Role Summary
We are presently recruiting for a Senior Associate (Japan focused) in the Active Equities Asia department in our Hong Kong office. Reporting to the Japan domain lead of Active Equities Asia, the incumbent will be a key contributor to scaling our portfolio, lead investment research, develop and communicate investment recommendations in our long/short strategy.
Role Specific Accountabilities:
Analyze and communicate Investment Opportunities
- Lead the research and evaluate investment opportunities in Japan
- Lead due diligence on opportunities – including financial, company and sector diligence, to determine investment merits and risks.
- Oversee the building of dynamic financial and valuation models to analyze expected returns of investment opportunities, test assumptions and perform sensitivity analysis.
- Perform valuation analysis of companies’ securities,
- Perform the relative ranking of investment opportunities to optimize exposures within the portfolio.
- Present investment recommendations to thought partners and investment committees.
Asset Management
- Analyze and communicate company earnings and events that move share prices.
- Monitor ongoing financial performance of portfolio assets. Oversee the update of financial models and other analysis tools to help with communicating rationale behind change in investment view.
- Performing valuation reviews for portfolio assets.
- Build and leverage relationships with industry participants and management teams.
Be a Contributing Team Player
- Participate in and contribute to weekly departmental meetings and investment recommendation meetings.
- Support other members on the team in research and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with other departments to produce impactful research work.
