Assistant Manager - Research - BFSI - Big4

We have an exciting opportunity with one of the leading Big Four's for both Gurgaon & Bangalore locations and are looking for candidates having strong experience into:

Project and Team Management Exposure

- Prior experience in project scoping, effort estimate, project work planning, team handling (of 7-8 team members), staffing, providing feedback, etc.

- End-to-end project delivery - client interaction, information collection, deliverable preparation, quality check and delivery

Technical Skills

- Ability to form and express independent opinion on sectorial developments

- Engage the stakeholders with intelligent conversation and research that is rich in pertinent content that establishes the sector specialization.

- 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 across databases (such as Investext, Factiva, Capital IQ, MergerMarket, Lexis Nexis, etc.), in identifying surrogates, and triangulating data

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

- Ability to synthesize and critically analyze large quantities of qualitative and quantitative data quickly and draw meaningful insights

- Experience in preparing contextualized reports, briefs, thought leaderships, market sizing, competitive assessments and analysis

Behavioral skills

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

Experience and Qualifications

- The candidate must have 6-10 years of research experience on the Financial Service industry (Banking/Insurance/Capital Markets/Investment Management) with a professional services firm / third-party KPO / specialized research houses, or captive/in-house research/strategy/market intelligence divisions of banks/insurers/investment management companies/investment banks; with post-graduate qualification.

- Extensive experience of conducting and leading complex research assignments

- Experience of handling multiple stakeholders and managing teams