Trading Enabler Associate at Deutsche Bank, Mumbai | ₹8L-18L

Job Description

Credit Solutions EU (CS EU) operates across Illiquid Credit Trading, Liquid Asset Financing, Structured Credit Financing, and Insurance Risk Management. The desk is looking for a candidate who can support a wide range of transactions including financing, total return swaps, ABS/CLO instruments, and related products.

The role focuses on pre-trade and post-trade analysis, trade monitoring, and risk management across various structured transactions.

Role Overview

The Trading Enabler Associate supports the trading desk in idea generation, pricing of new trades, booking activities, and performance monitoring.

• Perform data analysis to identify potential trading opportunities and strategies.
• Analyze economic, industry, and company information and build detailed financial models.
• Support risk management activities, including risk analysis and scenario modeling for structured products.
• Handle reporting and trade capture, and evaluate rule based hedging strategies.
• Develop quantitative models and automation tools for pricing.
• Model structured financing transactions and adjust models to reflect regulatory or metric changes.
• Review legal covenants, termination triggers, and trade conditions to ensure risk capture in documentation.
• Conduct fundamental credit analysis and cash flow waterfall modeling of ABS, RMBS, CLO, and other securitized assets.
• Track and explain margin requirements, coordinate with collateral management teams on margin calls, and assist in dispute resolution.
• Work with other front office desks and internal teams involved in the trade lifecycle including risk, PnL, middle office, finance, and valuation groups.
• Enhance infrastructure used for pricing, risk management, P&L monitoring, and analytics.
• Monitor and manage funding requirements across active trades.
• Develop models that help determine accurate capital requirements for structured products traded by the desk.

Desk Overview

LAF Trading provides collateralized liquidity solutions to a variety of counterparties including hedge funds, banks, credit managers, private equity funds, and institutional investors. Collateral may include asset backed securities, structured products, loan portfolios, covered bonds, corporate or government bonds, and other liquid or illiquid instruments across bilateral or triparty transactions.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor and manage an existing portfolio of collateralized lending and borrowing transactions with tenors ranging from open positions to five to ten years.
• Generate reports and identify trade ideas by tracking risk exposures such as IR01, FX, and CS01.
• Support complex transactions and approval processes alongside senior traders while coordinating with structuring and legal teams.
• Interact with internal functions including settlement, operations, credit risk management, and market risk teams.
• Provide management information and escalate significant issues to team leadership when required.
• Assist in the continuous development of infrastructure that supports front to back trade processing.