Financials Analyst, Frontier Africa at Stanbic Bank

Responsibilities to implement and execute

• Assist in organising conferences and corporate access calendars.
• Initiate coverage of relevant and commercial number of stocks in the allocated sectors.
• Write insightful and impactful research that results in a product suite that encompasses sector and company notes, thematic and periodical publications, commentary on news flow and the impact on share valuations.
• Market the investment ideas to domestic and offshore based global investors. Marketing consists of roadshows, conference calls, tele-marketing, etc.
• Provide corporate access to link executives of corporations and other decision- and opinion-makers to investment managers. Corporate access can consist of conference calls, exclusive small-scale management meetings, conference organisation, investor tour organisation, reverse roadshows (offshore investors visiting region) and non-deal roadshows (NDRs e.g. whereby the bank organises an investor roadshow for management). Such activity benefits the analyst franchise and showcases the “execution abilities” of the bank.

Complete and respond to bespoke and ad-hoc client requests.

• Inform and work with Sales & Trading, within the compliance framework, to optimise the marketing and execution of investment ideas.
• Pass interesting and commercial ideas within compliance framework to counterparts in CIB for instance in ECM, DCM, M&A and broader corporate finance functions. These ideas can include but are not confined to capital raising, debt restructuring, buy-backs, mergers, consolidation and other deal ideas, balance sheet restructuring, forex solutions, structured solutions, etc.

Key dimensions of the job

• Responsible for about 8-10 stocks under coverage in individual analyst capacity
• Build effective but objective relationships with company management teams.
• Market views externally and internally, servicing approximately 10 Kenyan and around 40 key international accounts.
• Corporate Access is a key element of the job, which requires a proactive approach in providing opportunities for institutional clients to access corporates, regulators and other key stakeholders via conferences hosted by Standard Bank, conference audio/video calls, reverse roadshows and non-deal roadshows.
• On an ad-hoc basis, support ECM via investor educational research & input into idea generation corporate-finance requirements
• Represent house views on sector trends and developments in the media.

Knowledge, experience and personal competencies
Knowledge

• Bachelor’s degree is the minimum qualification but additional qualifications for this role can be varied but tends to include any of the following; MBA, Masters in Finance or Economics. Chartered Accountancy, Honours degrees, and CFA charter holders. MBAs and CFA charter holders preferred.
• Leverage off Sell side, asset management or industry experience expertise gained

Experience

• At least five years of Equity Analyst experience, or relevant experience in Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, Accountancy, or any other relevant field.
• Regional or global experience in broking would be a benefit