Business Research Analyst (m/f/d)

Description

Alvarez & Marsal is a leading independent global professional services firm, specializing in providing turnaround management, performance improvement and corporate advisory services. With more than 7,500 professionals globally, 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.

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 8000 people across 5 continents and based in 70 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 Business Research Analyst (m/f/d) based in Munich working directly with project teams to deliver benchmarking, analytics and research services which support thought leadership, business development and client work.

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:

• Conducting financial analysis on a range of companies to understand their financial health, with particular focus on debt structures
• Creating market overviews to track industry trends
• Screening for data on the fixed income market at both a government and corporate level
• Sourcing commodity pricing/indices
• Identifying and obtaining reports from industry, financial, IT and news subscriptions and resources
• Assisting in Selling, General & Administrative (SG&A) functional and process benchmarking
• Help to manage the research request pipeline through Salesforce.com
• Collaborate with the team to prioritise, coordinate and project manage research requests that are sent to our third-party research partners
• Promote the Insight Centre and provide education on how to leverage and engage with the Insight Centre
• Work collaboratively with counterparts in the global Insight Centre team to drive a “one-firm” approach to research Positive and “Let’s Get it Done” attitude; willing to pitch in where needed

Essential requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in a related field (relevant Financial Analysis or Information degree preferred)
• Relevant work experience in a similar role
• Excellent analytical skills and research experience using Bloomberg
• Knowledge of other research databases Factiva, Capital IQ, APQC
• Financial research, financial analysis, and financial markets/trends
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Fluency in both German and English
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office (Excel)
• Good project management skills, able to manage a research request pipeline, and multi-task
• Demonstrable financial research, financial analysis, and financial markets/trends knowledge
• Outstanding customer relationship management skills, able to manage expectations, delivery timescales, and agree outputs

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.   

Diversity & Inclusion

A&M’s entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M’s core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity, and we foster inclusiveness, encouraging everyone to bring their whole self to work each day. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.

Voluntary Inclusion

It is Alvarez & Marsal’s practice to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, pregnancy, marital status, family status, religion, national origin, age or disability or any other non-merit based factor or any other characteristics in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.

Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters

Please note that as per A&M policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our Inclusive Diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that A&M will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.