Aranca - Manager - Investment Research

About Aranca :

Website - www.aranca.com

- Founded in 2003, Aranca is a global research, analytics and advisory firm empowering decision makers from Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, and high potential start-ups with intelligence and insights to make better business decisions.

- Our expertise across - Investment Research & Analytics, Business Research & Advisory, Valuation Advisory, Technology Intelligence & IP Research, Procurement & Supply Chain Intelligence practices, helps us ask the right questions, find the right answers, analyze the facts and present our unbiased conclusions and insights that help our clients.

- We enable this by bringing to play the right mix of the best data, the best methodologies, and the best talent and build a Custom Intelligence Blueprint for our clients.

- We work tirelessly to help our clients take decisions without the fear that would otherwise frustrate decision-making because of rote research, ordinary methods, uninspired inputs and cookie-cutter processes.

- Our people are passionate about helping our clients decide fearlessly and are all domain experts well qualified to enable your decision-making.

- We ask the right questions, find the right answers, analyze the facts and present our unbiased conclusions and insights that help our clients execute better strategies.

- The company management is led by Hemendra Aran (CEO & Founder) along with Madhusudan Rajagopalan (COO & Co-Founder), Kannan Siva (Executive Vice President - Operations)

JOB SPECIFICATION :

Position : Manager/ Senior Manager

Location : Mumbai / Gurgaon

Reporting to : AVP - Investment Research

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Assume leadership role to manage and execute research projects covering area such as:

- Fundamental and quantitative research across equity and corporate finance (investment banking & private equity)

- Other areas addressing specific client requests and compiling diagnostic / strategic analytical studies / thematic white papers, research / analysis in number of areas

- Preparing research notes on companies / sectors / themes as mandated by clients or by Aranca's original research team

- Responsible for developing internal methodologies and helping in developing training modules and process improvement initiatives

- Operational responsibility for project teams, including review of & guidance to teams and QC on projects, ensuring high scores on customer satisfaction surveys

- Responsible for addressing ongoing people management issues of utilization and productivity of team members

- Responsible for helping provide team members with a clear career path and effective guidance and coaching

- Manage client relationships, and assist management team in identifying / developing opportunities to grow the relationship

- Work closely with management team in developing and implementing strategies for new business lines, in business development support and in managing the company's growth

- Display Aranca's capabilities on various platforms to prospective and existing clients

POSITION REQUIREMENTS :

Functional Requirements :

- MBAs (Finance) from top tier institutes, CFAs, CA rankers

- 6-9 years of experience, preferably in research, or related areas such as consulting or analytics

- Expected to demonstrate expertise in at least a few industry sectors or areas of research.

- Strong project management, time management and multi-tasking capabilities

- Strong knowledge of finance, valuation modeling capabilities and writing skills

- Demonstrated ability to manage workflow and resources

Soft skills & Behavioral skills :

- Top notch analytical and communication skills

- Exceptional writing skills, including writing samples

- Strong work ethic

- Detail oriented

- Strong interpersonal abilities

- Pro-active and highly motivated

- Do what it takes- attitude to meet aggressive deadlines and manage team issues