Research Analyst (Intern)

Iconic is a world-class team of experts enabled by a technology platform to help business owners sell their businesses faster, more efficiently, and to higher-quality buyers. Our vision is to help small and midsize business owners realize meaningful exit value and create a new generation of business owners through our end-to-end M&A service platform. Iconic is backed by Expa, Oceans Ventures, and other strategic investors, and is revolutionizing the small business M&A industry. Learn more at https://iconic.co/

Your role

You will be a Research Analyst (Intern) at Iconic tasked with researching particular market sectors and businesses, and talking to potential customers & partners. You will work heavily in Pitchbook and/or Cap IQ to run queries and create reports. In addition, you’ll help the team with cleaning up various databases and financials. Based on abilities and appetite, there will be opportunities to take on more projects in different areas of the team. You will be an early team member and will make a significant contribution to the product & company.

The ideal candidate will be intellectually curious, resourceful, independent, have an aptitude for analytics, and find problem solving exhilarating. The key to success in this role is conducting superior analysis, translating that analysis into informed decisions, and then testing those decisions in a live environment. Your recommendations, based on sound analytics, will help determine how we improve our products. You’ll be working with a world-class team who have built and shipped products valued over $8B today.

Your responsibilities

• Conduct research, compile about industry and customer trends

• Run queries on buyers and sellers, and then create reports

• Apply your expertise in analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how our potential users will interact with our products

• Help with cleaning up various databases and financials

• Create financial and business models, matrices and other basic tools to help team members analyze business needs.

• Ad hoc projects to provide research and analytical support to stakeholders across various teams (product, eng, design, etc)

Your experience

• You are a driven undergraduate or graduate student in a quantitative field (Econ, Finance, Math, Business, etc)

• You must have access to PitchBook and/or CapIQ

• Openness to new technologies and creative solutions

• Excel is your middle name. You’re comfortable with crunching numbers and financial models and spreadsheets of data coming out of our research (public and private company data, market data, etc)

• Previous experience in presenting data in a succinct and user friendly way to a variety of audiences.

• Passionate data-driven decision making.

• Strong business judgment and demonstrated ability to probe, drill and analyze elusive problems with minimal supervision.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Attention to detail

This will be a part-time position with a salary range of $20-$25/hr for up to 10 hours per week, which is determined by various factors, including, but not limited to, work experience and skills. This person is expected to be in the office one day per week (Tues, Wed, or Thurs), which is located in West Hollywood, CA.