Merisis Advisors - Credit Research Analyst - Fixed Income PMS Team

About Merisis Advisors:

Merisis Advisors is one of India's leading investment banking firm offering independent advisory services on fund raising and M&A to emerging growth and mid-market segment corporate clients and institutional investors. Merisis means 'growth' and the company is committed to bring about growth for its clients. Their expertise covers fund raise and M&A services. Founded in 2010, Merisis has built a reputation for high quality results in this space especially in Technology, Consumer, Healthcare, Logistics, Fintech and associated sectors. To know about the transaction variety and client experience please visit www.merisisadvisors.com

Merisis is foraying into the Wealth Management space. We intend to cater to HNW and UHNW clients. Trust and long-term commitment forms the core of our strategy. We are seeking highly energetic, self-motivated individual with a passion to create wholistic, technology driven wealth management experience for its customers. Your excellent strategic thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills, superb people skills, along with effective stakeholder management and a keen eye for detail is what enables you to effectively manage and deliver results for a wide and diverse group of stakeholders. You will be self-motivated and able to effectively manage deadlines, consistently deliver on your numbers, deal with a multitude of different tasks concurrently and prioritize appropriately. In addition, you will possess excellent communication skills and demonstrate strong relationship building skills with both internal departments and external parties.

Job Profile:

- This Position is part of the Fixed Income PMS team

- Credit research across sectors (though predominantly the BFSI sector), for the potential Credit exposures in different Debt PMS strategies

- Extensive and detailed Credit research which will include evaluation of Management quality, business diversification, geographical diversification, financial parameters analysis, liability profile etc

- Analyzing the business model, identifying strengths, weakness, risks, understanding the revenue models and the corporate structure of the business

- Identifying potential upgrade/downgrade candidates, interacting with Rating agencies or the corporates and market intermediaries whenever required/possible

- Making written and oral presentations to internal IC committee

- Taking responsibility for the credit universe, ensuring timely reviews and recommending portfolio actions as required.

- Developing an internal Model which can be a quantitative output based on all the inputs which can be used as a MIS for portfolio overall quality / trigger point for portfolio actions

- Back up Fixed Income dealer.

Skills and Competencies:

- Strong analytical, accounting, and quantitative skills

- Must possess strong financial analysis skills, including developing forecasts, peer/ industry analysis and ability to identify key drivers for any given case/ credit.

- Must be a strong team player and possess excellent inter-personal skills, with an ability to integrate quickly into an established team and to deal with colleagues and external parties across the region

Preferred Educational Qualifications and Work experience:

- CA along with MBA / CFA

- 2-3 yrs of work experience, preferably in credit rating/credit appraisal/ financial research in an institution

Location - Mumbai