at Alvarez & Marsal Holdings LLC in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Description
About A&M
Alvarez & Marsal is a leading independent global professional services firm, specializing in providing turnaround management, performance improvement and corporate advisory services. With over 9,000 professionals based in 70+ locations across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, our firm excels in problem solving and value creation. Drawing on a strong operational heritage and hands-on-approach, our professionals work closely with organizations and stakeholders to help tackle complex business issues and maximize value.
A&M Insight Center is the rapidly growing research and benchmarking arm of Alvarez & Marsal. The mission of A&M Insight Center is to provide our professionals and our client executives 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&Ms founding principles, No shooting from the hip. A&M Insight Center 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.
Overview
A&Ms Insight Center is looking for a Research Analyst/Senior Research Analyst to join our growing team in either of our Chicago, Houston or Tampa office to help provide research to anyone in A&M globally based on workloads. You will be an integral part of the Insight Center, working with and for other team members in the USA, ultimately reporting into London where the Senior Director who manages the team Globally is based. The role involves working directly with client facing staff to deliver financial benchmarking, market and industry research, company research as well as macro-economic research and analysis. This research supports thought leadership, business development and on occasions in-depth client work. This role requires a keen ability to multi-task to deliver a wide range of research requests. You will also manage research pipelines for yourself and other third-party research providers that we use, help with research product evaluations, and train staff on research techniques and best practice.
There may be some travel required throughout A&Ms USA offices.
Responsibilities
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...
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