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Position Description
The Bilingual Investment Analyst is accountable for providing accurate, complete and detailed investment analyses to the Fundamental Equity investment team in a timely manner to assist them in building focused, high-performing and well-structured portfolios. The investment analyses performed will focus on the financial and fundamental analysis of individual companies.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze company financial statements and fundamentals, including ESG factors, in order to provide critical information and analysis required in the investment decision-making process.
- Company analysis will include companies across various sectors.
- Present verbal and written reviews of company research to the Fundamental Equity team.
- Actively participate in portfolio construction meetings.
- Develop tools to enhance the team’s efficiency and processes
- Update and maintain financial models for researched companies in an accurate and timely manner.
Required Skill / Experience
Knowledge/Skills/Competencies:
- Undergraduate degree in finance/accounting/actuarial or graduate degree (e.g. MBA, MFin),
- CPA is an asset;
- Candidates need to have a CFA or committed to completing a CFA.
- Zero to five years of progressive work experience in financial services/investments/or relevant industry
- Strong analytical skills to complete detailed fundamental analysis.
- A strong understanding of financial statement analysis.
- Good understanding of business and economics to research target companies.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to deliver reviews and recommendations.
- Sense of judgment and self-discipline to evaluate multiple opportunities and make appropriate investment decisions.
- Team player.
- Strong computer and analytical skills (particularly Excel), including financial modeling.
- Familiarity with Bloomberg (including excel add-ins) would be an asset.
- Ability to learn quickly; demonstrated time management and organizational skills.
- Ability to work within tight and changing time constraints and to handle multiple tasks.
- Organized with attention to detail.
- Bilingual (French and English) is required
- Mastery of ESG databases and/or data providers such as MSCI, Sustainalytics, Trucost, Factset an asset.
What motivates you?
- Obsessing about customers, listening, engaging and act for their benefit.
- Thinking big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile approach and enable business outcomes.
- You thrive in teams and enjoy getting things done together.
- You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters.
- You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up.
- You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone.
Our commitment to you
- Values-first culture
- We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together.
- Boundless opportunity
- We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career!
- Continuous innovation
- We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services.
- Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.
- Championing Corporate Citizenship
- We build a business that benefits all stakeholders and has a positive social and environmental impact.
About Manulife Investment Management
Manulife Investment Management is the global wealth and asset management segment of Manulife Financial Corporation. We draw on more than a century of financial stewardship to partner with clients across our institutional, retail, and retirement businesses globally. Our specialist approach to money management includes the highly differentiated strategies of our fixed-income, specialized equity, multi-asset solutions, and private markets teams—along with access to specialized, unaffiliated asset managers from around the world through our multimanager model.
