Equity Research Analyst - KPO

Roles and responsibilities

Candidate will be working as an equity research analyst (for sell-side or buy-side equity clients) and is expected to manage his/her work independently with end-to-end ownership of client projects. Work types will include-

- Preparing/updating financial models for coverage companies and conducting valuation (using DCF, Relative Valuation, SoTP, etc.)

- Contributing to various reports for coverage sector-earnings notes, investment teasers, initiating coverage notes, sector notes, thematic notes

- Issuing timely updates on company events/sector events/trend-changing events and gauging the impact on valuation/recommendation of stocks

- Maintaining sector-specific databases and periodicals

- Preparing custom financial dashboards and screeners based on appropriate financial and operating metrics

- Supporting the client on ad-hoc research tasks relating to companies, sectors or themes

- Manage client communication independently including one-to-one client communication, contributing to morning meetings and dealing with the sales team of clients

- Should be able to contribute to certain product/process development exercises for the client

- Contribute/work on important pilot projects

- Create IPs/white papers/blogs/articles/teasers which can be used for marketing purposes

Ideal Candidate :

- 4-6 years of experience in financial and/or investment research in a KPO or advisory firm

- Solid experience in financial modelling, forecasting, valuations, writing investment research

- Strong grasp of financial concepts and their applications across equity research

- Suitable understanding of capital markets and macroeconomic trends

- Experience in end-to-end execution of projects and communication with clients

- Knowledge of various databases such as Bloomberg, Thomson Eikon, DataStream, Capital IQ

- Excellent secondary research skills