Senior Associate - Blackpeak
Job Summary
Job Description
Blackpeak seeks a Senior Associate with 3-4 years of experience in due diligence and business intelligence reporting. Strong analytical skills, report writing, and fluency in English & another European/Middle Eastern language are essential. Experience managing cases and proficiency in investigative research are desirable.
Must have:
- Due Diligence
- Business Intelligence
- Report Writing
- English Fluency
Good to have:
- Case Management
- Investigative Research
- Proprietary Databases
- Corporate Records
Perks:
- Global Footprint
- Career Experience
7 skills required
Job Details
The Role:
Blackpeak is expanding its EMEA practice and is recruiting a Senior Associate to join its London-based team. Our Senior Associates play an important role in supporting our clients’ due diligence and business intelligence needs through full-cycle case management, outstanding research as well as coaching other researchers and quality controlling their work. We are looking for candidates with relevant industry experience who want to be part of our high quality and diverse team. This is a client-facing role. Our clients include leading investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, asset management companies, corporates and law firms.
Established in 2011, Blackpeak is dedicated to uncovering critical risks for our clients worldwide. As industry leaders, we specialize in providing discreet and comprehensive due diligence services, research, and screening adept at identifying and mitigating undisclosed risks. Trusted by corporations, banks, legal and compliance professionals, as well as investors including private fund managers/GPs and institutional investors/LPs, we guide our clients through the complexities of due diligence, transforming financial uncertainties into strategic advantages.
Blackpeak operates as a service of ION Analytics, solidifying our commitment to excellence and integrity in uncovering critical risks for our clients.
Key Responsibilities:
- Case management: manage a broad range of investigative research assignments, working with the client from the request to the delivery stage.
- Research and report writing: research for and prepare client-ready reports, analysing your own and other researchers’ findings and human source enquiries to provide clients with clear conclusions and actionable intelligence.
- Quality control and coaching: edit and quality control reports written by other researchers, including coaching them in conducting research.
- Proposal writing: preparing competitive proposals in response to client RFPs
Required Skills, Experience and Qualifications:
- 3-4 years of relevant industry experience preparing due diligence and business intelligence reports.
- Fluency in written and spoken English is essential; proficiency in at least one other European or Middle Eastern language is required. Arabic, French, and Russian are of particular interest.
- Proficiency in investigative research and analysis of public domain sources, including familiarity with proprietary databases, media archives, corporate and court records research.
- Ability to convert research findings (own and other researchers’) into a client-ready report.
- Experience in managing cases from the proposal stage to delivery, including an understanding of how to manage resources and costs is desirable.
- Strong analytical skills, including critical thinking and problem solving, as well as curiosity and attention to detail.
- Good time keeping and ability to prioritise workload and multi-task.
- Effective communication and presentation skills – ability to communicate research findings in writing and orally in discussion with clients.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- A good grasp of concepts such as sanctions, political exposure, financial crime, fraud, corruption, money-laundering, tax evasion, and ESG.
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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