Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sunlight Partners is a short activist hedge fund targeting uncorrelated returns and environmental impact through institutional-grade short activism. The Research Analyst will investigate companies using primary sources, conduct forensic accounting and financial analysis, evaluate ESG and sustainability claims, and collaborate on investment research reports.
Responsibilities
- Dig into primary sources: filings, technical disclosures, permitting records, court dockets. You pick up the phone to call former employees, competitors, customers, and regulators
- Conduct forensic accounting and financial analysis, while stress-testing ESG and sustainability claims against reality
- Collaborate with the investment team on report writing, from first draft to final publication
Skills
- Relentless . Comfortable cold calling and digging for primary information, pursuing leads without direct supervision
- An instinct (or the hunger to build one) to focus on what actually drives a stock, versus what's just noise
- Coachable and a team player. Open to feedback, willing to learn, ego left at the door. We're a small team, learning and getting better together
- Financial analysis, accounting or equity research experience
- An environmental, chemical, process, or industrial engineering background
- Prior work in short selling, activism, investigative research, or journalism
- Alignment with our environmental mission preferred
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement
- Meaningful responsibility from day one
- Direct exposure to how research becomes market action
- Training on how to write and guidance on investment targets
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