Senior Investor Relations Analyst

Requisition 38757: B4 Senior Investor Relations Analyst 

 

Primary Purpose

Provide analytical and organizational support to Senior Director Investor Relations by collecting, normalizing, and performing financial analysis on NS and other railroad and freight transportation companies as generated by the industry participants and the investment community.  Update and track shareholder information for NS and rail industry.  Further, the Senior Investor Relations Analyst assists in planning and preparing investor engagements and outreach - often involving NS senior executives.

 

Principal Duties

• Collect analyst reports and models, extract key conclusions and trends, distribute findings to interested NS parties
• Understanding of financial statements, concepts and statistics, mechanics of financial models created by analysts, and their importance to the analyst community
• Ability to generate financial models when provided data and develop an NS financial model suitable for easy comparison to analyst models
• Ability to network internally across NS to facilitate and fortify investor messaging and timely responses to investor inquiries
• Identify trends and basic conclusions from railroad financial statements and models
• Update and track shareholder information for NS and rail industry, including activist monitoring
• Update and track stock performance relative to peers and broader indexes
• Document industry-wide themes resulting from the economy, railroad performance, and internal- and external analyses
• Extract and track common questions, answers and themes from other railroad and NS public interactions with analysts and media
• Assist in Senior Management preparation for earnings calls and analyst meetings, including question and answer development
• Track and analyze NS and other peers’ market values and shareholder base
• Other duties as assigned. 

 

Qualifications & Skills

Education/Certifications:

• Minimum Level: Bachelor’s Degree
• Preferred Major: Accounting, Finance, Business

 

Experience

• Minimum Level: 2+ years

 

Technical Skills:

• Experience with Microsoft Office Systems software
• Proficiency with Bloomberg/Factset
• Financial Statement Literacy
• Analytical

 

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Communication Skills
• Planning, organizing, and prioritizing work demands
• Relationship building
• Decision making

 

Work Conditions

Environment                    Hybrid (3 days in Office; Two days Remote)

Job Family                        Individual Contributor

Shift Work                        No

On-Call                              No

Weekend Work                Yes

Travel Required               Minimal (Less than 2 Days per Month)

Company Overview

Since 1827, Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) and its predecessor companies have safely moved the goods and materials that drive the U.S. economy. Today, it operates a customer-centric and operations-driven freight transportation network. Committed to furthering sustainability, Norfolk Southern helps its customers avoid 15 million tons of yearly carbon emissions by shipping via rail. Its dedicated team members deliver more than 7 million carloads annually, from agriculture to consumer goods, and is the largest rail shipper of auto products and metals in North America. Norfolk Southern also has the most extensive intermodal network in the eastern U.S., serving a majority of the country’s population and manufacturing base, with connections to every major container port on the Atlantic coast as well as the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes. Learn more by visiting www.NorfolkSouthern.com.

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