Researcher – Financial Services, Fluent Thai
Control Risks
Open Source
Researcher, Financial Services, Bahasa Speaker
Control Risks
full-time
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Origin: • 🇲🇾 Malaysia
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Open Source
About the role
- Produce high quality enhanced due diligence (EDD) and research reports for financial services clients in the Asia Pacific region
- Conduct in-depth public records research (media articles, corporate records, litigation and regulatory filings, social media, compliance databases)
- Engage in discreet interviews to gather information on companies and individuals and develop intelligence on specific topics and industries
- Support major banking transactions such as IPOs and debt issuance with enhanced due diligence reports
- Project-manage enhanced due diligence assignments, including scoping research, drafting summaries and findings, and meeting deadlines
- Communicate with clients (primarily compliance or internal control departments) to clarify scope, address questions, and suggest additional avenues of research
- Assist line manager in training, managing internal and external research resources and subcontractors
- Liaise with vendors and subcontractors to ensure work quality and adherence to global delivery standards
- Engage with colleagues across Control Risks to address client queries and participate in regional research initiatives
- Interact with researchers, supervisors, managers, and Quality Assurance to provide support and feedback and discuss service/product improvements
Requirements
- Education to degree level (minimum of a bachelor’s or equivalent experience)
- Full fluency in written and spoken Bahasa and English is essential
- Experience in writing, researching and reviewing/editing research reports; demonstrated excellence in research, writing and editing in Bahasa and English
- Strong knowledge of open source research techniques
- Good communication skills; ability to think on one’s feet and engage with individuals of different levels of seniority and from different backgrounds, to obtain information
- Ability to think critically and solve problems
- Strong knowledge of the socio-political environment in South-East Asia
- Proven ability to meet project deadlines and perform well under pressure
- Preferred: Experience executing and managing enhanced due diligence projects for financial institution clients
- Preferred: Experience engaging with international clients, preparing written proposals, providing verbal updates, and answering follow up questions and queries
- Preferred: Fluency in an additional language
