Job Description

About Alvarez & Marsal Companies, investors and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) for leadership, action and results. Privately held since its founding in 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that provides advisory, business performance improvement and turnaround management services. When conventional approaches are not enough to create transformation and drive change, clients seek our deep expertise and ability to deliver practical solutions to their unique problems. With 10000+ employees worldwide across 80+ offices in 25+ countries, we deliver tangible results for corporates, boards, private equity firms, law firms and government agencies facing complex challenges. Recognized as one of the Best Firms to Work For by Consulting Magazine since 2008 and ranked as a Top 3 Consulting Firm by Vault , A&M aims to be the leader in developing a great people proposition and using that as a differentiator to deliver value to the business. For details, please visit the company website: http://www.alvarezandmarsal.com About A&M Global Capability Center Private Limited In 2023, A&M established a high-quality global capability center in India. The capability center has dedicated centers of expertise which work with A&M leadership across multiple business units and geographies to enable efficient service delivery to A&M clients. The GCC is designed to efficiently and innovatively scale client delivery teams to meet ongoing demands. It helps A&M's global business units expand their talent pool in India, allowing them to hire specialized professionals, maintain competitive pricing, accelerate delivery speeds with a hybrid onshore-offshore team, and leverage automation with top-tier digital and analytics talent. The GCC blends industry and consulting professionals across multiple domains to drive change and add value. Unlike traditional GCC models focused on back-office support, we partner with case teams for end-to-end case delivery and thought leadership. Nearly 90% of our consultants hold advanced degrees, and our leadership team boasts over 1000 years of combined experience. We serve all major markets, including the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, and work across various industries such as Consumer & Retail, Healthcare, Software & Technology, Automotive & Industrials, Hospitality & Leisure, Energy & Natural Resources, and Financial Services. As we embark on this unique journey, the firm is actively seeking to build a strong, capable team for the center. The GCC is growing rapidly and is already a 250+ member team. About Insight Center A&M Insight Center is the rapidly growing research and benchmarking arm of Alvarez & Marsal. The mission of A&M Insight Center is to provide our professionals and our client executives with highly relevant, industry specific, actionable, fact-based insights derived through our proprietary benchmark and research studies on a global basis. The group was founded to adhere to one of A&Ms founding principles, No shooting from the hip”. A&M Insight Center supports client work and business development projects with an ever-growing toolbox of products, including custom benchmarking and research studies and targeted subscriptions and resources. The team considers research both a science and an art, and as such is committed to developing high quality, unique and insightful deliverables to support stakeholders. Who are we looking for? A&M’s Insight Center is looking for Research Analyst to join our growing team in Gurgaon, India to help directly support the research requirements of A&M’s Offshore Capability Center, plus anyone in A&M globally based on workloads. You will be an integral part of the Insight Center, ultimately reporting into London where the Senior Director who manages the team Globally, is based . The role involves working directly with the Offshore Capability Center to deliver financial benchmarking, market and industry research, company research as well as macro-economic research and analysis. This research supports thought leadership, business development and inJD – Research Analyst, Insight Center depth client work. This role requires a keen ability to multi-task to deliver a wide range of research requests. You will also manage research pipelines for yourself and help with research product evaluations Reports to : Senior Director – Insight Centre Location : Gurgaon Key responsibilities: You will fulfil a wide range of varied research requests from all divisions and across all levels. You will engage in the full life cycle of the request from the scoping phase to delivering the final output. These requests will include, but are not limited to the following examples: • Analyzing a range of country and company data, commodity pricing, and other variables to provide insight for “Points of View” documents that are used to deliver content for A&M clients about their current and future market position. • Providing data on various operational benchmarks such as company strategy, locations, sizing and company insights. • Identifying and obtaining reports from industry, financial, IT and news subscriptions and resources. • Conducting financial analysis on a range of companies to understand how they compare to their peers, how their debt is structured, what is their financial health. • Providing industry research on a variety of sectors, using both subscription and free research tools. • Help manage the research request pipeline through Salesforce.com. • Collaborate with the team to prioritize, coordinate and manage research requests. Mentor, train and guide junior members. • Promote the Insight Center and provide education on how to leverage and engage with the Insight Center. • Work collaboratively with counterparts in the global Insight Center team to drive a “onefirm” approach to research. What you bring Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in a related field (Relevant Information degree preferred). Related work experience in a similar role for at least 5-8 years with a professional service, consulting firm or other financial organization. Good project management skills, able to manage a research request pipeline, and multitask. Excellent analytical skills and research experience using research databases including, but not limited to, Payscale, Refinitiv (TO), Factiva, PitchBook, Orbis, Statista, Speeda, EuroMonitor, and GlobalData Strong knowledge and understanding of fundamental financial research, financial analysis, financial markets/trends, and customer research A solid grounding in secondary research and developing commercial insights Secure analytical skills, comfortable working with quantitative data and numerical analysis Ability to communicate complex ideas in a simple manner with exceptional written and verbal communication skills Ability to guide and mentor junior members of the team Motivated by constant learning and desire to build something meaningful with entrepreneurial mindset Ability to deliver high quality results, often in a time-constrained environment with flexible/adaptable and creative approach Results-oriented mindset and a team player with positive and “Let’s Get it Done” attitude; willing to pitch in where needed. Confident, independent, and logical thinker with a strong interest in insight