About Smartkarma
Smartkarma is a global investment network based in Singapore, that brings together independent Insight Providers, institutional investors, and corporate investor relations professionals and management. Smartkarma reinvents Equity and Credit Research by providing differentiated, independent analysis on companies, markets, and industries across the world. This includes areas under-reported by mainstream market coverage, including Event-Driven, IPOs & placements, and small/mid-cap equities.
Smartkarma’s online platform enables corporate and buy-side clients to streamline their communication and data reporting, and allows them to set their own real-time alerts, customise their reading lists, directly contact Insight Providers, and remain MiFID II-compliant as unbundling regulations change the investment research industry.
Smartkarma Insight Providers have been featured in Reuters, Bloomberg, Nikkei, the Financial Times, and a number of influential business publications.
Job Overview
You will be a valued member of a wider award-winning senior team, contributing strategy and solutions and play a crucial role in the growth of the consultancy through your contribution to our new business process, helping to identify prospective opportunities, representing the firm and managing the development and delivery of pitches to C-Suites. In client work, you will play an increasing role on large and complex accounts and financial know-how is a pre-requisite for the role.
As a lead in the Financial Communications Practice, you thrive in the intersection of words, numbers and capital markets, possessing an acumen for developing market-moving narratives, engaging with the investment community with ease and exerting a certain level of influence such that you will be well-positioned to work on trailblazing transactions. You will be integral to the development and management of your clients’ overall strategy, providing strong strategic counsel to generate excellent results for clients and establish long term and proactive relationships with your clients, who will trust your responsiveness, the quality of your counsel and your financial communications expertise.
Leadership qualities you possess will mean that you are able to drive and motivate the team under your charge. Your role will involve managing colleagues in the account teams, mentoring their development and being a source of constructive feedback, ideas and experience.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
Client Servicing
- Proactive client servicing with a can-do attitude
- Leads accounts and is a source of constructive feedback, ideas and experience
- Builds and maintains strong client relationships
- Provides counsel to clients that aligns with their business objectives
- Acts as the gatekeeper of quality when delivering client work
- Identifies challenges before they become issues and works toward a timely resolution of the same
- Day-to-day responsibility of managing work streams on client accounts
Strategic Counsel/Planning/Execution
- Strong investment stakeholder relationships in Singapore and the region
- Excellent news sense and insightful analysis with a firm understanding of relevant stakeholder/media/analyst landscapes and mapping
- Designs and delivers strong pitches/stakeholder position papers and looks ahead to ensure proactivity on client accounts
- Entrepreneurial
Requirements
- Minimum 6 - 8 years in communications or a financial related industry. A corporate or financial communications background is a prerequisite.
- Degree in Economics, Business, Financial Journalism
- A strong writer with excellent research, writing, editing, presentation and client interaction skills
- Proven experience in producing first-rate communications and editorial content for multi-media platforms including digital, live streaming and ecommerce platforms, social media and traditional media
- Strong client relations, strategic mindset, a problem solver, solution-finder and ability to think outside the box
- Works independently, ability to adapt quickly and highly organised.
- Entrepreneurial in spirit, self-motivated and creative with a high attention to detail
