The Smart Cube - Senior Associate - Financial Services

Job Description Sr. Associate Financial Services

About us :

In todays Intelligence Age, the worlds best businesses have no choice but to continuously strive to become smarter.

Our clients hold the key to this and are today harnessing the power of The Smart Cubes solutions to unlock new innovation and profit streams.

The strength of our solutions is born of a powerful blend of people, tools and technology.

A rare breed

Back in 2003, the world was a very different place the consumer internet was less than 10 years old and the smartphone was still a novelty.

The Smart Cube was created as a new kind of business, one that would make sense of the reams of data being generated.

Since then its been quite a journey.

A journey that has seen us change the way organisations think about intelligence. A journey that has put our industry on the map. A journey that is only getting started.

Our future focus

We do not exist to help our clients simply fire fight today. We help them to look ahead and stay ahead. Our vision is to be the catalyst for organisational intelligence for the worlds leading firms.

Job Description Sr. Associate Financial Services

Roles and responsibilities :

- Candidate will be supporting buy- side/sell- side analysts focused on equity research projects such as building/maintaining financial models, writing investment thesis and conducting valuation (based on DCF, Relative Valuation, SoTP, etc.)

- Preparing comprehensive financial models with forecasting and valuation based on understanding of company KPIs and industry drivers

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- Performing data- intensive tasks such as maintaining sector- specific databases, and preparing custom dashboards and database- driven screeners

- Contributing to various kinds of equity reports including earnings notes, initiating coverage notes, sector notes, thematic notes

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

- Supporting the client in various product and process development projects

- Relating latest developments in the capital market and sector to valuation of the coverage stocks

- Communicating with the client team independently for daily tasks and ad- hoc requests

- Contributing to or working on challenging pilot projects

Ideal Candidate :

- Candidate should have relevant experience of at least 2- 5 years in financial and/or investment research in a KPO or advisory Firm

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- The person should have completed MBA (Finance) or CFA or CA

- Strong grasp of financial concepts and accounting and their application in financial analysis and valuation

- Should possess experience in financial modelling, forecasting, valuation and writing investment research

- Must possess expertise in using financial research databases (Bloomberg, Capital IQ, Thomson ONE)

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- Expert understanding of MS- Office tools particularly advanced Excel

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- Strong business acumen and problem solving skills

- Excellent communication (both written and oral) and presentation skills

- Aware of latest macroeconomic trends and their impact on global capital markets

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- Able to quickly develop understanding on new sectors and identify key drivers or risk factors

- Desire to work in a fast paced, challenging environment

- Mature individual with a professional work ethic, and high degree of ownership and accountability