Complete all daily, monthly, and ad-hoc tasks and reporting as required accurately and to deadline
- Resolve client queries promptly and professionally
- Participate and present in client monthly meetings
- Escalate all issues promptly and effectively to supervisor
- Contribute to ongoing developments of the pricing control process
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience
- Ad-hoc project work as directed
- Working experience with different vendors- Bloomberg, Reuters
- Having technical skills (Python, VBA, SQL etc.) is an added advantage
JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.