Job description
Group Description:
Evercore ISI offers a high-quality, collegial and collaborative environment and a rapidly expanding research platform where exceptional contributors can look forward to longer-term career opportunities.
What is the position?
Evercore ISI seeks to hire a Junior Associate to support its Convertible Securities team located in New York. (Chicago based for the first few months, then will report into New York office).
Primary Responsibilities:
- Serve as primary touch point to Evercore platform for institutional investors (hedge funds, mutual funds, pension plans, etc.) focused on convertible bonds
- Deliver Evercore research platform to help inform client investment decisions and add value to their investment process
- Build close and trustful relationships with investors in order to garner client trading volumes and execute agency orders
- Work closely with capital markets to execute primary capital raise transactions for the firm’s corporate clients
- Author investment ideas and research summaries for our client base designed to aid in idea generation
- Uncover and onboard new institutional accounts who would find convertible bonds complimentary to their mandate
Specific Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 0 - 2 years of experience in sales / client relationship development
- Demonstrated interest in capital markets and investing
- Excellent communication/interpersonal skills; i.e the ability to build trusted relationships quickly
- Easily coachable with a desire to learn financial products and investment strategies
- Acute attention to detail and highly organized individual
- Ability to perform well under significant time pressures
- Ability to manage one’s time and thoughtfully prioritize client and firm needs
- Strong quantitative abilities
