Thursday, May 5, 2016

Research Analyst Position with the Camstoll Group for May or Recent Grad

The Camstoll Group is a sanctions and illicit finance research and advisory firm with decades of combined government and private sector experience combating the world’s most complex national security and financial crime challenges.

Utilizing proprietary open-source research methods, network analysis, and data analytics, we generate insights into today’s most complex policy, regulatory or competitive challenges. In particular, we are experts in assessing and analyzing markets impacted by regulatory risk, sanctioned actors, political upheaval, violent conflict, and corruption. Our clients are financial institutions, multinational corporations, and governments.

We are seeking research analysts with one to five years of experience to join our research staff in our Washington, DC or Los Angeles offices.

Requirements: 

The successful candidate will be intelligent, accomplished, and energetic as demonstrated by his or her academic and extra-curricular credentials. The analyst position requires creative and proactive critical thinking skills, an insatiable appetite for foreign affairs and international policy, experience finding and researching online and offline information resources, comfort synthesizing large amounts of information, as well as strong written and oral communication skills.

Candidates with professional proficiency in strategic languages including Arabic, Spanish, French, Russian, Farsi, Urdu, Japanese, and Korean may be preferred for some positions. Candidates who do not have a foreign language proficiency will be carefully considered for other positions.

Individuals with experience in business intelligence research, conflict and illicit finance analysis, banking sector risk management and compliance, and other national security-related matters may wish to apply.

Candidates with a graduate degree and work experience will be given preference, although other candidates are encouraged to apply. This opportunity will be available on an ongoing basis until positions are filled.

Submissions:

Interested candidates should submit a resume, cover letter, and research-based writing sample between 3 and 10 pages long. No policy memos please.

Package:

Competitive salary, health insurance, and retirement benefits will be available to selected candidates.