Senior Investigative Researcher

1 month ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom ION Group Full time
Senior Associate - EMEA Practice

Blackpeak is expanding its EMEA practice and is recruiting a Senior Associate to join its London-based team. Our Senior Associates play a crucial role in supporting our clients' due diligence and business intelligence needs through full-cycle case management, outstanding research, and 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, and 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.

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, analyzing 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 prioritize 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.

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