The HOLt Investment Product Specilaist team is looking for an Associate to join their London desk.

Credit Suisse HOLT offers clients unique insights into corporate performance and valuation, emphasizing a company's cash generating ability and overall potential for value creation. HOLT® employs a consistent and rigorous approach to investment analysis, providing a platform that allows investment managers to focus on their core competency: investment decision-making.
Credit Suisse HOLT has amassed a proprietary database on over 20,000 companies in more than 64 countries. We leverage our database through a suite of technology-driven tools that incorporate advanced accounting, financing and valuation principles. Our products and services help clients gain unique insights into corporate strategy, performance, and valuation, enhancing investment decisions across the capital structure.
Credit Suisse HOLT's ValueSearch software is used by over 600 money management institutions. Within Credit Suisse, the HOLT group employs in the region of 135 people and has a presence in the major Financial Centres including London, New York, Chicago, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore & Seoul.

The Investment Products & Analytics (IPA) team of Credit Suisse HOLT creates Equity Investment Products utilising the HOLT methodology. The team has constructed over 30 Custom Indices and Baskets for Retail and Institutional clients since 2006 and has placed significant volume of trades across these products. The team also produces quantitative insights for clients to help them improve their portfolio construction & stock selection methodology. The full suite of products include:

? Regional & Global, long-only Indices
? Alternative Indices - Market Neutral, Equity Hedged, Sector Rotation, Style Rotation, Commodity/Equity Switch
? Quantitative Factor Analyses

Work within the Investment Products & Analytics team of Credit Suisse HOLT (a global team of 12 people).

Areas of responsibility:

? Investment Products - Design, creation and maintenance of customised baskets & indices for clients.

? Client service - Product management and service continuity, managing client expectations through existing and new IPA client relationships, involve clients in design and content of custom products.

? Special Projects - Involved in project design, management and delivery for special client systems and internal projects; assist IPA team members with custom requests when required.

? Production -Work to a comprehensive ‘Report Schedule' for the IPA team which includes weekly, bi-weekly and monthly product generation and delivery.

? Accountability - for product content, delivery, and performance.

? Compliance - Adhere to, and monitor CREDIT SUISSE legal and compliance controls for systems and products.

Essential:

Business Degree or equivalent
Accounting
Valuation
Econometrics/Statistics
Experience in an investment banking environment
Equity Analysis skills
Excellent communication & presentation skills
Interest & knowledge of financial markets
Highly computer literate
Excel - Excellent working knowledge
MS Access - Good working knowledge
PowerPoint - Good working knowledge
External Data Providers - Familiarity with information retrieval systems and Market Data Sources such as Datastream, Factset, Bloomberg.

Desirable:

FSA Registered
Experience of databases
Detailed performance measurement and analysis
Experience in developing new products from databases
Proven liaison with clients, IT developers, intra-department and 3rd party data providers
CREDIT SUISSE Internal systems - Databridge (Database Query Tools), Rapport, Research & Analytics, ValueSearch, FTP Protocols
Statistical applications - Matlab, R, SPSS

As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Founded in 1856, Credit Suisse has a long tradition of meeting the complex financial needs of a wide range of clients, offering advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally. Credit Suisse is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 46,000 people. Further information can be found at www.credit-suisse.com.

Cultural diversity is essential to our success. As such, we employ people from more than 100 countries. Credit Suisse empowers employees to work openly and respectfully with each other and with clients, ultimately striving to deliver superior results while offering initiatives and programs to assist employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

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Credit Suisse is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of any protected category.

To the extent permitted or required by applicable law, a candidate who is offered employment will be subject to a criminal record check and other background checks before the appointment is confirmed.