Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Financial Analyst. This role will get you involved in many aspects of the business and interacting with the executive team. This is a great opportunity for the right, smart, motivated, and engaged person.

Reporting to the Head of Investor Relations (the Investor Relations Officer or “IRO”), this team member is responsible for collaborating with and supporting the development and execution of the global investor relations program.

Specific responsibilities:
• Supports the collection and analysis of relative stock price movements, investors' and analysts' perceptions and opinions, and stock ownership.
• Perform research and analysis of industry, peers and competitors’ financial statements, operational statistics and valuation – as well as other ad-hoc analysis as needed.
• Collaborates with Communications and Marketing team on strategic communication including financial public and media relations.
• Provides organization, logistical, and administrative support for investor/analyst conference calls. Collaborates in the preparation of related scripts and practice questions.
• Aids in the development, design, writing, production and coordination of investor relations presentations to the financial community, as well as other investor materials including press releases and transaction releases.
• Assists the finance team in internal preparing board presentations.
• Handles logistics and administration for conference calls, webcasts, IR website, analysts’ days, analysts meetings, investor roadshows, the annual meeting of shareholders, and other support duties.
• Assist in shareholder questions/issue resolution, as needed.

Skills

Experience, skills, and knowledge required:
• 2-5 years of experience doing in-house investor relations, competitive intelligence, strategy, corporate finance, financial reporting, or similar positions for a publicly-traded company; alternatively, 2-5 years of experience in corporate finance, investment banking, or equity research, at an investment bank or investment firm. In-house investor relations experience is desirable if it is from the finance angle rather than the PR or marketing angle.
• We are not looking for someone with in-house public relations or marketing experience, or someone with agency experience doing public relations, marketing, or investor relations.
• Prefer someone with a strong knowledge and background of the capital markets, and who has worked on Wall Street or for a Wall Street-related firm.
• Outstanding financial and investment analysis skills.
• College degree required. A master's degree is nice but not needed. We strongly prefer finance, accounting, or economics majors.
• Strong interpersonal skills, superior intellect, and an outstanding ability to communicate, including strong oral and written communication skills, as well as presentation ability.
• An energetic, efficient, self-motivating and resourceful team player and individual contributor.

Company Description

About BGC Partners, Inc.
BGC Partners is a leading global intermediary to the wholesale financial markets, specializing in the brokering of a broad range of financial products, including fixed income securities, interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, equities, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, commodities, futures, structured products and other instruments. BGC Partners also provides a full range of services, including trade execution, broker-dealer services, clearing, processing, information, and other back office services to a broad range of financial and non-financial institutions. BGC Partners’ integrated platform is designed to provide flexibility to customers with regard to price discovery, execution and processing of transactions, and enables them to use voice, hybrid, or, where available, fully electronic brokerage services in connection with transactions executed either OTC or through an exchange.

Through its eSpeed and BGC Trader brands, BGC Partners uses its proprietary, built, and paid for technology to operate multiple buyer, multiple seller real-time electronic marketplaces for the world’s most liquid capital markets. The Company’s pioneering suite of tools provides end-to-end transaction solutions for the purchase and sale of financial products over its global private network or via the Internet. BGC Partners’ neutral platform, reliable network, straight-through processing and superior products make it the trusted source for electronic trading for the world's largest financial firms. Through its BGCantor Market Data brand, the Company also offers globally distributed and innovative market data and analysis products for numerous financial instruments and markets. BGC Partners’ customers include many of the world’s largest banks, broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds, governments and investment firms.

BGC’s unique partnership structure and extensive employee ownership create a distinctive competitive advantage among its peers. Named after B. Gerald Cantor, who was the co-founder of the Company’s predecessor, BGC Partners has 19 offices in New York and London, as well as in Beijing (representative office), Chicago, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Moscow Mexico City, Nyon, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto. For more information, visit http://www.bgcpartners.com. The Company’s corporate address is: BGC Partners, Inc., 499 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10022. The media, analysts, and investors can also subscribe to BGC Partners’ investor “Email Alerts” at the “Investor Relations” section of http://www.bgcpartners.com.

Additional Information

• Local candidates only, no relocation (Greater New York City Area).