Vacancy For MBA/Graduate/Post Graduate As Financial Analyst-DV With Franklin Templeton Investments At Hyderabad

Company: Franklin Templeton Investments
Website: https://www.franklintempleton.com/
Location: Hyderabad

Required Skills: MBA/Graduate/Post Graduate , Financial Analyst-DV
Required Exp: 3 to 5 years
Address: Hyderabad
Category: MBA Jobs

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At Franklin Templeton, everything we do is focused on one thing – delivering better client outcomes. We do that by partnering closely with our clients, assessing their strategic needs, and identifying the solution or solutions that can meet the challenge. Over 12,000 employees working in 34 countries around the world are dedicated to servicing investment solutions for our clients in more than 160 countries. For more than 70 years our success has been a direct result of the talent, skills and persistence of our people, and we are looking for qualified candidates to join our team.

What is the Financial Analyst in Global Research Library group responsible for?

The Financial Analyst (FA) under direction of a Supervisor/Manager, oversee wide range of financial and macroeconomic data & research services and resources in support of multiple investment management groups worldwide and their global equity and fixed income products. Apart from information research, charts, presentations, and other data visualization services are closely integrated with the investment research and client relations processes, and include investment performance, valuation and trends for different investment products, industries, and markets, among others.
Provide input, leadership, direction in developing strategy, service solutions or enhancements, and related policies and procedures to support operation. Maintain good working relationships with customers, team members, internal customers, external service vendors and business partners. Coordinate and/or support projects as needed. Document work flow procedures and business processes.
The FA works closely with portfolio managers and research analysts of different portfolio groups to understand their specific needs, and delivers information research, original charts, graphs, data, and presentations that are customized and personalized for each portfolio group and each client. The FA supports creation of the Investment Strategy chartbooks including global equity, commodities and currencies, fixed income and macro, country, industry-specific chartbooks, and macroeconomic & sector specific information research. The FA liaises and works with multiple vendors and with the back office teams to obtain the most relevant and accurate data/information; and validates data/information against multiple data sources.

What are the ongoing responsibilities of a Financial Analyst in Global Research Library group?

Conduct quantitative and qualitative research, obtain and analyze research/data, and use data to create charts, graphs and presentations:
Communicate effectively with portfolio managers and research analysts. Answer their inquiries in a timely manner.
Serve as subject matter expert in area of practice
Anticipate, evaluate, validate, and manage research, chart, data and presentation requests from portfolio groups.
Evaluate and validate data against multiple data sources
Reviews and analyze financial status of companies, including cash flow, debt, equity, operating income, etc.
Create, format, presentations/slides, and report edits/revisions, verifying accuracy and ensuring high quality output.
Accumulate data and summarize information into pertinent, understandable and presentable form.
Participate in and contribute to industry, sector, company, or geographic research.
Support special projects.
Develop, update, maintain and deliver regular library services such as country or sector information packages, stock screens, chartbooks, etc.
Understand and apply compliance/copyright to all research and DV services.
Improve data quality: uncover data defects, detect outliers, resolve missing/erroneous values
Provide advice, recommendations, and training on emerging data, chart, and presentation information trends to the team.
Coordinate and/or support requests/projects as needed
Document work-flow procedures and business processes, develop new processes
Develops strategies to retrieve relevant information efficiently and accurately from multiple sources
On an ongoing basis, assess client needs and evaluate research and DV services for continued relevancy
Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing research and data information tools (for example, FactSet, Bloomberg, Thomson Research) and develop strategies for improving or further leveraging these tools
Manage a repository of corporate slide sets and presentations
Evaluate and implement new process improvements and service initiatives
Other duties as assigned

What ideal qualifications, skills & experience would help someone to be successful?

Graduate/Postgraduate in business-related field, or equivalent experience
Candidates with PG/MBA/Master’s in finance/Economics are preferred
3-5 years’ experience in financial services, investment management industry
Minimum two years relevant experience on Information Services, Investment or business research, or data analysis
Expertise with quantitative and qualitative information/data related to macroeconomic indicators, company financials and stock information.
Proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel; working knowledge of Microsoft Office Outlook and Word.
Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles
Knowledge of financial markets, standard asset classes and various security types
Knowledge of online searching techniques necessary to retrieve, collate and synthesize financial and statistical data, broker research, company filings, and other types of information.

Knowledge, skills and abilities:

Familiarity with business/financial research systems such as FactSet, LexisNexis, Factiva and Bloomberg.
Ability to work in high pressure and fast pace environment
Ability to analyze, collate and understand requirements and deliver the required information through effective charts and graphs using data visualization skills
Understanding about macroeconomic and sector concepts/terminologies.
Ability to organize, prioritize work and deliver expected results within established timelines
Ability to analyze and resolve problems
Ability to work both independently and as a part of a team

Licenses and certifications:

Any certification on information services, research services preferred, but not essential
Any certification from financial markets such as NSE, BSE, IMFI, preferred, but not essential

Competencies:

Utilizes the full spectrum of financial calculations
Comfortable working with numerical data
Understand Valuation concepts.
Strong attention to detail and commitment to data integrity
Strong process analysis skills and ability to suggest improvements for efficiency and effectiveness of solutions. Ability to recommend and implement best practices
Create charts and presentations by accumulating data and summarizing information into pertinent, understandable and presentable form
Demonstrate ability to research, investigate, analyze, reconcile, and evaluate data and information.
Review and analyze financial status of companies, including cash flow, debt, equity, operating income, etc.
Ability to read and comprehend materials prepared by Quantitative analysts (quants)
Develops strategies to retrieve relevant information efficiently and accurately from multiple sources.
Identifies trends and developments in competitive environments and presents findings
Strong analytical skills, ability to resolve simple and complex issues quickly and accurately
Evaluate and validate data against multiple data sources
Demonstrate proactive and solutions-oriented approach towards business problems and process improvements
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Interest in learning new tools, processes and systems

Additional Desirable Qualifications:

Hands-on experience or certification on financial databases or power-user of FactSet and Bloomberg for presentation and research support is highly desirable

What makes Franklin Templeton Investments unique?

In addition to the dynamic and professional environment at Franklin Templeton, we strive to ensure that our employees have access to a competitive and valuable set of Total Rewards—the mix of both monetary and non-monetary rewards provided to you in recognition for your time, talents, efforts, and results.

Highlights of our benefits include:

Professional development growth opportunities through in-house classes and over 150 Web-based training courses
An educational assistance program to financially help employees seeking continuing education
Medical, Life, and Personal Accident Insurance benefit for employees. Medical insurance also covers employee’s dependents (spouses, children and dependent parents)
Life Insurance for protection of employees families
Personal accident insurance for protection of employees and their families
Personal loan assistance
Employee Stock Investment Plan (ESIP)
Onsite fitness center, recreation center, and cafeteria
Cricket grounds and gymnasium
Library
Health Center with doctor availability
Tuition Assistance Program
HDFC ATM on the campus

Franklin Templeton Investments is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We invite you to visit us at http://www.franklintempletoncareers.com/ to learn more about our company and our career opportunities