Research Analyst - Corporate Transactions

FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.

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Your Team's Impact

The Corporate Transactions Collection team tracks M&A, private placements, and growth transactions for public and private companies. The team provides detailed, timely updates on mergers, divestitures, spinoffs, and deal terms to help clients analyze M&A trends. Information is sourced daily from newswires, financial institutions, company filings, and other reputable sources, with accuracy and timeliness as key priorities.

As a Research Analyst, you will collate, maintain, and update database information from official sources such as feeds, corporate action emails, and press releases, ensuring timely and accurate delivery to FactSet clients. You will be responsible for achieving individual and team targets under the guidance of the Team Lead. Shifts are on rotation based on business needs. You will work based on company's onsite requirements and may be required to be onsite full-time during training.

What You'll Do

• Ensure smooth day to day execution and delivery of your individual goals on your market and other assigned tasks
• Achieve quality, timeliness, and productivity metrics
• Attend all training requirements for process, methodology, workflows, and systems
• Keep track of all communications on updates and new processes and procedures
• Acquire a good understanding of FactSet content, particularly in Private entities content collection and workflow
• Adhere to systems procedures, document analysis measures and database maintenance protocols
• Comply with knowledge alignment activities by participating in Process Knowledge Test
• Exercise ownership and accountability of all assigned tasks
• Adapt to ad hoc business requirements
• Attendance to and participation in meetings
• Attendance to skills’ enhancement courses
  
  

Required Skills

What We're Looking For

• Graduate in Commerce / Business Management / Finance / Accounting / Economics or equivalent
• Strong communication, organization, and interpersonal skills
• A proactive, confident thinker proficient in multi-tasking
• Intermediate analytical and numerical skills
• A proactive, confident thinker proficient in multi-tasking
• Highly self-motivated who can work independently as well as in a group setting.
• Enthusiasm, a strong sense of initiative, able to prioritize, with an eye for detail and commitment to accuracy.
• Completion of internal department training program/s
• Willing to work on shifts
• Willing to be assigned to other projects
  
  

Desired Skills

• Fundamental understanding of the M&A and/or private equity/venture capital space and the activities therein, with a solid understanding of financial and investment management concepts
  
  

What's In It For You

At FactSet, our people are our greatest asset, and our culture is our biggest competitive advantage. Being a FactSetter means:

• The opportunity to join an S&P 500 company with over 45 years of sustainable growth powered by the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up.
• Support for your total well-being. This includes health, life, and disability insurance, as well as retirement savings plans and a discounted employee stock purchase program, plus paid time off for holidays, family leave, and company-wide wellness days.
• Flexible work accommodations. We value work/life harmony and offer our employees a range of accommodations to help them achieve success both at work and in their personal lives.
• A global community dedicated to volunteerism and sustainability, where collaboration is always encouraged, and individuality drives solutions.
• Career progression planning with dedicated time each month for learning and development.
• Business Resource Groups open to all employees that serve as a catalyst for connection, growth, and belonging.
  
  

Learn More About Our Benefits Here.

Salary is just one component of our compensation package and is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, and certifications.

Company Overview

FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.

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