Associate Quantitative Analyst

Structured Finance, Associate Quant Analyst (Mumbai)

The Team: DBRS Morningstar is a global credit ratings business with about 800 employees in eight offices globally. Formed through the acquisition of DBRS by Morningstar, Inc., the credit ratings business is the fourth-largest provider of credit ratings in the world. DBRS Morningstar is committed to empowering investor success, serving the market through leading-edge technology, and raising the bar for the industry. DBRS Morningstar is a market leader in Canada, the U.S. and Europe in multiple asset classes. DBRS Morningstar rates more than 4,000 issuers and 56,000 securities worldwide, and is driven to bring more clarity, diversity, and responsiveness to the ratings process.

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Credit Operations Mumbai Analytics team enables and supports the efficient and effective delivery of credit ratings/information to the market with its specialized skills and assets, consistent frameworks, and economies of scale. We collaborate with stakeholders to build creative, impactful solutions and offer services for the business and the market.
 

About the Role: DBRS Morningstar Structured Finance team is looking for candidate with good problem solving, analytical & technical mindset. As an Associate Quant Analyst, you will work with team to automate data analysis processes to include document downloads, data storage, build and run data analytics to aid rating, research, and surveillance process, develop and enhance data analysis and workflow optimization tools; assist with special projects/initiatives, as needed. Proficiency in Python, SQL and VBA will be needed. This role will provide unique opportunities for mastering the key aspects of our business including in-depth collateral and deal analysis. This position is based in our Navi Mumbai office.
 

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with Internal & external team to deliver projects and services.
• Perform, when possible, quantitative analysis in order to measure outcomes.
• Assist the team with transforming, improving and integrating data, depending on the business requirements.
• Combining the data result sets across multiple sources
• Understand core concepts around data storage and access specifically in structured data systems such as databases (SQL, Athena, AWS S3)
• Develop and maintain API’s to integrate internal and external data sources.
• Participate actively in the design and build phases, to aim at producing high quality deliverables.
• Have a mindset to bring about process efficiencies and ideate automations
• Collect, organize, and study data from internal and external sources for use in criteria development, ratings, and research reports.
• Take ownership of the tasks with focus on quality and accuracy of the deliverables
• Demonstrate strong learning curve
• Highly organized and efficient, with ability to multi-task and meet tight deadlines
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and company policies and procedures

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or other quantitative discipline, Economics, Finance or Management Studies.
• Masters, CFA or CFA program enrollment are a plus
• 2-3 years of experience working with financial products using Python.
• Proficiency in Python / Anaconda, Data science stack (Jupyter, Pandas, NumPy), Microsoft Excel, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and MSSQL.
• Proficiency in object-oriented programming is a plus.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Highly motivated, self-starter who is keen to learn, has a positive attitude and a strong work ethic
• Ability to manage multiple tasks at the same time and deliver results in a timely manner
• Good inter-personal skills and ability to participate/ contribute as a team player

Morningstar DBRS is an equal opportunity employer.

About Us

Morningstar DBRS is a leading provider of independent rating services and opinions for corporate and sovereign entities, financial institutions, and project and structured finance instruments globally. Rating more than 4,000 issuers and 60,000 securities, it is one of the top four credit rating agencies in the world.

Morningstar DBRS empowers investor success by bringing more transparency and a much-needed diversity of opinion in the credit rating industry. Our approach and size allow us to be nimble enough to respond to customers' needs in their local markets, but large enough to provide the necessary expertise and resources they require. Market innovators choose to work with us because of our agility, tech-forward approach, and exceptional customer service.

Morningstar DBRS is the next generation of credit ratings.

If you receive and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.

Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. While some positions are available as fully remote, we’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, typically three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you’ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.