Roles and responsibilities
- Candidate will be supporting buy-side/sell-side analysts focused on equity research projects such as building/maintaining financial models, writing investment thesis and conducting valuation (based on DCF, Relative Valuation, SoTP, etc.)
- Preparing comprehensive financial models with forecasting and valuation based on
- understanding of company KPIs and industry drivers
- Performing data-intensive tasks such as maintaining sector-specific databases, and preparing custom dashboards and database- driven screeners
- Contributing to various kinds of equity reports including earnings notes, initiating coverage notes, sector notes, thematic notes
- Supporting the client on ad-hoc research tasks relating to companies, sectors or themes
- Supporting the client in various product and process development projects
- Relating latest developments in the capital market and sector to valuation of the coverage stocks
- Communicating with the client team independently for daily tasks and ad-hoc requests
- Contributing to or working on challenging pilot projects
Ideal Candidate
- Candidate should have relevant experience of at least 1-4 years in financial and/or investment research in a KPO or advisory Firm
- The person should have completed MBA (Finance) or CFA or CA
- Strong grasp of financial concepts and accounting and their application in financial analysis and valuation
- Should possess experience in financial modelling, forecasting, valuation and writing investment research
- Must possess expertise in using financial research databases (Bloomberg, Capital IQ, Thomson ONE)
- Expert understanding of MS-Office tools particularly advanced Excel
- Strong business acumen and problem solving skills
- Excellent communication (both written and oral) and presentation skills
- Aware of latest macroeconomic trends and their impact on global capital markets
- Able to quickly develop understanding on new sectors and identify key drivers or risk factors
- Desire to work in a fast paced, challenging environment
- Mature individual with a professional work ethic, and high degree of ownership and accountability