Junior Research Associate

Summary

Join YipitData's growing Investor Research team as a Junior Research Associate! Support senior analysts in crucial tasks, including client communication, data analysis, and custom data delivery using SQL/Python. Leverage your 1-2 years of experience in financial research or data analysis to contribute to high-impact work. Develop your skills, enhance data products, and make a significant contribution to a rapidly expanding company. YipitData offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for career growth. East Coast work hours are expected. Primary residency in the country of hire is required.

Requirements

• Have 1-2 years of experience in financial banking or investment research and have a strong understanding of business fundamentals
• Have experience as a research or data analyst, ideally with some exposure to SQL
• Have strong attention to detail and are a methodical problem-solver
• Have excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with internal teams across time zones and cultures
• Strive to make tasks as efficient as possible
• Be enthusiastic about making a big impact at a rapidly growing company
• Have primary residency (and be physically located) in the country of hire (AKA Colombia) in order to be considered for the position
• Maintain primary residency in the country of hire in order to be eligible for employment

Responsibilities

• Support high-impact work by helping the Research Analyst analyze financial models, identify segment-level trends, and convey client-facing takeaways
• Work with massive amounts of data to help answer our clients’ key questions about the companies we cover and the datasets we analyze. You will learn about our proprietary methods and techniques for ensuring data accuracy and deriving key insights
• Become a trusted resource for our internal stakeholders and sector teams, working with them to identify and answer their key questions. By contributing to data deliverables, custom analysis, or data reports consumed by the top investors in the world
• Improve our products and increase our coverage by supporting the Research Analyst in maintaining product integrity and completing deliverables to clients, including developing new features and product improvements. We value self-improvement and experimentation and expect you to enhance the products, pipelines, or processes that you own
• Sharpen SQL and Python skills , our new hire training program will enrich and expand SQL fundamentals

Benefits

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefit offerings
• Opportunities to grow your career by taking on new challenges, developing new skill sets, and driving more impact
• Regular career conversations with your manager where you will discuss your short and long-term career goals and how you are progressing
• Your growth at YipitData is determined by the impact that you make, not by tenure, unnecessary Facetime, or office politics
• Everyone at YipitData is empowered to learn, self-improve, and master their skills in an environment focused on ownership, respect, and trust
• Starting compensation is based on level and years of relevant experience
• We have a thoughtfully created career ladder and annual review process that are designed to reward strong performance with opportunities for compensation increases and advancement