Fixed Income Index Operations and Pricing Controls - Associate

Description 

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in Fixed Income Index Operations and Pricing Controls. You have found the right team.

As an Associate (Manager) Professional / Lead within our Index Calculation Agent team (Mumbai), you will spend each day defining, refining and delivering set goals for our firm.

Job Responsibilities

• Validate daily third‑party price capture for fixed income securities using multiple market sources.


• Investigate price and valuation movements and explain what is driving changes.


• Partner with pricing vendors to resolve data issues quickly and reduce operational risk.


• Monitor daily production runs, identify breaks, and coordinate with technology partners to restore processing.


• Prepare and share daily pricing and market impact summaries with clear context.


• Produce month‑end index rebalance and composition reporting, incorporating new issuance and corporate actions.


• Analyze valuation movements within client portfolios on a daily and monthly basis and highlight key drivers.


• Complete daily, monthly, and ad‑hoc tasks accurately and on deadline, with strong attention to detail.


• Handle client queries promptly and professionally, ensuring timely follow‑up and closure.


• Participate in and present during monthly client meetings, communicating results in a client‑friendly way.


• Improve pricing controls, procedures, and documentation to strengthen the end‑to‑end process.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience).


• 8+ years of relevant experience in fixed income operations, valuations, pricing, index operations, or a closely related area.


• Strong understanding of fixed income instruments and their key characteristics (for example pricing conventions, cash flows, and lifecycle events).


• Experience using market data sources and pricing platforms (for example Bloomberg and Refinitiv) and reconciling differences across sources.


• Strong analytical skills, you can isolate issues, identify root cause, and drive items to resolution.


• Strong communication skills, you can explain outcomes clearly to stakeholders and clients.


• Strong ownership mindset, you proactively track actions to completion and escalate when needed.


• Ability to collaborate across global teams and time zones.


• Strong spreadsheet skills and comfort working with large datasets.


• Strong attention to detail and ability to perform under daily cutoffs and month‑end deadlines.


• Strong teamwork skills with the ability to lead through influence.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Experience with automation or data tooling (for example Python, Visual Basic for Applications, or Structured Query Language).


• Chartered Financial Analyst designation is a plus.


• Master of Business Administration is preferred.