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HR at Recruise India Consulting

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Sector Specialist - Equity Research (3-5 yrs)

Bangalore Job Code: 88596

Sector Specialist - Equity research

Company - Our client is a leading US based organisation offering financial services to the global clients.

Position - Sector specialist

Location - Bangalore

Experience - 3-5 years

Internal Job Code – 0076

Education and Specifications: An MBA or a CA degree is required, CFA is a plus.

Job Description: (Should Have Good Working Exposure across the sectors)

Sector Specialist: Roles & Responsibilities:

- Sector Specialists start supporting 2-3 research analysts at a time, and grow to support 3 – 5 analysts in the long run. Over time, they may focus their research efforts on a small number of sectors.

- Some examples of equity research projects undertaken by Sector Specialists are:

- Creating long term demand supply models within sector and deriving forecasts on capacity, market share, capital investments, pricing etc.

- Business cycle analysis to identify turning points in industry.

- Creating industry databases, and analyzing them for trends

- Construction of indices for select market segments. Calculating relative performance of such indices or stocks vs. market. Identification of key factors which may drive relative performance, and testing them with data.

- Relative valuation for stocks and indices in a sector. Developing valuation dashboards for a sector

- Developing and maintaining sector overview sheets

- Sector Specialists also spend a considerable amount of time working on ad-hoc projects with their research analysts, developing insights into their sectors through topical research issues.

- Occasional travel to Boston / London is expected.

Sector Specialist: Required / Preferred Skills:

- The role requires frequent use of concepts in US GAAP accounting, economics, statistics, financial markets, financial statement analysis, ratio analysis and industry analysis. An MBA or a CA degree is required, CFA is a plus.

- At least 3 years experience in investment research, including at least 1 year in equity research. Knowledge of some specific international sectors is desirable but not necessary.

- Collecting, analyzing and presenting data relevant to the research problem at hand is a core skill. Candidates should have excellent skills in MS Excel and MS Word. Expertise is applications such as Bloomberg, Reuters, Factset etc. is desirable.

- Candidates need to manage multiple projects simultaneously, be a team player, and be able to work under pressure and time constraints.

- The Sector Specialist may interact extensively with people of various nationalities, and strong communication and interpersonal skills are a must. International experience is a plus.

- The role is largely self-driven and self-managed, with minimal supervision on a day to day basis. Candidates are required to have a high degree of professionalism, integrity, commitment and energy.

- The successful candidate should be an independent thinker with the ability to effectively articulate his/her research analysis and have a keen interest in worldwide equity markets and research.

Benefits from role to candidates

- Work in a small team dedicated to producing high quality sector research.

- Get access to unmatched variety of equity applications (Bloomberg, Factset, Haver etc.) and data sources to support your research ideas.

- Work for a ‘buy-side’ firm, not a ‘sell-side’ research firm; focus your research on long term stock drivers, not short term noise factors. Develop in-depth expertise on international markets.

- Develop your equity research expertise by working across multiple sectors in various kinds of projects.

- Opportunities to excel and grow in the largest buy-side research team anywhere in the world.

- Opportunities to train and grow into other roles within Business Analytics and Research, including Credit Research and Quantitative Modeling.

Please send your updated profiles to kalai@recruiseindia.com

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Maternity and Paternity Benefits

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