Sell Side Research Analyst - CA/CFA - Consumer Retail Sector - Research Firm

- Must have CA or CFA level 2 cleared with 3-5 years of experience in sell side research.

- This role will be tracking consumer retail sector in US geography.

Job Description:

- Building and updating financial models and carrying out valuations

- Preparing earnings reviews and previews

- Providing initiation of coverage support, including building models, valuation, and writing reports

- Collecting and analyzing news

- Handling routine periodical updates

- Handling client requests

- Updating/creating marketing presentations

Key skills - The analyst should have :

- Excellent financial modeling and research report-writing skills

- Experience in writing an initiation of coverage report

- Numerical abilities

- Building complex, error-free models with well-defined revenue/cost driver assumptions

- Carrying out basic earnings sensitivity analysis

- Providing own valuation views after carrying out both relative and DCF-based valuations

- Writing skills

- Writing in a logical and structured manner that requires minimal rework

- Writing bulletins, one-page summaries, and sections of thematic reports/initiation reports in a crisp and punchy manner. Linking macro/industry analysis to the output

Others :

- Collecting news; summarizing and providing analysis that adds value; and preparing charts, tables, and databases

- Good client relationship management skills and communication skills