Global Equities Analyst
Global Equities Analyst (Consumer Discretionary and/or Industrials)
at Ariel Investments (View all jobs)
New York City
Ariel Investments is a premier, boutique, asset management firm. Our primary goal is to drive exceptional investment returns by bringing diverse perspectives together. The only way to beat a benchmark is to not look like one. As value investors, our thinking is deliberate and unconventional. We offer an independent, patient investing approach and aim to deliver excellence in any environment. We uphold our fiduciary responsibility to every shareholder, no matter how big or small.
At Ariel, we strongly believe that teamwork yields results—which is why we have Co-CEOs. John Rogers and Mellody Hobson share a desire to cultivate leaders who are curious, focused and disciplined. We are nimble and efficient. Our drive is fanatical and intentional. Everyone plays their position and each contribution is critical to our firm’s success. We seek subject matter experts who are unapologetically themselves. We encourage our employees to reach their full potential and we give them the runway to do so.
After nearly four decades of active investing, we remain committed to our clients, our teammates and our community. We strive to be best-in-class investors and pioneer a path for those who entrust us with their financial future.
The international and global team located in New York City is made up of a group of non-consensus intrinsic value oriented investment professionals. We offer an independent, patient investing approach and aim to deliver excellence in any environment.
We are looking for one or more equity investment research professional(s) with knowledge and experience covering listed companies in the international and global equity markets. Areas of coverage will include one or more of the following sectors: consumer discretionary and/or industrials.
This position can be a career defining opportunity for an individual looking to conduct deep and differentiated fundamental research alongside a small, high-performing team of experienced and talented investment professionals using a well-established and institutionally oriented intrinsic value investment process with a long-term investment horizon. The team oversees several billion dollars of assets for mostly institutional clients.
The position is based in our midtown Manhattan offices near Grand Central Station in New York City.
Some travel is required (once all Covid-19 related travel bans and restrictions are lifted).
Please include your resume and samples of your research (write-ups and models) when applying for this role.
Must be fully vaccinated by date of hire. Proof of vaccination is required.
Experience and Qualifications:
Experience
- Between 5 and 10 of years of work experience as a business, research, financial or equity analyst or consultant on the consumer discretionary and/or industrials sectors. Experience should primarily include work as a fundamentally-oriented buy or sell side equity analyst. However, we are willing to consider direct industry work experience in a strategic and/or analytic role within the relevant sectors or indirect subject matter expertise as a strategy consultant, into our overall assessment.
- Effective oral and written communication skills to comprehensively yet succinctly articulate an investment articulate an investment thesis as well as detailed financial modeling skills are a minimum requirement.
- Detail orientation and the ability to consume, digest and synthesize a large amount of information from a variety of sources and convert them into proprietary, actionable insights in a timely fashion, is a pre-requisite to succeed in this position.
- What will distinguish successful candidates is the ability to demonstrate industry, sector or domain expertise, insight and perspective. We seek business analysts with a well-rounded grasp of company and industry trends as well as emerging challenges and opportunities, within the sector(s) covered, both from a big picture and bottoms-up perspective.
- We highly value the ability to identify factors such as competitive advantage, strategic inflection points or disruptive developments as well as the ability to synthesize and articulate these fundamental characteristics both qualitatively in a thesis write-up and quantitatively in a financial/valuation model.
- We are looking for analysts who are independent non-consensus thinkers, with a passion for business model and industry research and who can develop investment insights to uncover companies that are misunderstood and mispriced via in-depth fundamental research.
Education
• Bachelor or master’s degree.
• MBA and/or CFA a plus
Computer Skills Needed to Perform this Job
• Proficient in Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint.
• Must be comfortable working in a largely digital and paperless environment.
Ariel celebrates diversity and practices inclusion as a way to get work done – it’s in our DNA. As an equal opportunity employer, our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, parental status, mental or physical disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law. Ariel is committed to recruiting and retaining talented applicants, and to providing all employees with a workplace free from discrimination and/or harassment.