Fixed Income Index Operations and Pricing Controls - Associate

JPMorgan Chase · ✓ Verified company
📍 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site · Full-time

About the role

Description  You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in Fixed Income Index Operations and Pricing Controls. You have found the right team. As an Associate (Manager) Professional / Lead within our Index Calculation Agent team (Mumbai), you will spend each day defining, refining and delivering set goals for our firm. Job Responsibilities - Validate daily third‑party price capture for fixed income securities using multiple market sources. - Investigate price and valuation movements and explain what is driving changes. - Partner with pricing vendors to resolve data issues quickly and reduce operational risk. - Monitor daily production runs, identify breaks, and coordinate with technology partners to restore processing. - Prepare and share daily pricing and market impact summaries with clear context. - Produce month‑end index rebalance and composition reporting, incorporating new issuance and corporate actions. - Analyze valuation movements within client portfolios on a daily and monthly basis and highlight key drivers. - Complete daily, monthly, and ad‑hoc tasks accurately and on deadline, with strong attention to detail. - Handle client queries promptly and professionally, ensuring timely follow‑up and closure. - Participate in and present during monthly client meetings, communicating results in a client‑friendly way. - Improve pricing controls, procedures, and documentation to strengthen the end‑to‑end process. Required qualifications, capabilities and skills - Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience). - 8+ years of relevant experience in fixed income operations, valuations, pricing, index operations, or a closely related area. - Strong understanding of fixed income instruments and their key characteristics (for example pricing conventions, cash flows, and lifecycle events). - Experience using market data sources and pricing platforms (for example Bloomberg and Refinitiv) and reconciling differences across sources. - Strong analytical skills, you can isolate issues, identify root cause, and drive items to resolution. - Strong communication skills, you can explain outcomes clearly to stakeholders and clients. - Strong ownership mindset, you proactively track actions to completion and escalate when needed. - Ability to collaborate across global teams and time zones. - Strong spreadsheet skills and comfort working with large datasets. - Strong attention to detail and ability to perform under daily cutoffs and month‑end deadlines. - Strong teamwork skills with the ability to lead through influence. Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills - Experience with automation or data tooling (for example Python, Visual Basic for Applications, or Structured Query Language). - Chartered Financial Analyst designation is a plus. - Master of Business Administration is preferred.