Research Analyst

Board-Ready Analysis - Prepare investment memoranda, business cases, and strategic briefing materials for the Group CEO and Castle Steering Group. Your analysis needs to be sharp, defensible, and decision-ready—no fluff, just insight.

Market Intelligence & Trends - Maintain ongoing sector surveillance across hospitality, property, technology, and energy. Identify emerging opportunities, competitive threats, and market shifts before they become obvious. Be the person who sees what's coming.

Investment Research & Deal Flow - You'll actively research and evaluate new investment opportunities across sectors, conducting rigorous market analysis, competitive positioning, and commercial due diligence. You'll build the business cases that inform go/no-go decisions on new ventures and acquisitions

Cross-Functional Intelligence - Work alongside the Strategic Advisor on high-level strategy, collaborate with the Investment Manager on deal structuring, and coordinate with the CEO's EA to ensure seamless execution of research deliverables and presentations.

Portfolio Momentum Management - Keep existing businesses focused and moving forward. You'll identify operational bottlenecks, research efficiency improvements, analyze performance metrics, and recommend actions that unlock growth across the portfolio.

Strategic Due Diligence - Execute detailed investigations into potential investments—financial modeling, cross-comparisons against market leaders, risk assessment, and operational feasibility. Your work will directly inform capital allocation decisions, not sit in a filing cabinet.

• The CEO relies on your analysis to pressure-test opportunities and strategies
• You're involved in conversations about strategy, not just asked to run the numbers

Agile Operator

High-Achiever Mentality

We're looking for an exceptional Research Analyst—a high-achiever with 5-7 years of battle-tested experience who's ready to move from advising on deals to being inside them. If you've been waiting for a role where your analysis directly influences investment decisions and your recommendations shape strategy, this is it.

• Direct experience in deal analysis, due diligence, or investment evaluation
• You thrive in fast-moving environments where priorities shift and speed matters
• Existing businesses accelerate because you've identified the bottlenecks and solutions
• Humble enough to learn, confident enough to challenge assumptions constructively
• 5-7 years in investment banking, management consulting, or corporate strategy
• Can balance thoroughness with pragmatism—knowing when 80% certainty is enough to move
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to structure unstructured problems
• Professional demeanor with discretion around sensitive commercial information
• Confident presenting to and engaging with the Group CEO and senior leadership
• Excellent written and verbal communication—you can distill complexity into clarity
• Resilient under pressure and energized by intensity rather than overwhelmed by it
• Comfortable working across multiple projects simultaneously without losing quality
• Sharp commercial awareness across multiple sectors
• Demonstrated ability to build robust financial models and business cases
• Track record of influencing senior stakeholders with analytical insights
• Track record of being the "go-to" analyst on your team
• You've built a reputation for delivering sharp, actionable insights under tight timelines