Associate Director
Job Summary
Job Description
Blackpeak is looking for an Associate Director to join their management team. This role involves leading investigative research projects, ensuring successful project delivery, managing client relationships, developing new business, and leading a team of researchers. Key responsibilities include conducting due diligence, business intelligence research, and corporate investigations, compiling high-quality written reports, managing project quality and delivery, handling pricing and invoicing, fostering client relationships, and developing new clients. The role also requires managing and mentoring researchers, associates, and senior associates, supporting recruitment, and collaborating with team members and management.
Must have:
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 4 years industry experience
- Understanding of China/Hong Kong business environment
- Effective communication and presentation skills
- Strong people management skills
- Strong project management skills
- Detailed research and analysis via databases, internet, human sources
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to multi-task and manage deadlines
- Exceptional written/verbal English and Mandarin Chinese fluency
6 skills required
Job Details
The Role
Blackpeak is seeking an Associate Director position to be part of the management team to lead investigative research projects to ensure the successful delivery of projects, manage client relationships, develop new clients, and lead and develop a team of researchers, associates, and senior associates.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead a broad range of investigative research projects of due diligence, business intelligence research, and corporate investigations for our clients.
- Compile high quality written reports and present findings to clients
- Manage overall quality and delivery of work on multiple accounts
- Perform project pricing and invoicing, and ensure projects are priced and invoiced effectively to deliver on profit
- Foster thriving client relationships and develop new clients proactively
- Independently identify prospects and lead business development activities
- Constantly seeking innovative ways to improve services we offer to our clients
- Manage researchers, associates and senior associates on a day-to-day basis, including motivating and mentoring them to achieve individual and team potential
- Provide support in recruitment and development of team member, including conducting interviews, mentoring and training team members
- Collaborate effectively with other team members and management
Required Skills, Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- At least 4 years of industry experience in investigative due diligence, business intelligence research and corporate investigations
- A solid understanding of the business environment in mainland China and Hong Kong, including the key issues affecting investors
- Effective communication and presentation skills – ability to communicate research findings in writing and orally in discussion with clients
- Strong people management skills - ability to manage and direct team of internal researchers and work with external consultants
- Strong people leadership skills, including the ability to inspire and drive the performance of a team
- Strong project management skills and methodical approach to work
- Excellent abilities to carry out detailed research and analysis via proprietary databases, the internet and human sources
- Strong analytical skills, including critical thinking and problem-solving abilities
- The ability to multi-task, prioritize workload, and manage multiple deadlines under pressure
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English and Mandarin Chinese; native or complete fluency in both languages is required
About us
We’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.
• Over 2,000 of the world’s leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world’s central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk.
• Over 800 of the world’s leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world’s financial market infrastructure. ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group with 13,000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe.
Our ever-expanding global footprint, cutting edge products, and over 40,000 customers worldwide provide an unparalleled career experience for those who share our vision. ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business. ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.
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About The Company
We’re visionary innovators who are delivering mission-critical trading and workflow automation software to financial institutions, corporations, central banks, and governments. By combining our passion for automation with a strategic view on the industries we serve, we design solutions that improve decision-making, simplify complex processes, and empower people. Simply put, we help our customers do more, faster and better than before. We believe our investments in research and development are shaping the future of automation and enabling our customers to transform their business. And we embrace the power of community, working with each other and with our customers to succeed through a positive culture of continuous improvement.
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