Senior Analyst - Secondary Research - Big4

Roles and Responsibilities :

- Connect with research users (advisors from member firms across the world) to understand project objectives, scope, and deliverables

- Effectively manage the request intake process including participating in project scoping calls to clarify understanding and prepare a detailed project scope document

- Conceive, design and execute secondary research on:

Company : Business model, segments, revenue model, strategy, issues / challenges, M&A history, competitive positioning, organization structure, key management, recent developments, SWOT, etc.

Market: Industry value chain, size and growth outlook, trends and drivers, growth inhibitors and challenges, competitive landscape, Porter's / PESTLE analysis, etc.

Financials: Broad analysis of income statement, balance sheet, cash flows, ratios, segment performance, etc o Competitors: comparative performance of companies on financial and operational KPIs, relative strengths and weaknesses, etc.

- Assess and analyze the above to draw be-spoke insights for the internal and external clients

- Contribute to the delivery and presentation of client deliverables (MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Word) - prepare client ready presentations that are well structured, logical and clear to understand Articulate findings through visually appealing / appropriate frameworks and in a clear, concise, and grammatically correct business English (both written and verbal)

- Work reasonably independently, with appropriate supervision and guidance from Manager/Assistant Manager/Team Lead

- Work collaboratively with onshore teams in the development of and delivery of presentations and key findings

Essential skills required :

- Proficiency in MS-Office - Intermediate/Advanced MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint and MS-Word

- Goal driven - Should be focused on helping clients meet their requirements - by effectively contributing to developing solutions when client requirement is unclear /changes, and by providing relevant insights and key questions to fit the client objective

- Personal drive and positive work ethic to deliver results within tight deadlines

- Flexibility to adapt to a variety of engagement types, working hours and work environments and locations

- Strong numerical, analytical and strategic thinking skills, and sound business / commercial acumen

- Ability to strategically analyze companies / industries / countries

- Strong understanding of finance fundamentals - income statement, balance sheet, cash flows, financial ratios

- Adept at strategic frameworks such as SWOT, Porter's Five Forces, PESTLE, etc.

- Proficient in mining data from various databases (such as Investext, Factiva, Capital IQ, MergerMarket, SDC Platinum, Lexis Nexis, etc.), identifying surrogates, and triangulating data points A pragmatic approach to analysis and problem solving; ability to drive through to an outcome in circumstances of complexity and ambiguity

- Ability to assess technical information to distill key strategic insights and convey these succinctly, clearly and confidently, verbally and in written form

- Produce professional, neat and client-ready power point presentations and excel worksheets