Company Overview
Glass Lewis is the world’s choice for governance solutions. We enable institutional investors and publicly listed companies to make sustainable decisions based on research and data. We cover 30,000+ meetings each year, across approximately 100 global markets.
Our customers include the majority of the world’s largest pension plans, mutual funds, and asset managers, collectively managing over $40 trillion in assets. We have teams located across the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific giving us global reach with a local perspective on the important governance issues. Founded in 2003, Glass Lewis is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Kansas City, Missouri; London, U.K.; Paris, France; Limerick, Ireland; Karlsruhe, Germany; Sydney, Australia; and Tokyo, Japan.
Position Description
We are looking for a meticulous and detail-oriented Senior Research Analyst, EMEA Research to join our dynamic research team in Manila. The successful candidate will be responsible for the preparation of the research reports and making voting recommendations to institutional investors. The candidate will also be collaborating with colleagues based in our EMEA offices. The role is a full-time, hybrid position that requires some regular office attendance. This position is based in our Makati City office.
Key Responsibilities:
- Write and edit research reports by reviewing publicly available information as disclosed by public companies, verifying data and issuing recommendations based on Glass Lewis policies.
- Analyze and make voting recommendations for governance and/or compensation related proposals in Europe, Latin America and Canada.
- Demonstrate firm competency in Glass Lewis governance policy; deviate from Glass Lewis policy and provide cogent explanations when necessary.
- Coordinate with research teams and human resources to hire and train research associates.
- Help to manage seasonal research associates, providing supervision and assistance in the writing and editing of research reports.
- Helps to improve training program for research associates.
- Contributes to policy and guidelines update processes, and contributes to annual content projects on an as-needed basis.
- Helps identify and implement possible changes to research tools on an ongoing basis.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- Mentor senior research associates, providing feedback and assistance in writing and editing of research reports.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- BA/BS degree required
- At least one year (two or more preferred) of experience in an active corporate governance research role.
- Intermediate skills in Microsoft Excel and Sharepoint. Basic understanding of HTML highly desired.
- Willingness to learn applications used to communicate with other teams (JIRA, Slack, Outlook, MS Teams etc.).
- Strong time-management, problem solving and people skills.
- Ability to work effectively and independently.
- Experience coaching, mentoring, or teaching is highly desired.
- Highly desirable but not essential language skills in the following: Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch, Nordic Languages.
This is a hybrid position with regular office attendance of approximately 2 days per week is expected.