Are you passionate about equity markets? Are you gifted at assessing company strategies? Do you love researching what drives companies to succeed or fail?

UBS South Africa (Pty) Ltd is looking for an Equity Research Intern for a 24 month fixed term contract based in Johannesburg.

The role involves supporting and assisting our team of highly rated analysts in gathering information, processing and analyzing industry and financial data, and framing investment recommendations for presentation to institutional investment clients. The tasks will be varied and the role will involve extensive engagement with internal stakeholders as well as with external clients and companies in under coverage.

Role details:

• Assist Senior Analysts in providing investment recommendations based on modeling, proprietary data, valuation and risk assessments.
• Conduct financial statement analysis and build and maintain financial models to evaluate historical information and generate projections
• Analyze data to assess and describe current and long term trends at both an industry and company level
• Remain current on industry developments and market trends to help frame investment strategies
• Conduct valuation analysis within an industry, sector, or asset class
• Communicate with internal and external clients, as appropriate, to convey investment recommendations and ideas
• Actively monitor assigned coverage and respond to significant events on a timely basis
• Maintain research coverage by performing quarterly and more formalized periodic reviews of assigned researched companies
• Write research reports and notes on companies for distribution to the UBS sales forces and institutional investment clients
• Keep up-to-date on market news, and UBS Economists and Strategists’ views
• Review business/trade publications, annual reports, financial filings and other sources to gather/interpret data on companies in the sector