Equity Research Analyst

Roles/responsibilities:

- Conduct in-depth secondary research and offer insights on the sector or companies under coverage for a Buy-side engagement.

- The role would require the analyst to conduct in-depth research, formulate opinions and convey the same in a comprehensible manner.

- The candidate would need to develop understanding on various sectors under coverage,

- The work tasks may include conducting financial modeling, comps creation and analysis, developing sector/thematic understanding and research writing, tracking companies and sectors for events, earnings, relevant news on a regular basis and communicate internally and with the client, if required

- The candidate would be required to maintain high level of quality in all deliverables with minimal-to-zero-intervention required from the manager to ensure output in a client-ready format

- Regularly communicate with the project manager/client on project updates, work tasks and pipeline and ensure timely completion of tasks

- Contribute to internal knowledge creation, ad-hoc assignments and training and mentoring junior analysts/new joinees on an as-required basis

- Maintain flexibility to learn new techniques and functionalities, and gain exposure to various types of assignments

Requirements:

- Extensive experience in conducting equity research assignments in a sector-agnostic role, including financial modeling, valuations and report writing

- The candidate should have deep experience in conducting valuations, assigning price targets and identifying and elaborating on investment rationale/risks and valuation summary

- Experienced in interacting directly with clients (call and e-mail, both), regularly exchanging ideas and expressing opinions on stocks and sectors and conveying those thoughts in an easy-to-understand manner

- Proficiency in MS-Excel and financial modeling, strong financial and valuation concepts (DCF, relative, SoTP)

- Excellent communication skills and ability to independently handle clients

- Basic knowledge of databases such as Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters etc

- Strong team player and willingness to learn

EXPERTISE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

- Strong accounting fundamentals and analysis

- Financial modeling

- Handling Buy Side Engagement (Client interaction)