Role Purpose
Lead the Fixed Income Indices business by driving product strategy, benchmark governance, client engagement, business growth and operational excellence. The role is responsible for strengthening CRISIL's fixed income benchmark franchise, expanding index adoption across institutional investors and developing cutting-edge index solutions aligned to evolving market and regulatory needs.
Required Experience: 9 to 12 years
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
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📌 Associate Director Fixed Income (Mumbai)
🏢 Crisil
📍 Mumbai