Associate - Transactions

About Sigma7

Sigma7 is a dynamic new global risk information and services platform designed to enhance value by helping organizations dramatically improve the way they assess, mitigate, respond to, and recover from risk. In today’s environment of complex and interrelated risk, with emerging geopolitical, economic, environmental, and technological threats our comprehensive and technology-enabled services provide best in class capabilities, contextualizes and prioritizes threats, and measures success by providing tangible business outcomes.

With a client base including over 400 of the world’s most prominent organizations, over 300 employees worldwide, and six unique industry-leading brands, Sigma7 is reshaping the risk and resilience services industry. We support both commercial and NGO companies, as well as governmental and educational agencies in more than 75 countries. We have assembled a world-class leadership team of risk and security executives and technologists who lead colleagues throughout the US, the UK and in nine countries on five continents. Sigma7 brands include:

Sigma7/ ALACO Business Intelligence

Sigma7/ Paragon Risk Engineering

Sigma7/ Intelligence Fusion

Sigma7/ RWH Myers Forensic Accounting

Sigma7/ RSM Resilience and Training

S7 University

About Alaco

Alaco is a leading business intelligence firm. We help clients manage risk, resolve disputes and protect their reputations through the provision and analysis of information. We work globally, on one-off assignments and ongoing programmes for a wide variety of organisations, including financial institutions, multinationals, law firms, development institutions and family offices.

Job Summary

Alaco is seeking case managers at the associate level to join its Transactions team. The role is suitable for an investigator or professional from a related field with experience managing investigative assignments and communicating the results.

Alaco’s Transactions Practice supports a varied range of clients ahead of new business relationships, deals or entry into new markets; and also in their periodic review of existing relationships. Subjects might include an acquisition target for a private equity firm, a high net worth client for a private bank, a foreign distributor for a corporation, or an infrastructure project for a development finance institution. Work spans all industry sectors and all jurisdictions globally. The Transactions Practice has been ranked consistently in the top tier, Band 1, for its investigative due diligence work by Chambers & Partners, the industry benchmark.

As an associate at Alaco, you will be at the heart of project delivery. Depending on your level of experience, you will work under the guidance of more senior staff or independently on all aspects of casework, from setting budgets and writing proposals at the outset, to delivery of the final product. You will supervise the activities of analysts working on your projects, providing guidance and assistance as necessary, and you may also conduct some research directly.You will shape strategy for a project, curating an effective mix of external human sources, determining the key elements of research emphasis, and taking responsibility for presenting the findings, both in the written report and orally when required.

Outside of case work, you will support marketing and business development through content generation, attendance at industry events, and ad-hoc research projects.

Duties/ Responsibilities

• Review client briefs and create bespoke research plans in response, with support from senior colleagues.
• Identify and analyse information from public records and human sources in jurisdictions worldwide, both independently and in conjunction with junior analysts.
• Prepare comprehensive and nuanced written reports on findings, and present these orally to clients as required.
• Supervise the work of junior research analysts on individual assignments.
• Curate, brief and liaise with external human sources.
• Draft project proposals and budgets.
• Assist in business development, e.g. by attending events and conferences, creating media and social media content.

Skills and Experience

• A minimum of 4 years’ experience in business intelligence or a complementary field such as journalism, government or law.
• Track record of creative and analytical approach to research. Experience working with information from human sources preferred.
• Excellent English-language communication skills, both written and oral. Ability to explain complex events and concepts in clear and concise terms.
• Strong planning and prioritisation skills.
• Undergraduate degree.
• Second language skills are advantageous; we are particularly interested in hearing from Russian, Chinese or German speakers currently.