Rating Organisation
Website:
rating.com.sa
Industries: Financial Services
Job details:
Key Responsibilities
1. Product Strategy & Innovation
- Develop the long-term product roadmap for fixed income indices.
- Conceptualize new benchmark families across government securities, corporate bonds, money market, target maturity, ESG, factor-based, duration and credit strategies.
- Work closely with valuation, research and analytics teams to identify new product opportunities.
- Drive commercialization of innovative index concepts.
2. Business Development Support
- Build relationships with CIOs, fund managers, product teams and risk teams.
- Partner with Sales and Business Development teams during client engagements.
- Present index methodologies and product capabilities to asset managers, insurers, pension funds, PMS, AIFs and wealth managers.
- Identify opportunities for customized benchmarks and investable index solutions.
4. Benchmark Governance & Regulatory Oversight
- Ensure compliance with the regulations impacting the business
- Oversee index methodologies, consultation papers and governance committee requirements.
- Coordinate with Legal, Compliance and Risk functions on regulatory matters.
- Drive high standards of benchmark integrity and transparency.
5. Index Operations & Delivery
- Oversee daily index production and publication.
- Ensure operational resilience, quality controls and business continuity.
- Continuously improve operational efficiency through automation and process enhancement.
6. Team Leadership
- Lead and develop the index team.
- Build technical capability across methodology, analytics and operations.
7. Strategic Initiatives
- Work with strategic partners such as exchanges, asset managers and benchmark users.
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI and technology to improve index development and operational efficiency.
Preferred Experience
- Strong understanding of Indian fixed income markets.
- Experience in benchmark construction, capital markets, portfolio management, valuation or investment research.
- Knowledge of mutual funds, insurance, pension and AIF ecosystem.
- Ability to engage with senior institutional clients.
- Strong product thinking with commercial orientation.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and strategic initiatives.
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