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Fixed Income Desk - Team member - West

Kotak Securities · Remote

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Collected role description

Role overview

Fixed Income Desk - Team member - West at Kotak Securities

Responsibilities

  • Execute fixed income trades efficiently across a range of instruments, including government bonds, corporate bonds, money market instruments, and derivatives.
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory and internal guidelines during trade execution.
  • Provide insights and recommendations on yield curves, credit spreads, and market liquidity.
  • Provide Bond valuations before trading of bonds

Required qualifications

  • Skills/Expertise required
  • Experience of 2-4 years in fixed income dealing
  • Proven track record in executing fixed income bond trades.
  • Age criteria
  • Between 21 – 30 yrs

Preferred qualifications and skills

  • Prior experience in fixed income – corporate bond market space, is preferred.
  • Certifications in financial markets (e.g., CFA, FRM, or NISM certifications) are preferred.

Employment details

  • Location: India

Additional role details

  • Trade Execution and Market Interaction
  • Monitor live market activity, identify trading opportunities, and negotiate with brokers for best execution.
  • Maintain and strengthen relationships with market intermediaries and counterparties.
  • Should be well versed with making bond cash flows for g-sec, sdl, plain vanilla and/or structured bonds.
  • Market Research and Analysis
  • Stay updated on macroeconomic trends, interest rate movements, and fixed income market developments.
  • Ensuring inputting of trades in the system within prescribed timelines while coordinating with stakeholders.
  • Necessary approvals (for buy / sell down) to be taken from authorized person for facilitating smooth trades.
  • Characteristics
  • Motivated and hard working
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Able to logically think through problems to arrive at solutions
  • Reliable, consistent and able to deliver in tough timelines
  • Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of fixed income markets, instruments, and macroeconomic factors.
  • Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact with brokers, internal and external stakeholders.
  • Proficient at MS Office (Word, Excel, Power point)
  • Team Player: Collaborative approach to working with the fund management team and other departments.
  • Education qualification
  • A degree in Financial markets/ commerce with min 60% marks

Collected experience requirement

2-4 years