Job Type: Finance
Financial Analyst
Industry: Finance
Our client is a large investment management firm.
Job Description:
Write reports on the companies they are supposed to cover, trying to describe the businesses and their opinion of the company’s investment potential, usually from a fundamental analysis standpoint; summarize that report with a rating, such as “buy”, “sell”, “market perform”, “overweight”, “hold”, etc.
Work for banks, insurance companies, mutual and pension funds, securities firms, and other businesses, helping these companies or their clients make investment decisions; those employed in Commercial lending perform “balance sheet analysis,” examining the audited financial statements and corollary data in order to assess lending risks; in a stock brokerage house or in an investment bank, they read company financial statements and analyze commodity prices, sales, costs, expenses, and tax rates in order to determine a company’s value and project future earnings; in any of these various institutions, the analyst often meets with company officials to gain a better insight into a company’s prospects and to determine the company’s managerial effectiveness; analysts also study an entire industry, assessing current trends in business practices, products and industry competition; must keep abreast of new regulations or policies that may affect the industry, as well as monitor the economy to determine its effect on earnings; also use spreadsheet and statistical software packages to analyze financial data, spot trends, and develop forecasts, and write reports based on their results
Evaluate the ability of companies or governments that issue bonds to repay their debt; on the basis of their evaluation, a management team assigns a rating to a company’s or government’s bond; other financial analysts perform budget, cost, and credit analysis as part of their responsibilities
General Requirements:
3-5 years experience
Location: Tokyo
Created: 2007-06-24 21:33:29
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Location: Tokyo
Salary Month JPY: Negotiable
