Senior Analyst

Company Description

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**Job Description**:
**Company**

Verisk Maplecroft’s data-driven solutions enable multinational companies to identify and manage the key political, human rights, economic and environmental risks impacting their operations, supply chains and investments.

As part of the Verisk Analytics family, we are aligned with the world’s leading data analytics organisation. Together, we aim to give our clients the insight they need to make better, data-driven decisions through unrivalled analysis and advice.

**Team Profile**

Verisk Maplecroft’s Asia Global Risk Insight team is responsible for developing the company’s qualitative analysis and forecasts relating to political, regulatory, security, economic and social risks in the region. The team works closely with Verisk Maplecroft’s analytics, environment and climate change, consulting, and financial markets teams to deliver a range of analytical products and services aimed at multinational companies and financial investors.

Verisk Maplecroft has been providing clients with quantitative and qualitative analysis in the political, economic, social, and environmental spheres since 2001. The Risk Insights team contributes to the development and production of our unrivalled risk exposure datasets, covering 150+ issues and 198 countries globally. The team combines these quantitative tools with unrivalled country expertise to deliver unique commercial insights to our clients.

As a trusted advisor to clients, Verisk Maplecroft also provides bespoke solutions to companies, institutional investors, governments, and international organisations in a variety of sectors, including energy, metals & mining, financial services, and consumer goods. As a key member of our Asia Risk Insights research team, you will be involved in ad hoc, research-based consulting projects alongside other responsibilities.

**Role Purpose**

The team is looking to hire a research associate/analyst with an in-depth understanding of Asia's political and ESG risk landscape and how it may impact the business environment. The analyst will take the lead in generating high-quality, forward-looking analysis of the region’s political, regulatory, economic, security and human rights developments. The analyst will also work closely with the wider Asia team on cross-cutting regional issues.

**Main Responsibilities**
- Produce sophisticated and data-driven analysis of commercially relevant political, regulatory, security, economic and social issues across the Asia Pacific region with a focus on Southeast Asia.
- Act as a source of insight for Verisk Maplecroft’s clients via analyst calls and ad hoc presentations.
- Ensure that our analytical content remains best-in-class and, where relevant, client-focused and/or sector-specific.
- Promptly respond to client requests for research or analytical support around political, regulatory, operational or security risk issues.
- Contribute to ad hoc, research-based consulting projects that include an Asia component.
- Contributes to updating and reviewing Verisk Maplecroft's qualitative risk indices per our methodologies and procedures.
- Support members of the Verisk Maplecroft sales teams with business development activities as a representative of the Asia Global Risk Insight team.
- Provide innovative ideas and solutions to support improvements in internal processes.

**Qualifications**:
**Knowledge & Experience**
- Master’s degree in political science, economics, international affairs, or another relevant field (with a focus on Southeast Asia).
- Robust quantitative skills, including proficiency with statistical techniques; experience in data visualisation will be an advantage.
- Broad understanding of salient political, social, and regulatory issues and developments within key emerging markets in Southeast Asia, particularly with regards to sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues and geopolitics.
- Keen commercial acumen and the ability to think laterally when dealing with clients.
- An ability to distil complex events to non-expert audiences with a strong focus on the so-what.
- Excellent written and spoken English, particularly in relation to analytical writing.
- Competency in other regional languages is a distinct advantage.
- An appetite to work in a collaborative environment with colleagues in multiple locations across different time zones.
- An ability to thrive in an environment of robust peer review.
- Organisational and planning skills and the ability to work independently.

Additional Information

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

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