Investment Research Analyst

Our Firm

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm’s 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.

We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives and ETFs.

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.

For more information, please visit americancentury.com.

The Role

This opportunity is a part of our MBA/Master's level early talent Analyst Development Program. In this program, you will rotate across our Growth and Value teams within our Kansas City Headquarters for typically 12-24 months. Research Analysts support the senior investment managers as an integral part of the team, providing technical support, researching prospective stocks and supervising current portfolio holdings, recommending purchases and sales, etc. After rotating within our Analyst Development Program and further refining their skills and experience as an Analyst, our Investment Research Analysts will then go on to permanently join either a Growth or Value discipline team as a part of their long-term career trajectory within the firm, based upon their success in the program and their investment philosophy preferences when being matched with a team.

Key responsibilities include:

• Research individual securities and industry groups for the purpose of recommending purchase, sale, or holding of the securities.
• Fundamental ("bottom-up") analysis of individual companies includes, but is not limited to: reading company documents, interacting with company management, synthesizing "street" research and building independent company models.
• Support senior teammates in fundamental research
• Maintain industry and/or company statistics that supplement the in-house database.
• Develop detailed understanding and knowledge of primarily large and mid-cap stocks.
• Attend investment conferences and company presentations.

We seek financial professionals with the following skills:

• Highly motivated, intelligent self-starter with the ability to work independently and as a member of the team and able to resolve priorities, plan, organize, and follow-through on assignments.
• Willing to internalize and implement American Century's disciplined investment process.
• Experienced at building and enhancing financial models
• Ability to coordinate, plan, prioritize and complete tasks and assignments with conflicting deadlines with consistent, high quality output
• Able to communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in written form with high accuracy and attention to detail.
• Open-minded, logical, driven, and highly ethical along with creativity, intellectual curiosity, and strong fundamental skills.
• Breadth of knowledge and interest should be suitable for covering multiple sectors.
• Strong investment research and analysis skills are required.

Required:

• Currently pursuing an MBA/Master's in a relevant field (Quantitative/Qualitative Financial programs)
• Undergraduate degree in business, economics, finance or a quantitative science required
• 1-5 years’ experience in broad-based, fundamental "bottom-up" company analysis and equity research with a buy-side institution
• Strong understanding of growth-oriented investment concepts and issues
• High degree of proficiency in MS Excel, Bloomberg and Adobe
• Coverage of both US and non-US equities preferred
• CFA designation preferred
• Proficiency in multiple languages preferred

Location/Workplace:

• This role will be based in Kansas City, MO out of our Headquarters (non-flexible). Relocation assistance can be provided to non-local candidates
• Hybrid Work schedule: 3 days in office, 2 days remote per week

Additional Requirements:

As a global firm with offices in several cities, we will uphold any local regulations regarding COVID-19 precautions and/or vaccination requirements for the workplace.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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