Consultant, Business Intelligence

The role offers the opportunity for the right candidate, with a strong professional and/or academic background on South Asia, to combine your twin passions of analysis and writing and begin a varied and rewarding career with Control Risks.

Role tasks & responsibilities:

• Produce high-quality reports, including incorporating human intelligence into reports and producing well-structured analysis in line with client objectives.
• Convey analytical judgment and complex information in a confident, persuasive and accessible manner that helps clients to resolve uncertainty and make decisions.
• Attend client calls and provide updates in a confident and structured manner.
• Understand client requirements and provide well-structured and well-articulated solutions in consultation with senior members of the team.
• Meet agreed deadlines.
• Work on multiple projects at any one time and manage own workload.
• Produce thought leadership to support marketing and the sales process.
• Fulfil administrative requirements such as completing weekly timesheets and other project related administrative work.

Requirements

• At least four years’ combined experience across any two of the following areas: integrity risk consulting, reputational due diligence, government service, journalism, research and analysis background or experience in the private sector.
• Knowledge of operational, corruption and ESG issues that companies face in South Asia.
• Interest in and knowledge of how companies operate and interact with various stakeholders.

• Excellent English language report-writing skills.
• Able to think critically and link findings to client objectives.
• Able to look at an issue from a variety of angles, dissect it, make sense of the unfamiliar and rule out weak points.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Passion for learning about businesses, ESG, corruption, ethics, regulatory and commercial trends.
• Driven to resolve uncertainty and confusion.
• Understands business terminology and the commercial nature of Control Risks’ work.
• Understands clients’ needs.
• Educated to degree level.
• Strong work ethic.
• Able to multi-task.