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Job Title : Associate Consultant

Function : I-Radar
Location : Gurgaon

>> OVERVIEW.
KPMG is a leading professional services firms with over 156,000 people working together to deliver
value in more than 150 countries by providing deep industry insights in Audit, Tax & Advisory. The firm
recorded over USD 23 billion in revenue in 2013.
KGS is KPMGs global delivery platform that is an integral part of the firms strategy to enhance
innovation, build scalability, and improve profitability for its Clients (Member Firms within the KPMG
Network of firms worldwide) Its a joint venture setup between KPMG INTERNATIONAL, Europe, US &
India as a global capability hub to provide professional services to KPMG member firms. The set up has
over 6000 people focused on specialized knowledge services & development.

>> DEPARTMENT INFORMATION & ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES.

The iRADAR Services are uniquely developed to meet the challenges of analyzing complex portfolios,
new financial products and investment strategies to gain transparancy in various investment processes.
Currently, the team support ca. 400 clients in 19 countries worldwide.
The team is focused on providing a coverage as high as possible and it is based on transparent
reference prices. This procedure focuses to achieve this at a reasonable effort. The pricing procedure
is basically divided into three steps as outlined in the following table.
We are recruiting for an Associate Consultant in the team. In order to ensure a successful cooperation
between the team members in Delhi and Frankfurt the job applicants have to fulfil specific
requirements. In the following table these characteristics are labelled as a must have.
In addition, several applicants will dispose of expertise or abilities which exceed our basic
requirements but are helpful to perform the intended job activities. Although we are not able to list all
of these characteristics we just want to take the opportunity to present some examples. These are
specified under the heading nice to have.

2015 KPMG Resource Centre Private Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of India and a member firm of the KPMG
network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative, a Swiss entity. All rights reserved.

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To succeed in this demanding role you will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
Topic
Education

Experience

Must have
Graduate degree in business
sciences, natural sciences
(mathematics, physics) or
engineering sciences

Nice to have
Doctors degree in the
sciences mentioned in the left
colums

1-3 years of post graduate

working experience in the
financial services industry

More than 1 year working

experience
(CFA), Financial Risk Manager
(FRM), Certificate of
Quantitative Finance (CQF)

Product-/Valuation Know-how
Fixed income instruments
(e.g. Government or
Corporate Bonds without
embedded derivatives)
uments,
medium complex (e.g.
Convertibles, Municipal
Bonds, Inflation Linked Bonds,
Rating Linked Bonds)
Backed Securities, Mortgage
Backed Securities)
plain vanilla (e.g. all types of
Interest Rate Swaps,
Forwards, Caps, Floors,
Swaptions)

Fixed income, high complex

(e.g. CMS Bonds, Snowballs,
Credit Linked Notes, Target
Redemption Notes,)
Securitisations, Monte Carlo
methods
medium and high complex
(z.B. Constant Maturity
Swaps, Spread Ladder Swaps,
Quanto Options)
basket / Synthetic CDOs

vanilla/single name
Forwards, Options, Cross
Currency Swaps)

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network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative, a Swiss entity. All rights reserved.

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Qualification:
Topic
Technical and soft skills

Must have

Nice to have

Open-minded
languages
Proficient use of MS Excel
including Macro programming
(e.g, Visual Basic)

SQL queries
Bloomberg

Undergraduate degree in Engineering / Economics / Commerce / Mathematics

Post graduate in Business Administration (MBA / PGDBM / CFA)
Both the undergrad and the Masters SHOULD BE from a Top tier university.

>> PEOPLE BENEFITS

A strong learning culture.

Quarterly rewards and recognition programme Encore
Comprehensive medical insurance coverage for staff and family.
Expansive general and accidental coverage for staff.

2015 KPMG Resource Centre Private Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of India and a member firm of the KPMG
network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative, a Swiss entity. All rights reserved.