Private Equity Researcher for International Consulting Firm

Job description / Role

Private Equity Researcher for International Consulting Firm, Beirut
The Middle East Research Hub is comprised of a team of seasoned researchers with a clear mandate to support client projects and marketing efforts through in-depth industry knowledge, insights, and access to specialist information sources. The candidate will be responsible for the following:
• General research support: Ad-hoc research that includes downloading datasets, macro and financial indicators and data on market sizing and growth.
• Practice sector research support: Conducting thorough industry research and analysis services f project and proposal teams.
• Value-added services: Working closely with client staff as extended or embedded team member to develop sections of deliverables that are aligned to service menu products (Company profiling and financial analysis, benchmarking exercises, industry insights newsletters/competitive landscape awareness)
• Knowledge Products: Supporting the development of research toolkits and knowledge products for the team.
Responsibilities:
• 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 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 work streams 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.

Requirements

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

About the Company

RecruitME are a specialized recruitment consultancy supplying top tier business support staff to Dubais leading multinational organizations. We carefully source, screen and select only the very best candidates to assist our clients in making easier recruitment decisions faster.

Differentiating ourselves from standard recruitment agencies our consultants have been carefully chosen for their backgrounds in business support for leading multinational organizations. Having been both the client and the candidate previously, we have an insiders understanding of the recruitment process and our clients needs.

What we do:

Specializing in business support positions we can assist in introducing a small selection of experienced administration, finance and human resource candidates with the relevant experience to benefit your business. Our careful screening process ensures that we have met with and can give a concise overview of each candidates skills and current situation before you meet them.

We pride ourselves on sending our clients only the very best available candidates in the market to ensure a simplified, hassle free and timely recruitment experience for all involved.