Company DescriptionWNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), is a leading Business Process Management (BPM) company. We combine our deep industry knowledge with technology and analytics expertise to co-create innovative, digital-led transformational solutions with clients across 10 industries. We enable businesses in Travel, Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Shipping and Logistics, Healthcare, and Utilities to re-imagine their digital future and transform their outcomes with operational excellence.We deliver an entire spectrum of BPM services in finance and accounting, procurement, customer interaction services and human resources leveraging collaborative models that are tailored to address the unique business challenges of each client. We co-create and execute the future vision of 400+ clients with the help of our 44,000+ employees.Job DescriptionRoles and responsibilitiesCandidate will be working as an equity research analyst (for sell-side or buy-side equity clients) and is expected to manage his/her work independently with end-to-end ownership of client projects. Work types will include—Preparing/updating financial models for coverage companies and conducting valuation (using DCF, Relative Valuation, SoTP, etc.) Contributing to various reports for coverage sector–earnings notes, investment teasers, initiating coverage notes, sector notes, thematic notesIssuing timely updates on company events/sector events/trend-changing events and gauging the impact on valuation/recommendation of stocksMaintaining sector-specific databases and periodicalsPreparing custom financial dashboards and screeners based on appropriate financial and operating metrics Supporting the client on ad-hoc research tasks relating to companies, sectors or themes Manage client communication independently including one-to-one client communication, contributing to morning meetings and dealing with the sales team of clientsShould be able to contribute to certain product/process development exercises for the clientContribute/work on important pilot projects Create IPs/white papers/blogs/articles/teasers which can be used for marketing purposesIdeal Candidate 5-8 years of experience in financial and/or investment research in a KPO or advisory firmSolid experience in financial modelling, forecasting, valuations, writing investment researchStrong grasp of financial concepts and their applications across equity research Suitable understanding of capital markets and macroeconomic trends Experience in end-to-end execution of projects and communication with clientsKnowledge of various databases such as Bloomberg, Thomson Eikon, DataStream, Capital IQ Excellent secondary research skillsQualificationsGraduate or above
