Senior Research Analyst

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Reporting to the Engagement Research Manager, and working collaboratively across programs, the Senior Research Analyst supports SHARE to achieve real world impacts through solutions-focused corporate engagements and develop leading-edge research and analysis to support our mission. The Senior Research Analyst promotes synthesis and knowledge-sharing across SHARE’s teams.

The Senior Research Analyst will utilize a broad range of inputs to undertake financial, climate and risk analysis to produce high-quality memos, briefing notes and presentation materials for use by engagement analysts, program leaders, the CEO and Chief Strategy Officer.

The key responsibilities outlined below are descriptive in nature and are not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks, and duties.

• Prepare decision-useful memos, research materials, issue reviews and presentations to support high-impact, solutions-focused corporate engagements focused on companies, sectors, and thematic priorities.
• Assist in identifying governance, performance, compensation, and other risk-related issues at corporate issuers that may be relevant to engagement teams and institutional investors.
• Generate fundamental and competitive analyses of sectors, industries, and companies and financial or business case analysis for strategic improvements in corporate practice.
• Make strategic recommendations about targets, outcomes, timing, focus and activities for issues, sectors and companies based on thematic priorities.
• Support and/or design research frameworks and conduct research related to climate, sustainability, governance and financial issues relevant to investor portfolios and/or targeted asset classes, including public equities, fixed income, infrastructure, private equity, private debt and others.
• Review market news related to corporate governance, climate change, and other assigned topics, and keep engagement teams, as well as advisory, policy, and investor leadership personnel notified of relevant developments.

• Maximize utility from available resources, by assessing & incorporating applicability of acquired & free resources for informational, processing, operational & reporting use.
• Identify & recommend ways of improving research efficiency, certainty, accuracy & control using technological or process improvements.
• Maintain up-to-date, meticulous and accurate records using established systems, and as appropriate, recommend system improvements.

To be successful, the following skills are required at an intermediate professional level.

• Qualitative analysis
• Qualitative research
• Quantitative analysis
• Quantitative research
• Synthesis
• Financial analysis (corporate)
• Financial analysis (investor)
• Breaking-down problems
• Decision-making
• Strategic thinking
• Priority setting
• Problem solving
• Project evaluation

• Attention to detail
• Project management
• Record-keeping
• SMART goal setting

• Narrative writing for:
  • Briefing notes
  • Speaking notes
  • Presentation materials
• Technical writing

• Ability to generalize feedback from specific instances.
• Creativity
• Flexibility
• Integrity
• Independence
• Judgement
• Motivational regulation
• Multi-tasking and priority setting
• Political acuity
• Problem solving
• Reliability
• Resilience
• Self-awareness
• Team-orientation
• Tolerance of ambiguity

• Canadian Mining, retail, transport and utilities sectors.
• Climate frameworks
• Climate governance
• Corporate governance
• Climate policy
• Compensation frameworks
• Fiduciary duty
• Indigenous rights frameworks and policy
• Investment concepts
• Insti…