Audit - Valuation & Analytics - Fixed Income Consultant

This role involves providing valuation and analytical services for financial instruments, maintaining market data, responding to inquiries, analyzing market moves, and driving process improvements through automation. It requires proficiency in Python and SQL, with basic familiarity with AI-assisted coding.

What you'd actually do

  1. Maintaining vendor market data to support timely, accurate valuations and participating in quarterly due diligence with third-party data providers.
  2. Responding to inquiries from Deloitte teams globally (US, EU, Asia) on platform functionality, pricing methodologies, inquiry workflows, local markets, and financial products.
  3. Analyzing market price moves and recent transactions and implementing quality control processes.
  4. Driving process improvements and developing tools to improve efficiency through automation and standardization.
  5. Collaborating with audit engagement teams and internal technology team and communicating valuation concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Building and managing relationships and communications with team members.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, information systems, business analytics, mathematics, or a related field.
  • 1+ years of professional experience.
  • Strong academic track record (minimum GPA of 3.0).
  • Professional experience and familiarity with valuations such as: Independent price verification, Accounting valuations, Development of internal models, Evaluation of Level 3 valuations, Review of transactions, Analysis of market price moves
  • Working knowledge of financial products (e.g., fixed income, derivatives, structured products), financial modeling, and fair value hierarchy under U.S GAAP.
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
  • excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree in related field experience.
  • Professional experience and familiarity with valuation procedures across all asset classes (equity, fixed income, derivatives, structured products) is a plus.
  • 1+ years of relevant experience in mutual funds, hedge funds, fund administration/services, or Product control/Independent Pricing Team from a bank.
  • Progress on professional certification such as Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Financial Risk Manager (FRM) or Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
  • Experience with AWS and Visual Studio Code is a plus.
  • Experience with pricing vendors such as Refinitiv-Eikon, IHS Markit, Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC, etc., is a plus.
  • basic familiarity with AI-assisted coding.

What the JD emphasized

  • valuation of financial instruments
  • quantitative analytics
  • automation and standardization