Job Description

Job Title: Senior Research Associate

Location: Noida

Who We Are
Visible Alpha is a financial technology company that works in close collaboration with our hedge fund and institutional investors to solve inefficiencies and cultivate positive and collaborative relationships across the market through our award-winning technology solutions and services.
We are a growth company, established but operating under an employee-centric model where we value the ideas, expertise and inputs of every individual. Our continuous mode of experimentation ensures we are providing the best experiences for our employees, clients and partners.
Visible Alpha offers a hybrid work schedule (2 days/week) across all offices.

What We Do

Visible Alpha enhances the investment research process by extracting meaningful analyst models, and research reports through valuable partnerships with the world's premier investment research organizations. Our deep consensus data provides financial recommendations on companies and industries at a level of granularity and timeliness and that has never before been possible.

About you:

• Should enjoy breaking down and interpreting financial models of a company to understand the basic building blocks of a company's business model.
• 5+ years of experience in the application of concepts like financial statements, GAAP/Recurring income, ratio analysis.
• Demonstrated experience in creating consensus models would be a plus.
• An eye for details and the ability to identify errors in modeling based on structured rules and statistics based tools.
• Deep expertise in specific sectors would be a plus as would be ability to understand inter-play\dependencies between sectors and ability to identify key macroeconomic factors and their impact on company fortunes.
• Aptitude for problem-solving and troubleshooting.
• Excellent academic credentials in B.com/M.com/MBA/CFA.

Job Responsibilities:

• Prepare insightful financial content from sell-side research using a mix of extraction technologies and Industry/Sector expertise.
• Consistently and diligently teaching structure and components of a model to an AI system.
• Develop and demonstrate a strong understanding of diverse business models for public-listed companies.
• Collaborate actively within the team to improve the efficiency of the overall data collection process.
• Surface and effectively communicate key modeling approaches among sell-side research content and highlight errors in models to improve the basic inputs of decision making for the investing community.
• Track events for a set of companies starting with corporate earnings and M&A transactions with an eye on changes in models.
• Collaborate actively within the team to improve the efficiency of the overall process.
• Meet project timelines and quality standards.
• Identify best practices and creating SOP's for modeling a company / Industry.
• Review and team mentoring responsibilities with final sign-off for client specific models.
• Interactions with internal data and Engineering teams.

Additional Note:
This is not an Equity Research or Financial Modelling profile. The job does offer an opportunity to know the sustainability of business models of global companies from the best minds in the business through their models and research reports. This is an ENTRY LEVEL position and one can grow by being a champion of the System-based tools and Processes / developing Industry expertise / developing proficiency in statistical and logical elimination of inconsistencies in the data.