Associate - Equity Research/Regulatory Research - Banking Sector

Role:

Looking for an Associate(AVP)- Equity Research covering Banking Sector

Research is a newly created global function that will focus on:

- Financial analysis and competitive information, evaluation of key trends and macro-economic and political and regulatory factors and contribution to product expertise

- Establish creative and multiple sourcing channels for data, news and information, through internal and external efforts

- Support data sourcing and development of data methodologies

- Provide direct input to Business Development effort, on both a macro and client-specific basis

- Contribute to client segmentation and strategy assessment

- Enrich calling program content

- Establish better response to news and market issues

- Contribute to Thought Leadership output, leveraging content from across the Firm

Responsibilities Include:

- Conduct fundamental research on global regulatory matters

- Review and analyze existing, new, and pending rules and regulations

- Develop relevant data sources in support of research

- Maintain regular probing and mining of various primary source documents

- Track trends of relevance to Firm clients and client prospects

- Support wide range of research outputs

- Effectively communicate, both verbal and written, key summary findings and analysis

- Contribute to special projects

- Contribute towards specific research papers, forums, and thought leadership initiatives

Key Characteristics of the Candidate:

- Strong creative and analytical skills

- Ability to conduct self-directed research and fact-finding exercises, leveraging internal and external sources

- Demonstrated experience and intuition to understand government fiscal agencies and their programs

- Ability to perform quantitative analysis to distil raw data into usable information

- Familiarity with financial statements and financial report analysis

- Comfort working with data and data sources

- Familiarity with sources and providers of research

- Excellent writing skills

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills

- Unquestioned integrity and the highest ethical standards

Qualifications:

- Base of 6-8 years research and policy experience

- BA/BS degree sufficient; master's degree preferred

- References and prior work experience is critical

- Explicit research experience and publications not mandatory but beneficial

- Proven personal production track record in qualitative and quantitative writing and other output on complex topics.