Senior Associate-Qualitative Research

  • Gurugram
  • Acuity Knowledge Partners

Key responsibilities

  • Analyzing investment themes / strategies : Evaluating attractiveness of the overall sector / geography / company focused investment themes and strategies of the fund
  • Investment opportunity identification : Identifying emerging and high-growth sectors for investment assessment through market analysis such as market size, historical and projected growth rates, emerging market trends, key drivers, etc.
  • Conducting industry research : Identifying emerging and high-growth sectors for investment assessment through market analysis such as market size, historical and projected growth rates, emerging market trends, key drivers, etc.
  • New market identification & entry strategies: Identifying new markets for growth through analysis of market size, competitive landscape, growth opportunities and formulating organic and /or inorganic entry strategies
  • M&A and strategic analysis : Identification and analysis of potential targets through analysis of markets, products, services and financial synergies
  • Commercial due diligence support: Commercial due diligence of potential investment through analysis of the market opportunity, target company’s business model, its competitive positioning, etc.
  • New product identification and marketing strategies : Market segmentation, product benchmarking, pricing studies, competitor analysis to identify best of breed strategies for investee companies
  • Financial analysis (including but not limited to) : Analyzing financial statements to check various trends; Comparing performance of companies during business cycles; Ratio analysis, identifying relevant KPIs of the industries
  • Industry dashboards : Periodic monitoring of key industry drivers and performance indicators for specific industries
  • Portfolio company monitoring : Periodic tracking of business and financial performance indicators of portfolio companies and benchmarking those with their peer group for timely identification of upside and / or downside triggers
  • Project Management : Project structuring, planning, conceptualizing output, leading a team of 2-3 analysts, reviewing team’s work, signing-off before delivery
  • Client Management : Understanding project request, discuss project, negotiate deadline, handling client queries


Skills and experience

  • 4-6 year experience in strategy consulting/investment banking/private-equity/research sectors
  • MBA from reputed institutions
  • Strong business fundamentals and knowledge of business analysis skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to work effectively under tight deadlines
  • Dedicated and motivated individuals having demonstrated academic excellence with strong leadership, analytical, communication and teamwork skills
  • Proven project management skills