RESEARCH ASSISTANT

At SMITH ZANDER, we pride ourselves in our core values: we focus on premium quality work; we understand our clients well; and we practice an open, respectful culture.

As a performance-based employer, we place a strong emphasis on recognising and rewarding achievements and results. We empower our employees by fostering an environment that encourages independent thinking, ownership of responsibilities, and strategic decision-making.

We are committed to developing, nurturing and retaining our best talents as we aspire to strengthen our position as the leading player in our specialised, niche industry. You will be supported by high performing and dynamic team members who embrace strong team work and team communication. On top of our growth development library, on-the-job trainings and project/task-based feedback, we conduct structured workshop and trainings at least twice a year to equip you with the necessary knowledge, tools, and tricks to excel in your role.

We offer a range of attractive benefits to ensure our team is taken care of. Our monetary benefits include transport allowance, mobile allowance, wellness allowance, dental and eye care, and medical benefits. On top of annual, medical, maternity, paternity and compassionate leaves, we offer additional leaves for festive celebration and birthday. We invest in quality team bonding time through team outings, travels and team building activities.

If you are interested in doing challenging analytical work in a fast-paced corporate environment, yet be immersed in an easy-going and fun office culture with young, dynamic colleagues, we would love to hear from you.

This is a full-time position.

We are looking for driven individuals with the following critical capabilities to join our team:

• Detailed-oriented and meticulous
• Strong in articulating your thoughts and ideas
• Excellent in narrative report-writing in English
• Resourceful and persistent in data gathering
• Able to structure and solve analytical problems
• Comfortable in qualitative and quantitative analysis
• Versatile in adapting to multi-country, multi-industry projects and have strong business acumen
• Able to multi-task effectively and work within tight deadlines
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in any discipline

The key responsibilities for this role are:

• Provide support to the team by completing tasks that require attention to detail, accuracy and resourcefulness.
• Gather, clean, collate and tabulate data systematically and accurately with proper references to sources
• Conduct primary and secondary research in various industries
• Assist in writing detailed, concise and professional research reports and business plans, with compelling visualisation
• Facilitate meaningful data analysis (qualitative and quantitative)
• Maintain ownership on assigned tasks
• Update and maintain database of research findings

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