Job Description – Senior Analyst- Forex Risk Advisory

Job Title: Senior Analyst – Risk advisory

Location – Mumbai H.O Office

Experience – Minimum 2 to Maximum 5 years

Job Summary

 Deliver high quality advisory services on FX markets to clients, protecting them against FX

risk. Analyze the business and risk profile of the corporate client and articulate the

strategy/approach for managing the FX risk and accordingly provide recommendations and

support in FX risk management. It’s a front desk job, involving lot of interaction with

corporate client’s treasury team and CFO and other stake holders.

 Sale of Risk advisory services and Consultancy Services as per various schemes of Mecklai

Financial.

 Delivery and sales of all services offered by Mecklai Financial Services for e.g. Advisory

Support, Policy formulation, Policy review, Hedge accounting and quarterly reporting of

Derivative, Online MIS service, treasury tech solution etc.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

 He/she will be responsible for tracking currency markets (including allied markets and

events) and develop currency strategies. i.e. currency views for intra-day, 1m, 3m, 6m to a

year in USDINR and all other majors.

 This will require he/she to employ sound Technical and Fundamental Analysis.

 These currency strategies will then need to be translated to actionable hedging/trading

strategies for clients based on their risk appetite and existing currency positions and most

importantly client’s objective/treasury mandate.

 Driving and closing the sales of all services offered by Mecklai from the leads generated.

He/she will do this in conjunction with his/her reporting Manager in most cases.

 He/she will have to acquire Clients and service them, whom he/she need to call per agreed

charter (daily, fortnightly, monthly etc.) and be their extended market risk support partner.

 End-To-End responsibility for these clients will be expected spanning invoicing, fee upgrades,

relationship management, renewal of the account, enhancing the existing relationship,

delivery as expressed above.

 Proper back up of all clients allotted to him/her in the absence of the primary/secondary

dealer.

Skills and Qualifications Required

 MBA in Finance/CFA/FRM/CA (Candidate shall be willing to make a career into consulting).

 Minimum 3-5 years of experience

 Practical Domain expertise in Currency Markets. Knowledge of Financial products like

forwards, options, swaps etc.

 An innate ability to appreciate and understand business workings. For e.g. Product Margins

of clients, sales cycles, working capital constraints, MIS, etc. This is important as all clients

servicing will be situated within the crucible of their business.

 Proper and thorough knowledge of the fundamental and technical analysis.

 Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

 Strong Communication (written/oral) and Relationship Skills

 Have a sense of urgency to client support needs

 Thorough knowledge of the various avenues of client support that Mecklai offers

Company Overview:

Mecklai Financial is India's premier FX risk management consultancy, headquartered in Mumbai with branches in Bangalore, Chennai, and Delhi. With over 40 years of deep engagement in financial markets, we have advised over 10,000 companies on effective FX risk management strategies. Our unique value proposition combines real-time market insights with a comprehensive understanding of corporate business processes.