COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.
Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide research assistance for the tier 2 research project.
- Compile and clean data from various sources, construct empirical measures.
- Data analysis and statistical analysis of the research studies.
- Compile information and write research reports.
- Assist to prepare manuscripts for publication in targeted journals.
- Any other research-related work assigned.
- PhD or Master's degree in Social Sciences, Economics, Business, or related fields (with substantial computing/programming training).
- Prior research experience in Accounting/Finance/Economics/Statistics is a plus.
- Require experience with experiments and data and textual analysis.
- Excellent oral, interpersonal and written communication skills.
- Competency in the use of statistics in research.
- Knowledge of computer science foundations and fundamental / information studies.
- Knowledge in accounting, in particular, the ability to understand financial reports.
- Experience/training in accounting, finance, business, or economics research; able to collect data from various resources.
- Ability in using and/or programming using statistical software (e.g. SAS, Stata, Python).
- Ability to handle a high volume of quantitative work, with attention to details.
