Equity Research Associate

Location: Canada (Remote)

Reports to: Associate Director, Research

About AlphaSense: 

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. 

The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. 

Our platform is trusted by over 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with over 2,000 people across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com.
About the Team:

The Research Coverage Team provides AlphaSense clients with the cleanest, richest, best structured fundamental data and models on global public companies. Firms across financial services and corporate markets globally rely on our financial model library to drive efficiency across their teams and to ground their financial analysis in sound fundamental data. By bringing financial modeling and technology together, our team makes generating independent research more efficient and helps generate higher-conviction investment ideas. We’re an energetic team with a healthy obsession with accuracy and a love of stocks and technology.

About the Role:

We are looking for an Equity Research Associate with a passion for Equity Research. Our ideal candidate has a solid capital markets foundation or deep subject matter expertise in a particular field and is looking to make the jump to Equity Research. 

Contribute your foundational knowledge in capital markets or deep subject matter expertise to growing, developing and maintaining our public equity model library. If you are looking for an organization where you will be able to make an immediate impact on our business and your career, join us and take the next step! 

What You’ll Do:

• Build and support the review of detailed financial models on both existing and new coverage across all global geographies
• Update models for earnings season
• Contribute to sub-sector specific and coverage wide model improvements
• Conduct historical financial statement analysis and future period forecasting
• Develop sub-sector expertise to support the development of modeling standards, dashboards for comparative analysis, and new model features
• Document sector and subsector modeling best practices
• Support Analysts in providing exceptional client service to all clients
• Conduct other ad-hoc general research and other company due diligence
• Participate in training new members of the Research Team

Who You Are:

• At least two years of relevant experience in equity research or equivalent education and experience  
• Bachelor’s degree in finance and/or your sector
• Intense curiosity about both individual equities and the capital markets in general
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills
• Strong communication skills
• Strong work ethic
• Highly team-oriented 
• High integrity 
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to deliver under pressure and work to tight deadlines
• Strong financial modeling skills an asset
• MBA or Graduate degree an asset
• Completion or progress towards a CFA or similar designation an asset 
• Leadership experience an asset
  

AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

Base Compensation Range*: $50,000 - $62,500
Additional Components: You may also be offered a performance-based bonus, equity, and a generous benefits program.

*For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all US-based roles based on function, level and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including geographic location as well as candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.