Cognizant - Team Lead - Global Fixed Income

Team Lead - Global Fixed Income

The role is of an associate with a Global Fixed Income Strategy team responsible for formulating and presenting the firm's view on developed markets sovereign bonds across Europe, US and APAC

Responsibilities include (but not limited to) :

- Playing an active role in driving the research process

- Assisting the team in generating investment ideas and building strategy recommendations, report writing and marketing efforts

- Responding effectively and independently delivering on ad-hoc research requests and questions from analysts

- Developing basic spreadsheet models tailored to client requirements

- Performing data analysis and reporting findings to relevant stakeholders

- Independently delivering non-thematic research publications

- Building and maintaining databases

- Tracking and collating market impacting news from multiple sources

Requirements :

- Post Graduate Degree in Finance, Economics or related field

- 2-3 years of total working experience in financial markets, preferably in fixed income research

- Strong background in economic/statistical modelling is preferred

- Excellent excel/ VBA skills

- Hands-on experience with market data systems (Bloomberg, Reuters, Haver etc)

- Advanced MS office skills

- Demonstrate ability to work on ad-hoc requests in strict deadlines

- Demonstrated ability to pick things up quickly, especially with regards to process led products

- A strong self-starter who is delivery focused with the ability to think laterally under pressure

- Excellent written and spoken English