Investigative Researcher

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom ION Full time
Job Role: We are recruiting a Senior Associate to join our London-based team. Our Senior Associates play a key 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.

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.

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