Senior Associate/Associate Specialist - Equity Research Analyst

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 theme s
• 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

Qualification:-

• Candidate should have relevant experience of at least 1-5 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

Interested candidates can share their profile on:- ramkrishna.singh@thesmartcube.com