Research Analyst at ABC Bank (African Banking Corporation Limited)

POSITION: RESEARCH ANALYST

Reporting to the General Manager, the incumbent will be responsible for identifying, analyzing, monitoring market trends and building solid business relationships

Key Responsibilities:

• Building an expertise in the assigned industries and companies so as develop content driven research reports
• Modeling company financials, projecting cash flows so as to support the recommendations in the research reports
• Performing relative value analysis within sectors and subsectors and developing specific return/price targets, as well as performing beta and industry correlation analysis.
• Cultivating a variety of independent sources of information including other research providers
• Building solid relationships with company managements with an eye towards gaining insight on their strategic, operational, and financial outlooks.
• Using the acquired expertise and product knowledge to identify stocks the product's portfolios should hold, then clearly and confidently communicating the investment theses to the clients
• Develop research reports when required as relates to the business areas of the company
• Manage the companys’ social media presence, ensuring the platforms are vibrant and active
• Forging a strong working partnership with the trading team and fellow analysts
• Staying abreast of external and internal developments that may influence stock performance
• Analyzing past operations' results and performing variance analyses.
• Identifying and analyzing trends and forecasts and recommending improvements to the business processes.
• Researching market trends, conducting surveys, analyzing data from competitors, and analyzing the business's operations, expenditures, and customer retention to identify patterns of potential issues or improvements.
• Using statistical, economic, and data modeling techniques and tools when doing research reports and analyzing data
• Organizing and analyzing data, creating charts and graphs, and presenting your findings to the team.
• Organizing and storing data for future research projects.

Minimum Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge & Key Competencies:

• A University Degree in Business Finance, Economics or other related field
• CFA level I and above will be an added advantage
• 2 years of work experience with at least 1 year in equity research.
• A passion for bottom-up fundamental analysis of stocks as well as identifying and analyzing industry trends that includes the willingness to go against the crowd
• The intellectual and investment flexibility to identify appropriate investment ideas for long only and long/short products with different time horizons and styles.
• A level of emotional and intellectual flexibility and maturity that is evidenced by the ability to set aside personal investment biases and any emotional attachment to a security, in favor of making wise investment recommendations and decisions
• A great team member who understands “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”
• A powerful work ethic, being a self-starter, capable of accepting responsibility and working independently
• Superior verbal and written communication skills – the ability to ask questions, and articulate viewpoints both verbally and in print