The Company

AME Research is an innovative research company within the financial services sector, we are currently growing our market share locally and overseas. We specialise in understanding company operations to provide greater clarity on future revenue and profit expectations. This is achieved by collecting production and financial data on a quarterly and annual basis, then adding our own engineering models and local knowledge. This provides more robust company valuations and forecasting. Our clients range from Government to Private Equity, they rely upon our expert analysis to make strategic and valuable decisions.

The Role

We are looking for methodical candidates with very strong analytic background and a logic approach to problem solving with the ability to learn quickly on the job whilst contributing to and improving our current practices to ensure maximum efficiency and accuracy. You will be working to achieve our common goal of helping to build our research effort by collecting meaningful company, asset and project data.

Key Responsibilities

• Analysis of the current system highlighting inefficiencies and creating a process map for executing identified improvements.
• Long-term plan for this role will include the design and implementation of a new system to integrate the current platforms to one portal. This will require taking end-to-end responsibility for the project and include the effective migration and management of this process.
• Bridge the gap between programmer developers and internal users to manage requirements, maintain UI and ensure UAT is carried out and documented.
• Individual asset and company analysis including ensuring the underlying data is robust to create long term appraisals for each entity.
• Ownership of updating data for the base metals industries currently covered and plan for onboarding new mentals to enhance suite of data available.
• Maintenance of system documentation and user guides and creation of training modules for both internal and external users.

Role requirements, experience, and skills

Essential:

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in analysis or data analytics with background as a company analyst, equity researcher or credit analyst preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, science, engineering or similar. 
• Previous proven experience facilitating system upgrade/improvements including producing business requirement documents, functional specifications and management of UAT.
• Polished written and oral communication skills with the capability to convey complex technical detail into succinct ‘plain English’.
• Creative solutions to problem solving.
• Comprehensive understanding of company financial statements.
• Strong analysis background and familiar with a range of data analysis techniques
• Strong attention to detail.
• Strong organisational skills and performance monitoring. 
• Ability to work in an agile environment.

• Excellent personal time management skills.
• Knowledge of programming languages notably SQL, Python or C#.

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft office programmes.

Valued:

• Basic understanding of base metals mining industry.

• An interest in understanding how a company really works or 'ticks' at an asset level.

Benefits

• An interesting and diverse role
• Be part of a progressive and comfortable team 
• $70,000 - $80,000 plus 9.5% super

How to apply

If this sounds like your next career move, we would love to hear from you. To apply please include a cover letter outlining your experience and why you wish to work with us, and a copy of your CV to [email protected]

Candidates based in Sydney, Australia, are preferred.

Please note: Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.