About Axience:

- Axience is a professional business services firm, established with a credo of delivering "Integrated Bespoke Solutions" for our clients.

- Our vision is to "Impact our clients, colleagues and community with innovation, insight and empathy

-We provide high quality bespoke and boutique-style financial and business research services and have established ourselves as a well-regarded research firm with a strong clientele, board and management team

- Our main offices are located in Mumbai (India) with extended sales and execution capabilities in UAE, Canada and we plan to ramp up our teams in these places and farther

- We seek to hire and develop talent which is our industries' best in quality, efficiency, ambition and enthusiasm and love a fast paced, hard working environment

Investment and Financial Research:

- Axience is strategic resourcing and transformation partner for highly reputed financial services industry clients

- Axience supports investors in private and public markets across their functions and lifecycle from investor relation and capital formation to investment and portfolio management and finance and accounting.

- Private markets clients include institutional investors, private markets funds, asset and wealth managers as well as alternative credit investors.

- We also support investment banks and advisors across M&A, ECM, DCM and Sales/Trading and Research and provide client centricity and competition benchmarking services

- Our work is mix of ongoing retained outsourced analysts agreement or exciting front office equivalent ad-hoc projects/engagement; whatever is the nature of work, being a boutique firm we expect and only hire top 10% candidates defined by a mix of attributes

- Our financial services clients consider us provider of choice for small to mid-size dedicated outsourcing needs where a "Think and Execute" DNA is required.

- Analyst / Associate / Senior Associate: Investment and Financial Research Services

- Analysts to Senior Associates work on financial / investment research projects with responsibilities that may include (but not be limited to):

- Support public and private markets buy side clients such as private equity and debt funds, family offices, institutional investors and others across functions and tasks

- Investor relations, deal screening, investment summaries and memos, sector and company analysis, financial modelling / due diligence as bale as advanced portfolio value creation tasks

- Support investment banking clients with pitch books, information memorandums, target identification, financial modelling, trading and transaction comps, industry research

- Support sell / buy side equity and credit research clients in initiating coverage, annual / quarterly maintenance of models and reports, sector studies and various thematic reports

- Take full responsibility of end-to-end execution of projects with low levels of supervision required (although experienced team managers are always available for guidance)

- Conduct thorough self-review of all work and be able to clearly communicate about the structure and content of deliverables internally and externally

- Senior Associates are expected to manage multiple team members while being individual contributors and engagements and contribute significantly to firm building activities and typically have 5+ years of progressive, top quality experience with demonstrable skill sets in most work streams relatable to investment banking and public/private markets investment analysts.

- Senior Associates are eventually expected to manage 5 to 8 Analysts and Associates and multiple clients engagements

- Associates typically have 3+ years of experience and will manage 3 to 5 team members directly or supported by supervisors.

- Analysts have zero to three years experience supported by strong education, internships and exposures

Required skillset and characteristics:

- Exceptional developed and demonstrable research, analytical, financial modeling and presentation/story telling skills for Associates and Senior Associates and equivalent tested aptitude for Analysts and Interns

- Multi taskers, hard working attitude suitable to professional services environment especially for small and growing firms

Required background:

- Top-tier education and academic performance is essential to these roles

- Relevant experience in a KPO, boutique local investment banks, captive CoEs of investment banks and asset managers, consulting firms and equivalent for Associates and Senior Associates

- Associates are also hired as fresh Masters/MBAs from Tier 1/equivalent institutes in India or top Masters in Finance or equivalent programs approad such as LSE, HEC, ESSEC, ESADE, IE and other US/European and international schools

- CFA Level 2 is desired for Associates and onwards

- Highly entrepreneurial, no-nonsense, non-bureaucratic, and inquisitive mindset

- High ownership, bias to action, and the ability to inspire others