Researcher PE-SIF

Our client is a leading global consulting firm, helping the world's top businesses, governments and organizations. Looking for a new "Researcher PE-SIF" covering Middle East region.

This position reports to the Research Manager. 

Primary duties and responsibilities

Research and analysis

• Autonomously support client project and proposal teams on research requests pertaining to private equity, sovereign wealth funds and real estate, by leveraging internal and external subscriptions across the Strategy& network.
• Conduct research to obtain information for benchmarks, company profiles, financial analysis, industry baselines and market trends, with minimal oversight.
• Become familiar with internal intellectual capital availability and work with topic specialists to create well-rounded research outputs.
• Synthesize findings and key takeaways in an easy to read, presentable format (Excel and/or PowerPoint).
• Coordinate and schedule request delivery to ensure on-time and quality outputs.
• Liaise with the energy, utilities and resources team leads to plan upcoming research needs of projects.
• Serve as an embedded team member on client engagements to support select workstreams by taking full ownership of data requirements, research, and synthesis.
• Support in creation of digital tools to aid client staff teams to work efficiently and easily extract relevant trends and insights.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities

Qualifications:

• University degree or equivalent, preferably with 4 years of experience in consulting or research; Private equity or real estate experience are a plus.

Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; proficiency in Arabic (reading and speaking) is preferred.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills
• Strong fundamental research and analytical skills.
• Experience working with Excel and PowerPoint
• Team player with a strong work ethic and a desire to assume significant responsibility.
• Innovative thinking and willingness to push boundaries.
• Proactive self-starter, able to work with minimal supervision.
• Strong work ethic and a desire to grow.