Deutsche Bank - Associate/Team Lead - Indexing/ETF/Rebalancing

Job Title - Operation Specialist (APM)

Location - Mumbai, India

Role Description:

The Portfolio Analyst supports the Portfolio Manager in monitoring portfolio performance, conducting statistical and performance analyses and producing investor reports. Applying excellent financial, mathematical and statistical skills they work with complex databases and quantitative tools to assess, reconcile and attribute portfolio performance. The Portfolio Analyst ensures Portfolio performance is transparent to key stakeholders and monitors adherence to the appropriate governance guidelines, including any regulatory/legal restrictions that may impact the portfolio.

Your Key Responsibilities:

- Work closely with the European and US Passive Portfolio Management team.

- Responsible for stakeholder expectations.

- Monitor index changes and corporate actions and portfolio cash flow analysis.

- Calculate Net Asset Value (NAV) and Portfolio Composition File (PCF) reconciliations.

- Analyze performance and production of performance attribution on a regular basis.

- Control risk exposure

- Interactions with external third parties (Index providers, Valuation agent, Custodian...) and internal department (Middle Office, Risk, Compliance...)

Your Skills and Experience:

- Post-graduate or international equivalent experience, a CFA qualification would be an advantage.

- Experience in managing a team will be added advantage.

- Prior relevant work experience of minimum 5 years.

- Good knowledge/ previous work experience in Equity / Fixed income assistant portfolio management role.

- Basic knowledge of Equity / Fixed instruments and derivatives.

- Proficient in Microsoft Office, Bloomberg and Reuters.

- Engineering/mathematical or banking /financial/economic literacy.

- Experience of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

Personal Characteristics:

- Highly motivated and self-sufficient, with a strong willingness to learn and take on new challenges.

- Superior communication skills (written and verbal) with strict attention to detail.

- Leadership skills and High level of comfort in dealing with different levels of management.

- Diligent, efficient and able to manage multiple conflicting deliverables including working under pressure.

- Comfortable in a technical environment and with the general mathematical concepts of finance.