Acuity Knowledge Partners - Delivery Manager - Thematic Research - Investment Banking

Acuity Knowledge Partners - Delivery Manager - Thematic Research - Investment Banking

About Acuity Knowledge Partners :

- Acuity Knowledge Partners, formerly part of Moody's Corporation, is a leading provider of bespoke research, analytics, staffing and technology solutions to the financial services sector.

- Headquartered in London, Acuity Knowledge Partners has nearly two decades of transformation experience in servicing over 300 clients with a specialist workforce of over 2,500 analysts and delivery experts across its global delivery network.

- We provide our clients with unique assistance not only to innovate, implement transformation programmes and increase operational efficiency, but also to manage costs and improve their top lines.

Our expertise includes the following :

- Investment Banking - origination and trading support

- Investment Research support - covering all asset classes in terms of ideation, data science, and research support across the buy side and sell side

- Commercial Lending support - across origination, credit assessment, underwriting, and covenant and portfolio risk for all lending types

- Private Equity - origination, valuation and portfolio monitoring support

- Asset Management services support - across marketing, investment research, portfolio management/optimisation, risk and compliance

- Corporate and Consulting services - market and strategic research; survey work; treasury and counterparty risk support; and CEO office support, including M&A, FP&A and investor relations support

Compliance support :

- AML analytics, KYC, counterparty credit risk modelling and servicing across banks, asset managers and corporates

- Data Science - web scraping, data structuring, analytics and visualisation. These services are supported by our proprietary suite of Business Excellence and Automation Tools (BEAT) that offer domain-specific contextual technology.

- These services are supported by our proprietary suite of Business Excellence and Automation Tools (BEAT) that offer domain-specific contextual technology.

- Acuity Knowledge Partners is assisted by Equistone Partners Europe, a leading private equity organisation that backs specialist growth businesses and management teams.

For further details, please visit our website: www.acuitykp.com

Opportunity :

- Acuity Knowledge Partners is currently looking for a dedicated and motivated individual with strong research and analytics skills to develop industry thematic studies for investment banking clients. The role will be based in Gurgaon and be an integral part of our investment banking offering.

Responsibilities :

Expertise and experience in structuring and developing high quality outputs in the following areas :

1. Industry / sector studies

2. Thematic research and presentations

3. Market entry studies

4. Strategic Research

5. Information memorandums

- Cross-sector project work and exposure i.e. Telecom, Power, Technology, Infrastructure, Industrials etc.

- Analysing industry landscape, competition, key trends/ drivers, regulations etc. with thorough research

- Exhaustive secondary research (through databases, general secondary sources, journals, annual reports, company websites, government and ministry websites).

- Industry screening and benchmarking companies on various financial and operating parameters to analyze the competitive positioning

- Delivering high-end analysis and visually impactful reports to various investment banks

- Ability to carry out expert interviews to supplement secondary research

- Market and competitive intelligence

- Leading project teams on multiple project teams, performing quality checks and project leadership

Required Background :

- MBA (Finance) / Chartered Accountant with 6-10 years of relevant experience in Investment banking space

- Excellent communication skills, ability to engage stakeholders in meaning discussion on the outlook and current themes

- Exposure of managing client engagements and project life cycles

- Ability to work effectively under tight deadlines

- Strong fundamentals on core sectors, conversant with latest industry themes

- Understanding of Databases and sector specific data sources