Experienced Associate - Equity Research IT Services

Job Description:

Position Summary

Guggenheim Securities (GS) is seeking a highly motivated Equity Research Associate to support a wellestablished Senior Research Analyst covering the IT Services industry.

The person will be responsible for conducting fundamental research on both public and private companies and maintaining complex financial models. Over time the person will develop the ability to effectively articulate the business strategies of covered companies and stock recommendations to institutional investors and Guggenheims institutional sales force. The ideal candidate should have excellent writing financial modeling and communication skills as well as demonstrate high aptitude for gathering and synthesizing relevant primary and secondary market data. Candidate must be detailoriented collaborative and willing to travel periodically to industry events. This is a demanding but rewarding role with significant career upside.

Essential Job Functions

• Conduct fundamental bottomup research including but not limited to: analyzing disclosures and financial reports of public companies and conducting due diligence on companies products sales and marketing models and competitive landscape
• Aggregate and synthesize data on IT Services industry trends
• Actively monitor market news macro trends and stock performance of covered companies
• Regularly draft reports recapping companies earnings results relevant investment themes events and breaking news
• Build and maintain detailed financial models including discounted cash flow SOTP and comparable company analysis models
• Interact with the Firms institutional sales force and investor clients and respond to inquiries regarding research findings and directives
• Regularly update analyst marketing decks
• Periodically assist with survey design and collection websing due diligence calls and channel checks
• Occasionally travel to industry events represent the Firm in a professional manner and recap event highlights in timely fashion
• Assist with investor outreach research distribution lists occasional firmhosted events and contribute to collectively managed team calendar
• Over time develop the ability to seamlessly communicate investment theses and stock recommendations and contribute original research ideas

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluency in modeling financial statements
• Comfortable with large data sets and reporting
• Understanding of the capital markets and stock markets and a passion for investing
• Excellent written and oral communication skills to successfully convey investment messages ideas or nuances to institutional investors team members salespeople and/or traders
• Outstanding analytical skills; ability to conduct deep primary research analysis and draw conclusions from information
• Strong interpersonal relationship skills and style conducive to building relationships
• Ability to thrive in a fastpaced deadlinedriven environment; selfstarter with a proven commitment to producing high quality work
• Teamoriented unquestionable honesty and integrity intellectual curiosity and dedication to providing clients with the best products
• Ability to deliver under pressure and meet deadlines effectively

Basic Qualifications

• 35 years of relevant experience
• B.A. or B.S. Degree required
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel PowerPoint and Word
• Must have or obtain SIE 63 86 and 87 licenses within 6 months of hire

Work Location

• Currently this role is expected to be in the New York office at least 4 days per week.

Salary

• Annual base salary between $140000 and $165000.
• The base salary range represents the low and high end of the anticipated base salary range for this position. Actual base salaries may vary depending on factors such as location and experience. The range listed reflects base salary only and the total compensation package may include other components such as incentive compensation.

About Us:

Guggenheim Securities is the investment banking and capital markets business of Guggenheim Partners a global investment and advisory firm. Guggenheim Securities offers services that fall into four broad categories: Advisory Financing Sales and Trading and Research. Guggenheim Securities is headquartered in New York with additional offices in Chicago Boston Atlanta San Francisco and Houston.

Guggenheim is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.

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