Vice President - Transaction Banking, Lending & Securities Services

The job involves taking ownership and complete responsibility for building the estimates to create benchmarking analysis for corporate and investment banks using industry and financial research and presenting the analysis to onshore teams and clients. Typical projects will involve gathering, analyzing, synthesizing and presenting data using structured methodologies and frameworks. Projects may take couple of days to several weeks for completion.

Key responsibilities involve:

· Manage and/ or work with a team of analysts while working on multiple projects

· Lead quarterly analysis of revenue across top tier banks, regional players and Industry landscape

· Identify key trends across all regions and products, highlighting areas of out/underperformance :-

• Craft effective search strategies and gather relevant information leveraging a broad set of resources (e.g. on-line databases, internet, external researchers etc.). Utilize both secondary and primary research sources and techniques
• Take complete ownership to explain the market trends, drivers and the reasons for change in estimates/direction of revenues
• Model relationships between macroeconomic indicators and IB performance metrics to arrive at forecasts/ estimates for the above KPIs

· Update and restructure models based on qualitative and quantitative information from Coalition contacts in the IB industry

· Assist clients and/or other research delivery team members in articulating and refining research requests and projects, while working on multiple projects

· Organize, analyze, synthesize and summarize data and information using appropriate analytical methodologies and frameworks. Conduct quantitative analysis (statistical analysis, financial data analysis etc.) as necessary

· Responsible for day to day workflow management including prioritizing and managing multiple projects

· Responsible for all aspects of a project – planning, management and delivery

· Coordinate regular meetings with key personnel in London, New York and Singapore, for reviews, and project updates

· Responsible for training offshore new joiners about TBLS products and methodology

· Responsible for coaching and mentoring new joiners in the team

· Complete ad hoc research requests, knowledge building and business development projects as necessary

• Manage and/ or work with an expanded team of analysts while working on multiple projects
• Craft effective search strategies and gather relevant information leveraging a broad set of resources (e.g. on-line databases, internet, external researchers etc.). Utilize both secondary and primary research sources and techniques

· Foster a cohesive, creative and comfortable working environment, mediating any personal issue within the team

· Delegate responsibilities and supervise the work of team members providing guidance and motivation to drive maximum performance

· Work with IT teams for process automation and simplification

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

The successful candidate will have to demonstrate the following skills, experience and attributes likely to have been gained over three to five years of relevant experience:

• MBA or post graduate degree in business management, statistics, economics or similar analytical fields

• Professional certifications like CFA, FRM, CAIA etc. would be an added advantage

• Must have at least 5 – 8 years of experience in managing a team size of 5+

• Strong quantitative skills, an analytical mind and an ability to work with significant amounts of data, both numerical and qualitative

• Ability to take decisions while working with unstructured and limited information

• Prior experience in business research / analytics

• Sound knowledge of global Transaction Banking and Securities Services products preferred

• A strong degree of independence and self-motivation

• Fluency in spoken English is essential

• Excellent working skills with MS office tools, especially good at advanced Excel and PowerPoint

• Working knowledge of professional information services like Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters etc. preferred