Job Description

Role: Fundamental Equity Analyst, APAC
Location: Singapore, Hong Kong
Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients. We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. With offices around the globe, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology and operations teams functionally around the world. Building on our quantitative research platform and process-driven approach, Squarepoint also runs discretionary strategies to take advantage of opportunities which are not suitable to be traded in a systematic strategy.
We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with a passion for equity markets to join our Fundamental Equity Research team as a research analyst in Singapore; the position will be initially a Generalist role focused on APAC Equity Capital Markets (ECM), with potential to expand the scope of stock coverage across the broader APAC equity markets. This is an opportunity for you to leverage cutting edge resources both internally and externally to collaborate closely with teams globally across the business to improve and scale our single stock expertise across the entire APAC region.
Responsibilities:

• Key focus is on performing fundamental equity analysis on private and public companies in the APAC region
• Contribute towards investment recommendations initially in APAC ECM with a path to expand coverage to other units across the firm
• Conduct bottom-up fundamental research in a Generalist capacity including market analysis, industry / sector deep-dives and company valuation
• Create single stock models utilizing key metrics, stock drivers, and accounting principles
• Build relationships with private and public companies, and sell-side partners across the region

• 3-5 years of relevant industry experience in an equity research (buy-side / sell-side) or investment banking role
• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree or equivalent experience, preferably in finance, economics, engineering and/or computer science
• Passion for public markets and equity research
• Solid understanding of corporate finance, accounting principles and financial statement analysis
• Strong written, communication and analytical skills with a detailed oriented mindset
• Ability to work on multiple workstreams across several teams
• Ability to build effective relationships externally and collaborate with teammates globally
• Programming knowledge in Python is preferred but not required