Avp - Flow Credit, Markets Front Office

**Business**:Flow Credit - Global Debt Markets,Markets Front Office, Bangalore**

**Open positions: 1**

**Role Title**:AVP - Flow Credit, Markets Front Office**

**Global Career Band: 5**

**Location **_(Country / City)_**:Bangalore**

**Recruiter Name**: Vijaya Sudhakar**

**The Opportunity**:

- The role requires a sound understanding of Credit Markets, especially High yield, and the ability to liaise with trading desks to ensure timely and accurate delivery of tasks / projects identified
- High analytical skills, problem solving ability, strong written and verbal communication skills is paramount
- Individual will be required to work extensively in an integrated team environment with the onshore HY Trading team based out of London and provide analytical support
- Work on multiples tasks/requests and ability to prioritize the work flow and meet pre-defined deadlines
- Be open to working varied shift hours/days based on business requirements

Specific responsibilities include:

- Real time analytical support on credit situations to the trading desk, by analysing a variety of HY / stressed situations. Core product outputs being credit “Tear Sheets” and “Financial Models”
- Provide high quality credit analytics with granular views around credit situations, where a deeper level of understanding is required / for key desk axes / positions.
- Depth of analysis, foundation for recommendations and clarity of opinions are critical
- Formulating a high quality RV opinion on credits and defending those opinions in both oral & written communication
- Keep the desk up to date with specific news flow
- Preparation and formatting of presentations / management information for desk use
- Collating information / data sets primarily using Bloomberg and other databases

**What you’ll do**:
**Principal Accountabilities: Key activities and decision making areas Typical Targets and Measures**

**Impact on the Business**:

- Perform in-depth analysis of financial statements, company profiling, data mining and analysis, preparation of presentations/reports
- Monitor the market for news flows and events and provide commentary
- Maintain internal databases and ensure data consistency and accuracy
- Multi-tasking by working on multiple tasks/assignment simultaneously
- Accurate reports with consistent formatting
- Manage strict timelines and proactively manage work priorities so that the work remains relavent.

**Customers / Stakeholders**:

- Key resources in Credit Trading in London - including Regional Heads and associated resources
- Internal Collaboration - Develops close and effective working relationships within respective Regions/ Countries/Functions /Businesses

Leads a Customer / Stakeholder-Centred Culture:

- Champions the development and delivery of initiatives to deliver outstanding customer service and improve customer / stakeholder advocacy
- Proactively leads research into external markets and competitors to identify and share ways to differentiate and deliver value to our customers / stakeholders in line with HSBC strategy
- Promotes the most appropriate and sustainable solution for our customers even when this may not be the most profitable short term solution for HSBC
- Deepens customer / stakeholder insight by gathering information from many sources and uses it to shape HSBC’s approach to our customers / stakeholders
- Feedback from Key Markets stakeholders
- Ability to turn around deliverables within pre-decided deadlines

**Leadership & Teamwork**:

- Responsible for ensuring seamless communication and teamwork between resources in Onshore locations and counterpart resources in Bangalore
- Builds strong relationships with counterpart resources in Onshore locations
- Build relationships with Global Front Office
- Contribute to team development, effectiveness and success by sharing knowledge and good practice, working collaboratively with others to create a productive, diverse and supportive working environment
- Establishing robust and sustainable markets capability in service centre
- Effective support within the team and ability to step up

**Operational Effectiveness & Control**
- Suggest ideas and contribute to implementing actions that will improve quality or the way teams and individuals work together
- Suggest trading strategies, balance sheet optimisation and liquidity management ideas
- Adhere to HSBC policy, procedures and control requirements applicable to day-to-day working, exceptional and project activities, and raise any concerns about actual or potential issues promptly, in line with reporting and escalation procedures
- Process improvement initiatives
- Feedback from front office

**Major Challenges**
- First offshoring of Markets Front Office roles so strong support and guidance will be required for the business
- A rapidly changing regulatory environment with extensive impacts on the Markets businesses
- A high risk and sensitive set of functions potentially to be offshored so it