Research Analyst
Summary
Research Analyst in New York or Washington D.C. monitors sanctions, enforcement actions, and policy changes to curate and maintain datasets for risk analysis, using SQL, data visualization, and graph databases.
- Monitoring new sanctions, enforcement actions, and policy activity by regulatory agencies for developments relevant to Kharon’s products.
- Driving the curation, publication, maintenance, and quality assurance of datasets.
- Performing data validation and reconciliation to support new products and partnership initiatives.
- Conducting research on issues in international affairs that impact business risks and identifying relevant data sources.
- Accurately perform detailed quality assurance of data and developing additional tooling to support these tasks as necessary
- Writes original code to assist in automating data analysis, cleanup, and enhancements.
- Must have a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Business Administration, International Relations, Political Science, Security Studies, Regional Studies, History, Sociology, or a related field.
- Must have at least 1-3 years of professional experience with sanctions, export controls, anti-money laundering or countering the financing of terrorism, and experience researching issues of international security and economy in high-risk jurisdictions.
- Experience with or willingness to learn SQL.
- Experience with data analysis, data visualization, and graph databases (Neo4J).
- Understanding of or willingness to learn web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XPath, JSON, etc).
The core of this position is dedicated to conducting open-source research on a variety of foreign affairs and national security issues. More specifically, you will be researching, analyzing, and interpreting data as it relates to sanctions, export controls, and criminal/illicit networks. You will be responsible for the diligent pursuit of data as it relates to ever-evolving market demand and our client inquiries. Working collaboratively with the Kharon Research team, you will contribute to the development of new datasets and update existing ones, identifying and utilizing new sources and developing subject matter expertise on the various strategic topics. This includes monitoring new sanctions, enforcement actions, and policy activity by regulatory agencies, as well as conducting research on international affairs that affect business risks. Leveraging your sound analytical approach and research techniques, you will identify data typologies, perform detailed quality assurance, validate and reconcile data, and support new product and partnership initiatives. You’ll also play a key role in curating, publishing, and maintaining datasets, and may write original code to collect primary data across various languages. Cross-functional collaboration is essential as you help build out new research, surface insights from existing content, and report key project metrics to internal stakeholders.
- Fully sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurances
- FSA program for both medical and dependent care
- Long term disability
- 401k + Roth with matching and immediate vesting
- Flexible paid time off + 11 paid holidays