About Role
Blackpeak is an international investigative research and risk advisory firm. We specialize in investigative due diligence, business intelligence research, political risk analysis, screening, and investigations.
Founded in Asia, the firm now operates from strategic locations in key financial and political centers, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, New York, Washington DC and London.
You would be primarily responsible for ensuring consistent, high-quality English-language research reports as part of the group’s existing editorial team. While this position entails copyediting, you will also work closely with Blackpeak’s researchers throughout the report-writing process to help shape and order research findings. You will be exposed to a broad range of risk-related projects across countries and industries and may be required to manage multiple assignments on a day-to-day basis.
This position is suitable for fresh graduates or candidates with 1–5 years of experience. Blackpeak’s team members have joined the firm with a range of academic and professional experience. Candidates with backgrounds in journalism, English, international relations, political science, history, and economics are especially encouraged to apply
Your skills, experience, and qualifications
- Native or near-native English language ability.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- Extremely strong written and oral communication skills
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize workload, and multi-task under pressure
- Flexibility to work as a part of a multinational team across Blackpeak’s offices worldwide
- The maturity and skills required to assist Blackpeak’s senior management in marketing to clients and to manage client relationships, if needed
- Strong analytical skills, including critical thinking and problem solving abilities
- Editing experience in business and journalism considered a plus
- Relevant experience in risk analysis, consulting and/or qualitative research considered a plus
About US
We’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.
•Over 2,000 of the world’s leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world’s central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk.
•Over 800 of the world’s leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world’s financial market infrastructure.
With over 10,000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe, ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group.
At ION, we offer careers that provide many opportunities: To invent. To design. To collaborate. To build. To transform businesses and empower people around the world to do more, faster and better than before. Imagine what you can do and experience.
This is where you can do your best work.
