Total 3 research associate job vacancies in Singapore

Control Risks is seeking an Associate Director to play a key role in growing the crisis and security consulting practice across Southeast Asia (SEA). This position will focus on developing deep and profitable client relationships, driving the growth of the crisis and security consulting practice in SEA, and ensuring quality service delivery across our range of consulting engagements, including crisis management, crisis response, business continuity, and security risk management issues.

Building and maintaining successful relationships with existing Control Risks clients will be important for this role and identifying and pursuing new clients and business development opportunities to expand the crisis management, business continuity and security risk management opportunities in the region is crucial.

Role tasks and responsibilities:

• Cultivate, grow and deepen Control Risks’ relationships with security and risk buyers in our Client organisations, being seen as their “go to” person within Control Risks.
• Identify, nurture and help win new business development opportunities.
• Actively lead on business continuity and crisis management projects from first client enquiry to proposal development, task servicing, quality assurance and project closure
• Project manage and, utilising a regional team of consultants and experts, deliver the full range of security consulting and services engagements in Southeast Asia and across Asia broadly, when required.
• Deliver consultancy services to clients by developing innovative solutions to complex risks. You will be responsible for scoping and delivering across a broad range of business risk activities, including crisis management and business continuity workshops, audits, gap analyses and risk assessments
• Provide mentorship to junior staff, maximising use of resources. Ensure continuous skills transfer, coaching and planning is provided.
• Work collaboratively with country management, marketing teams and other practises to develop a consistent, credible and highly visible brand.
• Represent Control Risks as a thought leader through market engagement via channels such as social media, professional organizations and industry events.
• Seek innovative ways to improve services we offer to clients.
• Ensure that practices, polices, strategy and services represent the client best interest.

Essential:

• Experience in a corporate/consulting environment working with multinational companies in Singapore specifically, and across SEA generally
• Strong commercial expertise, analytical (financial management, legal and contractual skills), leadership
• Ability to build relationships with senior-level clients and other consultants globally
• Experience in a multi-cultural environment and demonstrated cross-cultural awareness
• In depth knowledge of commercial/operational conditions across South Asia

Preferred:

• Experience in one or more of the following: business continuity, crisis management, risk assessment following recognized international standards, security planning and framework development
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience managing crises and/or complex problems
• Demonstrable experience in applying risk management methodology such as (ISO 22301, ISO31000, SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)

Qualifications and specialist skills:

• Educated Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Strong commercial expertise, analytical (financial management, legal and contractual skills), leadership
• Good client (internal and external) management and consulting skills
• Effective decision making and judgement
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Assertiveness and drive with strong influencing skills
• Strong interpersonal skills-building trust and rapport
• Excellent communication skills – written and oral (informal and presentation)
• IT literacy – MS office packages, advanced Excel
• Strong management and communication skills (including concise and accurate written skills)
• Project management skills

• Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarised in the full job offer.
• We operate a discretionary global bonus scheme that incentivises, and rewards individuals based on company and individual performance.
• Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasise the value of in-person time together - in the office and with our clients - while continuing to support flexible and remote working.
• As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us and are fully committed to equal treatment, free from discrimination, of all candidates throughout our recruitment process.

We are looking to hire an Associate Consultant to enhance our leading market position and provide innovative solutions to unique challenges faced by the clients in the market. In this role, the Associate Consultant will provide investigative and professional advisory services by conducting standard public records research and human source enquiries for clients investing and operating in the South-East Asia region.

Role tasks & Responsibilities:

Case work

• Conduct thorough OSINT and public record research and overt enquiries in both English and Indonesian languages

• Process and evaluate human source intelligence gathered throughout the project lifecycle
• Work closely with project leaders and editors to support the production of high-quality, client-ready intelligence reports
• Liaise with Control Risks’ network of market intelligence providers and identify new providers and sources of intelligence
• Meet agreed deadlines.
• Work on multiple projects at any one time and manage own workload efficiently
• Contribute to the growth of Control Risks’ network of market intelligence providers and identify new providers and sources of intelligence
• Fulfil administrative requirements such as completing weekly timesheets.

Clients and marketing

• Support the production of client-ready proposals
• Attend client calls/meetings and conduct in-country research trips when workload allows
• Conduct research and prepare material (e.g. client or sector briefs) to support marketing initiatives
• Curate information on companies and individuals from past reports to expand the knowledge base of the practice

Essential

• At least two years’ experience in a related industry, such as but not limited to: financial services, journalism, legal, professional services consulting, government/government affairs, policy, academia
• Has a keen interest in and strong understanding of political and business trends across South-East Asia, including in Indonesia
• Excellent research and writing skills. Ability to summarise, process and communicate information clearly
• Ability to think critically and unravel complex information with an investigative mindset
• Written and spoken fluency in English and Indonesian
• Has a good understanding of commercial transactions and investigations
• Strong working knowledge of Word and PowerPoint.

Preferred

• Ability to read and analyse financial data, including balance sheets
• Advanced OSINT skills
• Familiar with research databases typically used in a due diligence project or investigation

This role focuses mainly on project billings and posting of subcontractors’ & consultants expenses for a few business service lines on a day to day basis. Month end intercompany settlement process also forms part of this job scope.

Accounts Receivable

Accounts Receivable responsibility begins from the moment a project is set up until the debt is collected. Tasks include but are not limited to

• Check that projects are correctly set up in the system
• Complete vendor set up forms as and when required by our clients
• Generate work-in-progress/timesheet reports to support invoicing requirements
• Raise invoices to clients in an accurate and prompt manner
• Submit clients’ invoices on online portals eg Ariba, Coupa etc
• Ensure all relevant project costs are posted or accrued for
• Follow up with clients to ensure debts are paid within the credit terms
• Post the receipts from clients into the system

Other Tasks

• Work closely with the Regional Finance team for forecasting and accruals of income.
• Check and post of employees’ expenses in the system
• Check and post project vendors’ invoices (including interco invoices) in the system. For new vendors, check that the vendors have completed their screening process.
• Compute and post accrued income for month end close.
• Generate open intercompany invoices and take charge of the Intercompany settlement process with the London office.
• Ensure month end close is completed on a timely and accurate basis
• Prepare and generate management reports after the month end close or as needed
• Assist with the internal and external auditing process
• Provide ad-hoc support for project related tasks, forecasting, budgeting, government surveys as needed

• Diploma, bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Accountancy or a related field
• Ability to plan, organise and operate with strong attention to detail and data accuracy
• Strong discipline to effectively manage time and resources to meet deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to liaise with all levels of internal and external stakeholders
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft D365 Finance & Operations preferred but not necessary. Good to possess knowledge of other ERP systems.