Investor Relations Specialist - Public

Mercor; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor in Sydney, Australia is seeking an experienced Investor Relations professional to join our in-house team. You will own the earnings cycle, draft releases and remarks, prepare Q&A briefs, and engage with analysts as part of quarterly results.

You will produce guidance on scenarios, develop investor materials, and analyze ownership to inform dividend and capital return recommendations. Public-company IR experience is essential.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in an in-house investor relations role at a public company.
• Direct ownership of an earnings cycle: release, script, Q&A, analyst engagement.
• Nice to have IRC charter (NIRI); sell-side equity research before moving in-house; investor relations agency experience.

Responsibilities

• Draft earnings releases, prepared remarks and Q&A briefings for quarterly results.
• Produce guidance-setting and revision recommendations with scenario support.
• Build investor day and IR presentation materials, equity story and positioning decks, AGM materials, and deal packages.
• Analyze shareholder register and ownership base; assess activist vulnerability; draft dividend and capital return recommendations.

Skills

IR experience

earnings cycle ownership

analyst engagement

Job description

About the work

We're building a high-quality library of public-company investor relations work products. You'll complete self-contained IR exercises from mock files (results packs, shareholder registers, analyst models) and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric.

What you'll do

• Draft earnings releases, prepared remarks and Q&A briefings for a quarterly results call.


• Produce guidance-setting and revision recommendations with scenario support.


• Build investor day and IR presentation materials, equity story and positioning decks, AGM materials, and deal announcement packages.


• Analyze the shareholder register and ownership base, assess activist vulnerability, and draft dividend and capital return recommendations.

You're a fit if you have

• 4+ years in an in-house investor relations role at a public company.


• Direct ownership of an earnings cycle: release, script, Q&A, analyst engagement.

Nice to have

• IRC charter (NIRI); sell-side equity research before moving in-house; investor relations agency experience.

Assessment

An earnings release and prepared remarks from a mock results pack; a guidance revision recommendation; an activist vulnerability assessment.

Note:

this is public-company investor relations. Investor relations at a private equity or venture fund is LP fundraising and is a different role.