Investment Research and Advisory

Practice Lead

Responsibilities:

• Manage and deliver high quality research services to global clients. This includes understanding project specifications, overseeing deliverable preparation and extensive client engagement
• Develop and maintain relationship with global clients and leverage the relationship to win more business. Technical expertise would be preferred in the following areas: Opportunity Identification, Target and Buyer Identification, Commercial Due Diligence, Financial & Operations Modelling, Company Valuation, Portfolio Value Creation, Thematic Research, Equity Research and Fixed Income, Credit & Currency Research
• Contribute to firm-level responsibilities such as knowledge management, training, recruitment and selection, internal process development, expanding business capabilities and leading other organisation improvement initiatives
• Manage professional development, coaching and evaluation of the Investment Research team members
• Demonstrate thought leadership and represent the firm in appropriate industry forums

Candidate profile:

• MBA from leading Indian B-Schools (preferably IIMs or other tier 1 institutes)
• 10-14 years of experience in M&A Research & Advisory with at least 4 years in managing teams, leading projects and handling Equity Research/ Private Equity/ Thematic Research / Corporate Finance clients
• Strong quantitative aptitude and ability to draw inferences from a set of numbers/ financials
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deliverables simultaneously
• Strong business acumen – should be able to correlate market drivers, challenges with impact on client or target companies, should be able to evaluate business risks, etc.
• Strong attention to detail; ability to identify improvement opportunities and ensure successful implementation of suggestions
• Strong people management skills
• Impeccable verbal and written communication skills
• Proficient in MS-Office: Excel, Word and PowerPoint