POSITION: RESEARCH ANALYST
Reporting to the General Manager, the incumbent will be responsible for identifying, analyzing, monitoring market trends and building solid business relationships
Key Responsibilities:
- Building an expertise in the assigned industries and companies so as develop content driven research reports
- Modeling company financials, projecting cash flows so as to support the recommendations in the research reports
- Performing relative value analysis within sectors and subsectors and developing specific return/price targets, as well as performing beta and industry correlation analysis.
- Cultivating a variety of independent sources of information including other research providers
- Building solid relationships with company managements with an eye towards gaining insight on their strategic, operational, and financial outlooks.
- Using the acquired expertise and product knowledge to identify stocks the product’s portfolios should hold, then clearly and confidently communicating the investment theses to the clients
- Develop research reports when required as relates to the business areas of the company
- Manage the companys’ social media presence, ensuring the platforms are vibrant and active
- Forging a strong working partnership with the trading team and fellow analysts
- Staying abreast of external and internal developments that may influence stock performance
- Analyzing past operations’ results and performing variance analyses.
- Identifying and analyzing trends and forecasts and recommending improvements to the business processes.
- Researching market trends, conducting surveys, analyzing data from competitors, and analyzing the business’s operations, expenditures, and customer retention to identify patterns of potential issues or improvements.
- Using statistical, economic, and data modeling techniques and tools when doing research reports and analyzing data
- Organizing and analyzing data, creating charts and graphs, and presenting your findings to the team.
- Organizing and storing data for future research projects.
Minimum Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge & Key Competencies:
- A University Degree in Business Finance, Economics or other related field
- CFA level I and above will be an added advantage
- 2 years of work experience with at least 1 year in equity research.
- A passion for bottom-up fundamental analysis of stocks as well as identifying and analyzing industry trends that includes the willingness to go against the crowd
- The intellectual and investment flexibility to identify appropriate investment ideas for long only and long/short products with different time horizons and styles.
- A level of emotional and intellectual flexibility and maturity that is evidenced by the ability to set aside personal investment biases and any emotional attachment to a security, in favor of making wise investment recommendations and decisions
- A great team member who understands “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”
- A powerful work ethic, being a self-starter, capable of accepting responsibility and working independently
- Superior verbal and written communication skills – the ability to ask questions, and articulate viewpoints both verbally and in print
How to Apply
If you believe you meet the above requirements, send your applications to the following address: [email protected] on or before 20th January 2025. Please put the position applied for as the subject of the email
