Senior Research Analyst (m/f/d)

at  Alvarez and Marsal

Description
Companies, investors and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) for leadership, action and results. Privately held since its founding in 1983, A&M is a global leading professional services firm that provides advisory, business performance improvement and turnaround management services.
With over 10000 people across 6 continents and based in 86 locations, we deliver excellent results for corporates, boards, private equity firms, law firms and government agencies facing complex challenges. Our senior leaders and their teams leverage A&M’s restructuring heritage to help companies act decisively, catapult growth and accelerate results.
Our non-hierarchical, hands-on-approach, small expert teams and an international focus are characterizing for A&M.
Our Insight Centre is the rapidly growing research and benchmarking arm of A&M and it’s mission is to provide our professionals with highly relevant, industry specific, actionable, fact-based insights derived through our proprietary benchmark and research studies on a global basis. The group was founded to adhere to one of A&M’s founding principles, “No shooting from the hip”. It supports client work and business development projects with an ever-growing toolbox of products, including custom benchmarking and research studies and targeted subscriptions and resources. The team considers research both a science and an art, and as such is committed to developing high-quality, unique, and insightful deliverables to support stakeholders.
As part of our continued growth, we are looking for a Senior Research Analyst (m/f/d) based in Munich or Frankfurt working directly with project teams to deliver benchmarking, analytics and research services which support thought leadership, business development and client work.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in a related field (Relevant Information degree preferred)
• Related work experience in a similar role for at least 3-5 years
• Excellent research experience in a similar role with a professional services, consulting firm or other financial organization
• Good project management skills, able to manage a research request pipeline, and multi-task
• Excellent analytical skills and research experience using research databases such as Factiva, Capital IQ, APQC, Bloomberg amongst others
• Strong knowledge and understanding of fundamental financial research, financial analysis, and financial markets/trends
• A solid grounding in secondary research and developing commercial insights
• Outstanding customer relationship management skills, able to manage expectations, delivery timescales, and agree outputs
• Secure analytical skills, comfortable working with quantitative data and numerical analysi
• Ability to communicate complex ideas in a simple manner
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; fluency in English and German
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office (Excel)
  If you want to be part of A&M’s success story and would like to grow in a dynamic environment, we are looking forward to your application

You will fulfill a wide range of varied research requests by interacting directly with A&M stakeholders from all divisions and across all levels - from Analysts to Managing Directors. You will engage in the full life-cycle of the request from the scoping phase to delivering the final output. These requests will include, but are not limited to the following examples:

• Identifying and obtaining reports from industry, financial, IT and news subscriptions and resources
• Conducting financial analysis on a range of companies to understand how they compare to their peers, how their debt is structured, what is their financial health
• Providing industry research on a variety of sectors, using both subscription and free research tools
• Analyzing a range of country and company data, commodity pricing, and other variables to provide insight for “Points of View” documents that are used to deliver content for A&M clients about their current and future market position
• Providing data on various operational benchmarks such as company strategy, locations, sizing and company insights
• Create and support “watchlists” or newsletters to help various teams with their business development activities
• Help manage the research request pipeline through Salesforce
• Collaborate with the team to prioritize, coordinate and project manage research requests that are sent to our third-party research partners
• Promote the Insight Center and provide education on how to leverage and engage with the Insight Center
• Work collaboratively with counterparts in the global Insight Center team to drive a “one-firm” approach to research
• Educate end-users on research best practices
• Evaluate new research tools and service offerings