Role & Responsibilities:
As a Team lead you will:
- Manage a 4-member team comprising country risks specialists
- Manage the Powai workflow and provide guidance to the team in coordination with global stakeholders
- Represent the team within Powai and regions in various forums
- Conduct analysis of fiscal, economic, political, regulatory environment, external sector and other features of a portfolio of countries, sovereigns, sub-sovereigns and supranationals to assign credit ratings and respond to country risk warning triggers
- Form and communicate relevant risk view to risk managers - in credit risk, market risk and beyond - and in committees through a variety of channels, including written pieces, data visualization and presentations
- Manage risk reporting, portfolio metrics, risk framework ratios, data integrity, and risk-return measurement for the portfolio
- Contribute to process enhancements of managing country team data, organization etc.
Mandatory Desired Domain:
- Graduate in Economics, Political Science, Finance, or other relevant discipline
- 8-10 years of experience in economic research/credit risk roles
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Entrepreneurial mind set, with ability to be resourceful and streamline processes
- Strong analytical skills and flexible thinking across disciplines
- Ability to work independently and as a team member in an unstructured environment
- Excellent communication skills able to communicate clearly and succinctly, both verbally and in writing
- Self-starter and has willingness to work hard and flexibly in a rewarding environment
- Post-graduate degree
- International experience and languages
- Experience of managing small teams
- Applied research background
- Advanced data manipulation and visualization skills
