Research Analyst – Corporate Intelligence

Job description

Job description

The Corporate Intelligence team is an expanding part of KPMG Consulting. The team helps clients address a variety of reputational and regulatory risks in different contexts, from market entry to transactional due diligence and supply chain risk management. The team works closely together with other parts of KPMG, including supporting the rest of the KPMG Forensic team on regulatory investigations and the Global Strategy Group on market entry and strategic intelligence work.

The team is made up of specialists with a range of regional and language expertise, and is focused on work in the EMEA region and Latin America. We are seeking research analysts to join the team in our London office. As part of the Corporate Intelligence team, you will be involved in projects in the following three areas:

• Strategic intelligence, such as country risk assessments and market-entry support;
• Transactional due diligence, both bespoke integrity due diligence on partners and acquisition targets and large-scale third-party risk management programmes; and
• Investigative services, including asset tracing and litigation support.

Responsibilities

The research, retrieval and analysis of public record information are the starting point for the majority of corporate intelligence assignments.

The main responsibilities for Research Analysts will include:

• Conducting desktop-based research using a variety of specialist database resources, covering a wide range of corporate, media, credit and regulatory data across many jurisdictions;
• Conducting intuitive and creative research using a variety of other online and offline public record sources, especially commercial registries and corporate databases in a variety of countries and languages;
• Sourcing public record information from manual and offline sources, including using external third parties where necessary;
• Combining the above skills to deliver time-critical and relevant reports to clients, both internal and external;
• Assisting in the preparation of proposals to clients and supporting the marketing efforts of the corporate intelligence team;
• Assisting in the tasking of third party sources;
• Enhancing the team’s network of contacts and understanding of business risks/opportunities in at least one geographical region; and
• Supporting the development of research, thought leadership and other marketing efforts for the corporate intelligence team.

Required Experience and Skills


• Very strong academic qualifications, ideally in politics, international relations, languages or other disciplines in social science;
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and oral;
• Fluency in at least one (ideally two) foreign languages with the ability to conduct research and translate accurately. Preferred languages are Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Italian and Turkish;
• Ability to work under pressure and meet exacting deadlines;
• Ability to cope with multiple conflicting client demands and to manage peaks and troughs of demand to ensure a consistent high quality service;
• Ability to operate in a discreet and confidential manner;
• Some relevant work experience, which might be market research, political risk analysis, online research, or any strong investigative background; and
• Drive and commitment to deliver a high quality service.