What is the role of an analyst at your firm?
Was curious to see how much variance there is in the role across firms. When I was an analyst, I'd say my split was 50% analytics / 25% PPT / 25% process support. When I say analytics, we were responsible for holding the pen on modeling, all data cuts or analysis, and any type of buyer requests or responses. Associates would really only review analytics work and guide us and focus more on shelling out and directly writing for decks as their main role in the deliverables processes.
At a different firm now and noticed it seems like our analyst's time split is about 25% analytics / 50% PPT / and 25% process support. The analytics is pretty much exclusively spreading financials and basic data cutting and analysis. Associates are expected to handle all modeling and anything intermediate or advanced on the analytics side.
Don't really have a problem with this one way or another but just seems like such a stark contrast to when I did my analyst stint and seems like they're focusing a ton more on building decks than I did and less analytics. How much does the role vary across other firms because I can definitely see pros and cons to both approaches.
