Job Description
Responsibilities include:
- Draft research reports including company updates, industry notes, alerts, and initiations
- Maintain, update, and analyze large databases (commodities, valuation comps, product pricing, etc.), including but not limited to syndicated data from Nielsen
- Maintain and update financial models and perform due diligence when necessary
- Candidates should have a strong interest in working in the securities industry
- Closely monitor consumer packaged goods industry news and trends
- Interact with company management teams, internal corporate constituencies (e.g., sales and trading), and buy-side clients
Qualifications & Skills:
- Candidate with 1-3 years of experience in Equity Research and/or Investment Banking preferred; experience covering consumer packaged goods industry with an emphasis on the food sector is strongly preferred
- Candidate must be a self-starter, very detail-oriented, resourceful, hard-working, and comfortable initiating contact and interacting with research sources
- Candidate must possess a strong financial acumen, including competencies in accounting/financial modeling, securities valuation, and an aptitude toward financial markets
- Candidate must have strong writing skills and the ability to work independently
- Candidate must have strong listening, verbal, written communication, and organizational skills
- Candidate with Series 7, 63, 86, & 87 licenses preferred
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range of $100,000 - $165,000.
About Us
Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (‘‘Jefferies,’’ ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’) is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia.
At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
Jefferies is committed to creating and sustaining a diverse workforce and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply. This includes applicants from historically underrepresented groups, including women, racial and ethnic minorities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, military veterans, and individuals with disabilities or who are neurodiverse.
Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.
The salary offered will take into consideration an individual’s experience level and qualifications. In addition to salary, Jefferies Financial Group is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible, full-time employees or part- time employees, who are scheduled to work at least 30 hours or more per week, including an annual discretionary incentive and retention bonus, competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Jefferies also offers paid time off packages that include planned time off (e.g., vacation), unplanned time off (e.g., sick leave), and paid holidays, and for full time employees, paid parental leave.
