Overview
A leading global alternative investment firm is seeking a Sector Analyst, Proprietary Research to join its London office.
On the proprietary research team—Market Intelligence—you’ll partner with investment professionals and Compliance team to uncover insights about companies, industries, and the broader economy through deep fundamental research and applying data science and engineering techniques to alternative data sets. You’ll work alongside a talented team with diverse skills, backgrounds, and perspectives. Researchers, product managers, and data scientists and engineers work together to build compliant research products that answer the questions posed by investment professionals.
The firm is looking for bright, motivated, and collaborative people to join and grow with the team — more than 90% of the leaders were promoted from within.
Key Responsibilities
As a Sector Analyst for European Equities, you will work with alternative data to gather industry context and business fundamentals. You will then partner with a team of data scientists and engineers to develop analyses that you’ll deliver as synthesized insights to investment professionals to help aid in their research processes. The work is ever evolving, affording opportunities to tackle new challenges alongside research teammates from diverse backgrounds. Specifically, you will:
- Analyze and interpret alternative data from multiple sources and develop subject-matter expertise on the key themes and KPIs that drive the industry and companies within your assigned coverage
- Produce research for internal consumption by investment professionals across a variety of mediums, including written research reports, verbal communication, and visualization tools
- Interact directly with investment professionals to learn the discretionary investment process and help them to drive more informed investment decisions
- Collaborate with the proprietary research teams including Data Sourcing, Data Science, and Data Engineering, as well as Compliance, to source, evaluate, and draw value from new and existing data assets to produce actionable research for investment professionals
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- An undergraduate or advanced degree with demonstrated academic success
- One to five years of prior equity/investment/scientific/industry research or consulting experience, including any relevant internship experience
- Proficiency with technical coding/programming and ability to participate in a live technical screen (SQL, Python)
- Experience leveraging data analysis as part of the fundamental research process for business, public policy, finance, engineering, applied sciences, or other quantitative fields
- Comfort with analyzing novel data and explaining concepts to non-technical partners
- A passion for finance, research, and using data to solve problems
- Great organizational skills to handle a demanding workload, creativity, and a strong work ethic
- Ability to operate productively in a team environment
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
Person Specification
- Transforming large unstructured, data sets into valuable investment research inputs
- Learning and working with industry-leading cloud-computing technologies
- Speaking with experts both inside and outside the Firm to understand data needs and offerings
- Fast-paced work environments that at times require switching gears to address the needs of the business
- Working as part of a cross-functional team made up of investment, research, and compliance professionals
- Excellent attention to detail, organization, and project management skills
- Superb business intuition and a solution orientated, methodological approach to problem solving
- Ability to collaborate and build relationships across multiple business units within the Firm
- People who “elevate the room” through their work ethic, curiosity, and solution-orientated attitude
- Adherence to the highest ethical standards working closely with the Firm’s Compliance team
Company Ethics
- Integrity – You demonstrate 100% commitment to the highest ethical standards
- Ownership – You take charge of your work, uphold your commitments, and always do your best
- Commerciality – You focus on what matters, ask necessary questions, and are diligent about not wasting time
- Humility – You welcome and are receptive to feedback and learn from past mistakes
- Adaptability – You can triage business needs and context switch quickly and efficiently
- Admirability – You elevate the room through your work ethic, domain knowledge, and work product
Company Benefits
- Private Medical and Dental Insurances
- Generous parental and family leave policies
- Volunteer opportunities
- Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of colour and the LGBQT+ community
- Mental and physical wellness programmes
- Tuition assistance
- Non-contributory pension and more
