Senior Equity Analyst

Senior Equity Analyst

Join our firm! Our firm values your skills, your growth is encouraged, and your work truly makes a difference! If you thrive in a professional yet welcoming environment and want to be part of a boutique, employee-owned wealth management firm with a 40-year track record of success, this is your moment!

Why You’ll Love This Role

You will help us grow! This position will focus on identifying investments based on DAC's proprietary investment screens and performing fundamental research across several industries. Our disciplined investment process begins with bottom-up fundamentals and requires due diligence of industry and company-specific trends, company financial analysis, modeling, and valuation work. The Senior Analyst will then use this research to make specific investment recommendations for the client and institutional portfolios managed by DAC. 

What You’ll Do

•        Learn and adopt DAC's dividend growth investment philosophy while embracing DAC's team-based culture, which supports an environment of mutual respect and shared rewards.

•        Monitor DAC's existing equity investments, including posting quarterly earnings notes, maintaining price targets, and communicating current investment recommendations to Private Client and Institutional Asset Management teams.

•        Screen DAC's investment universe to identify new opportunities within DAC's defined investment universe.

•        Conduct a thorough fundamental analysis of a company's business and financial position, including cash flow assessment and dividend sustainability, balance sheet and income statement evaluation, and be able to draw insightful conclusions from their analysis.

•        Responsible for all aspects of DAC's fundamental research process, including company research, setting up remote and in-person meetings with company management, writing company or industry research reports, developing detailed valuation analyses, and modeling financial projections.

•        Monitor market conditions and evaluate current economic and investment trends.

•        Communicate investment opportunities within DAC verbally and through written research reports.

•        Contribute to DAC's client and institutional model portfolios as well as separate account non-model portfolios.

•        Perform other duties as assigned by the Chief Investment Officer

•        Be accountable and responsible for adhering to DAC's Core Values: Know Your Stuff, Devoted to Excellence, Serve With Integrity and Humility, Be Real and Transparent.

Qualifications

•        Bachelor's degree and completion or progress toward CFA® Level III are required; an advanced degree in Finance or Accounting is a plus

•        Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience (public or private equity investing)

•        Strong understanding of finance and accounting

•        Proficient with financial modeling and discounted cash flow analysis

•        Proficient in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

•        Working knowledge of FactSet and/or Bloomberg

•        Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

•        Flexible and team-oriented, with the ability to pivot from one task to another with minimal supervision

•        Self-motivated and entrepreneurial, with a demonstrated passion for investing

•        Intellectual curiosity with an ability to engage in thoughtful debates over the merits of an investment.

Dividend Assets Capital offers a comprehensive benefits package to support your health, wealth, and overall well-being.