Research Editor, State Owned Companies

**About Dow Jones Risk & Compliance**

Dow Jones Risk & Compliance provides third party risk management and regulatory compliance solutions. Working with clients across the globe, we have created products and services to help companies evaluate third party risks quickly and with confidence.

We deliver research tools and services for on-boarding, vetting and investigation to help companies comply with anti-money laundering, anti-corruption and economic sanctions regulations in mitigating third party risk. With a global team of expert researchers, flexible delivery options and enriched third party risk data, our suite of compliance solutions empower compliance professionals to quickly and efficiently reduce risks while conserving limited resources.

**The Role**

The role of the Research Editor, State Owned Companies, is to research, record and update details on companies owned or controlled by governments around the world. These details are required for the Dow Jones State Owned Companies (SOC) database which forms part of the Dow Jones Risk & Compliance business. The role of the Research Editor is also to keep the SOC Database up to date by continual scanning and extraction from known information sources and by the ongoing monitoring of new sources.

**Responsibilities**
- Use a range of relevant electronic published sources for each country he/she is researching, including government websites, sources carried on Dow Jones’s own products and government/regulatory and company websites.
- Extract data from the above mentioned sources, and adhere to a set of guidelines on SOC selection and the level of corporate details required.
- Deliver the most comprehensive coverage possible of state owned companies while taking care to exclude detail outside the brief.
- Verify the accuracy of the material he/she and other team members are adding to the database and follow an established set of procedures to do so.
- Keep the SOC Database up to date through continual review in accordance with team goals.
- Respond quickly, accurately and thoroughly to customer queries.

**Skills and Experience**
- Fluency in English, Arabic and Bahasa is essential, other languages are an advantage
- Research and/or editorial knowledge
- Ability to identify wholly with Dow Jones’s service obligations to its Clients
- Excellent research & analytical skills. Ability to use online tools to extract key information.
- Web searching skills; tenacity and ingenuity in the pursuit of sources
- Education to Bachelor’s degree level
- Excellent proofreading skills and organizational skills
- Keyboard skills and familiarity with Google Docs and Microsoft Office, especially Sheets and Excel
- Ability to handle large volumes of information
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to accept feedback as a learning opportunity
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships
- Positive outlook on change, self motivated, flexible and adaptable
- Advanced Excel and other technical abilities are an advantage.

Business Area: Dow Jones - Experience - Data & AI

Job Category: Data Analytics/Warehousing & Business Intelligence

Union Status:
Non-Union role

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.

Req ID: 40954