Equity Research - Analyst

Job Description
If you are passionate and driven to set and achieve challenging goals, you have found the right team. Join our Equity Research team in Singapore, specializing in fundamental equity research. As an Analyst, you will leverage advanced tools, models, and data to provide clients with original and actionable insights, reports, commentaries, and strategies. Our team is dedicated to delivering first-class research, which is core to our value proposition and what our clients expect from us.
As an Analyst in the Equity Research team, you will be at the forefront of providing clients with insightful and strategic research. You will work closely with a dynamic team to deliver high-quality reports and analyses that drive client decisions. Your role is crucial in maintaining our reputation for excellence and innovation in equity research.
Job Responsibilities:

• Contribute to thematic sector reports and collaborate on cross-sector projects with other teams.
• Handle day-to-day client requests and needs efficiently.
• Communicate your team's ideas persuasively to internal and external parties, tailoring communications to client needs.
• Organize fact-finding trips and channel-check meetings upon clients' bespoke requests or for investor tours.
• Suggest new approaches or ideas to enhance your franchise as a business.
• Understand and adhere to the firm's risk management policies and applicable legal and regulatory rules.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics, or other related disciplines.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Business Mandarin reading/speaking proficiency to read documents in Chinese to support China clients.
• Proven analytical skills, not limited to accounting and finance.
• Ability to independently arrange fact-finding trips and channel-check meetings.
• Entrepreneurial drive with strong analytical and quantitative skills.
• Ability to complete a robust model (base and sensitivity cases) from start to finish with minimal guidance; mastery of the levers in the model.
• Ability to discuss in detail your understanding of the fundamentals/drivers (competitive landscape, risks) of your industry/country and thoroughly understand drivers of relevant markets to explain and anticipate market movements.
• Ability to synthesize disparate pieces of information and articulate a compelling thesis or argument clearly and cogently.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Minimum 1 year of experience preferred; background in Energy, Commodity, EV battery, Chemicals is a plus.
• Strong preference for trilingual analyst, basic Korean or Japanese to liaise with stakeholders from Korea and Japan.
• Preference for analysts with prior work experience in investigative journalism at a reputable media outlet.
• A CFA/CPA, or progress toward a CFA/CPA, is a plus.
• Demonstrates creativity in solving problems and always looks for new ways of doing things.
• Ability to thrive under competitive pressures and highly focused on business/client needs.
• Ability to interact comfortably with business clients and management.

About Us
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.