Your Team Responsibilities
The Vice President of Investor Relations will play a critical role in MSCI’s execution of proactive Investor Relations programs, helping to communicate the firm’s financial performance and strategy to shareholders, prospective investors, and sell-side research analysts. The individual will work closely with senior management and collaborate with various internal teams to enhance MSCI’s investor communications, ensuring a robust and effective feedback loop.
This role provides exposure to the breadth and complexity of MSCI’s activities and will require sustained interaction with senior business leaders and firm leadership. Successful candidates will also have the opportunity to expand their work into other aspects of the Investor Relations team as workload and broader team resourcing permits. While the primary focus will be on Investor Relations, there will be some support for the company’s broader capital management initiatives, such as share repurchases and dividends.
Your Key Ressponsibilities
Key Responsibilities: Investor Relations
- Collaborate with the Head of Investor Relations, CFO, and other internal partners on the development of earnings releases, corporate presentations, and other corporate information
- Proactively respond to investor and analyst inquiries, and gather feedback to share with senior management.
- Build and maintain a comprehensive fact book that includes MSCI’s corporate history, industry background, and competitive landscape.
- Track sell-side analyst estimates, ratings, and price targets to keep management apprised of Wall Street expectations
- Conduct research on existing and prospective shareholders, preparing investor profiles, briefing materials, and collaborating with external market intelligence vendors.
- Track and log shareholder interactions in the company’s CRM system.
- Design, maintain, and enhance Investor Relations collateral and presentations for investor events, such as roadshows, conferences, 1:1 meetings, Board of Directors, and Annual General Meetings.
- Develop and manage timelines for earnings calls and other investor-related events like non-deal roadshows, conferences, and Investor Days.
- Actively monitor and maintain analyst consensus models, identifying variances against company guidance and long-term targets.
- Maintain internal financial dashboards and KPIs related to quarterly investor activities.
- Partner with FP&A and Controllership to gather and analyze financial data to assist with investor communications.
- Assist with ad-hoc strategic finance projects as needed
Capital Management Support (Limited Focus)
- Support long-term value creation by assisting with the optimization of share repurchases, dividends, and capital allocation strategies.
- Assist with planning and executing financing transactions as needed.
- Support global cash management and maintain relationships with lending banks and rating agencies.
Your skills and experience that will help you excel
- 5+ years of sell-side, buy-side, or investing experience, or strategy roles; other highly analytical backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Prior Wall Street/equity investing experience is highly valuable.
- Strong financial modeling skills and extensive experience conducting both quantitative and qualitative analysis, with a solid understanding of public company financial filings and disclosures.
- Strong written and verbal communication/presentation skills with a proven ability to present complex analyses to executives and senior management in a clear and concise manner.
- Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel; familiarity with financial tools such as Power BI, Qlik, and Salesforce is a plus.
- Experience working within international, multicultural teams across multiple time zones.
- Strong organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to build credibility with senior internal and external stakeholders.
About MSCI
What we offer you
- Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing.
- Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.
- A culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results.
- A global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients.
- Global Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development.
- Multi-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles.
- We actively nurture an environment that builds a sense of inclusion belonging and connection, including eight Employee Resource Groups. All Abilities, Asian Support Network, Black Leadership Network, Climate Action Network, Hola! MSCI, Pride & Allies, Women in Tech, and Women’s Leadership Forum.
At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our purpose – to power better investment decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.
MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.
MSCI Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce. It is the policy of the firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy (including unlawful discrimination on the basis of a legally protected parental leave), veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. MSCI is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please email Disability.Assistance@msci.com and indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Please note, this e-mail is intended only for individuals who are requesting a reasonable workplace accommodation; it is not intended for other inquiries.
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