Crisil - Lead Valuation Control Specialist

About CRISIL Limited

CRISIL is a leading, agile, and innovative global analytics company driven by its mission of making markets function better.

It is Indias foremost provider of ratings, data, research, analytics, and solutions with a strong track record of growth, culture of innovation, and global footprint.

It has delivered independent opinions, actionable insights, and efficient solutions to over 100,000 customers through businesses that operate from India, the US, the UK, Argentina, Poland, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Switzerland, Japan, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

It is majority owned by S&P Global Inc, a leading provider of transparent and independent ratings, benchmarks, analytics and data to the capital and commodity markets worldwide.

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About CRISIL Global Research & Risk Solutions (GR&RS)

CRISIL GR&RS is a leading provider of high-end research, risk and analytics services. We are the world's largest provider of equity and fixed-income research support to banks and buy-side firms. We are also the foremost provider of end-to-end risk and analytics services that include quantitative support, front and middle office support, and regulatory and business process change management support to trading, risk management, regulatory and CFO functions at world's leading financial institutions. We also provide extensive support to banks in financial crime and compliance analytics. We are leaders in research support, and risk and analytics support, providing it to more than 75 global banks, 50 buy-side firms covering hedge funds, private equity, and asset management firms. Our research support enables coverage of over 3,300 stocks and 3,400 corporates and financial institutions globally. We support more than 15 bank holding companies in their regulatory requirements and submissions. We operate from 7 research centers in Argentina, China, India, and Poland, and across several time zones and languages.

Department - GR&RS

Job Description

We are looking for a talented and experienced analyst with sound knowledge in the Finance domain, especially Valuation Control, for one of our Dubai-based Investment Banking Clients.

• Review the existing Valuation Control infrastructure, methodologies, and take ownership of the end-to-end workflows, including the identification of dependencies and risks
• Responsible for the implementation of valuation control activities such as Price Verification (IPV), Fair Value Adjustments (FVA), Prudent Valuation Adjustments (PVA), and Fair Value Hierarchy (FVH) across the banks portfolio
• Responsible for implementing an effective front to back control framework with a focus on valuation controls activities such as IPV, FVA, PVA, and FVH
• Standardize the valuation control infrastructure and improve process controls
• Support internal stakeholders, and work with them to implement valuation control requirements to meet the banks policies and regulatory standards
• Build processes to efficiently source, store and analyse pricing data from both internal and external sources
• Support both agile and waterfall project frameworks
• Coordinate and collaborate with Business Finance, Product Control, Front Office, Quants and Technology teams to drive the changes in various finance systems
• Analyse large data sets to establish the lineage of various data points
• Develop reports, and present to various project stakeholders on the testing done, and issues in
• 12+ years of experience and a strong understanding of Finance and Risk domains
• Good understanding of Finance infrastructure, processes and controls
• Working knowledge of regulatory frameworks provided by CBUAE and external bodies like the BIS with special focus on valuation control activities
• Experience in product control or Finance change projects is highly desirable
• Experience in implementing solutions for Valuation Control areas such as IPV, Fair Valuations, and Fair Value Hierarchy
• Fundamental understanding of FX, IR, Credit, Commodities, and Structured Trading products along with a strong knowledge of the various valuation methodologies and the fair value levelling process for them
• Excellent communication and documentation skills to coordinate with business and technology stakeholders and team members
• Knowledge of the Calypso trade booking and pricing system is highly desirable
• Proficiency in SQL, and strong data analysis skills
• Exposure to Python is desirable

Open Positions - 1

Mandatory Skills - Valuation Control

Location - India

Education Qualification - STEM

Experience - 12 to 15 years

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