Crisil - Senior Research Analyst - Equity Research - Buy side

Job Title: Senior Research Analyst/Lead Analyst

Department: Buy side

Role

- The role involves supporting the research team of a US-based Long Only Hedge Fund

- Responsibilities would include working with Fund managers at client end and provide highly integrated research support

- Build and maintain financial models for active and new positions

- Play a consultative role in analyzing and sharing insights on the companies tracked

- Handle bespoke research tasks, including preparing event updates, analyzing IPOs/corporate actions, maintaining sector databases

- Synthesize sell-side research recommendations and consensus views

- Preparing questions for company management and coordination with sell-side brokers

- Support in thematic top down or bottom up research in stock selection as relationship evolves

- Prepare short investment notes based on analysis and provide clients with actionable insights

- Provide quarterly earnings summary for the portfolio companies

Candidate Profile :

- Prior knowledge of buy-side research preferred

- Prior exposure to Real Estate / TMT (either or both) sector(s) preferred

- Candidate should be sector agnostic and ready to take up a new sector willingly

- Excellent communication and presentation skills and client relationship skills. Strong understanding of finance and accounting concepts. Attention to detail, ability to stretch and learn, high analytical rigor

- Excellent financial modelling skills. Should be able to independently create, update and forecast financial models

- Good problem solving skills

- Prior experience in guiding and mentoring junior team members will be advantageous

- Knowledge of databases like Bloomberg and CapIQ a plus

Essential Qualifications

- MBA (Finance), CA or CFA (US). Prior experience in Buy Side Equity Research preferred