Research Analyst

Job Description

Job Purpose

To provide technical analysis assistance to the research team and investment team to support their investment activities in terms of timing of investments by assimilating information in reporting formats that is in sync with ABC's marketing and communications framework. The role entails in extending support and assistance to the research and investment team in conducting their primary work of investment analysis.

Job Context & Major Challenges

Aditya Birla Money Ltd. (ABML) is primarily a Broking Company, deals in Equity, Commodity & Currency. Workforce of 800 spread across 40 locations with customer base of in excess of 3 lacs. Commodity operations are managed through its 100% subsidiary Aditya Birla Commodities Broking limited. ABML is one of the leading securities trading companies in the country. ABML operates in a fragmented equity broking business and has a daily turnover of close to 3,000 Crores with a market share of 1%. ABM works in a highly regulated environment with a host of regulators like SEBI, RBI, AMFI, FMC, IRDA etc. regulating its day to day operations. In addition to the regulator ABML is also subject to close monitoring and inspection through various agencies like NSE / BSE / NCDX / MCX / NSDL / CDSL etc. ABML also operates in a highly competitive market mainly in fragmented industry with ABML competition from major National Broking houses like ICICI Securities, HDFC Securities, Angel Broking, MOFSL etc. and a range of local Broking outfits.

Majority of the broking houses have set up in-house research team that scans companies and stocks as well as analyse macro-economic scenario that impacts the stock market. The Research team is involved in analyzing the financials, competitive advantages of the business, quality of management and competitive environment it operates in among other factors.

The key responsibilities of Research - Support are:

. Communicating to clients about the investment philosophy, investment framework and individual portfolio updates in client accounts.
. To provide technical analysis assistance to the research and investment team to support their investment activities in terms of timing of investments.
. Generating short to medium term calls, to help the trading and broking side of the business.
. Assisting the research and investment team in assimilating information in reporting formats that is in sync with ABC's marketing and communications framework.

The primary challenges faced are:

. To provide time bound support to the research and investment team in carrying out their investment and research related work, as dissemination of actionable information is very critical in volatile markets.
. To identify near term and medium term trends ahead of competition, so as to provide investors/clients an opportunity to generate superior returns on a risk adjusted basis.elopers for managing change during the UAT and post implementation phase. Impact Analysis of the Change Requests on the system and follow up on bugs. It also includes Version up gradation and Product enhancement as and when required.
Product Support: Product support involves a series of activities which includes Providing Technical and Functional assistance to Internet clients throughout the trading hours and having a dedicated customer care desk for handling all types issues/queries.

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Key Result Areas