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.