Data Operations Research Analyst — Global Risk Intelligence

Kharon; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 68,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

FSA program

401k with match

Paid time off

Holidays

Job summary

Kharon in Washington, DC is seeking a full-time, in-office Research Analyst, Data Operations with working Mandarin proficiency to join our research team.

You will monitor sanctions and export controls, research international security and economic topics, curate datasets, and collaborate across teams to deliver timely insights for clients. This role requires rigorous data QA, multilingual data collection, and a commitment to in-person collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, international relations, political science, or related field.
• Experience with sanctions, export controls, AML or CTF.
• Experience researching international security and economy in high-risk jurisdictions.
• Understanding of securities markets, financial instruments and investment risk.
• Must have Mandarin reading proficiency.
• 2+ years coding in Python.
• 1+ year experience with scraping/data parsing: Selenium, Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, pandas.
• Experience with SQL.
• Experience with data analysis, visualization, and graph databases (Neo4j).
• Understanding of web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XPath, JSON).

Responsibilities

• Monitor sanctions, enforcement actions, and policy activity relevant to Kharon's products.
• Research international affairs that impact business risks and identify data sources.
• Curate, publish, maintain datasets and ensure quality.
• Validate and reconcile data to support new products and partnerships.
• Develop tooling and write code to collect primary data in multiple languages.
• Collaborate across teams to build out new research and develop insights.
• Report project metrics and updates to stakeholders.

Skills

Mandarin reading proficiency

Sanctions & export controls

International security research

Financial markets knowledge

Data analysis

Web technologies familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Python

Selenium

Scrapy

BeautifulSoup

Pandas

SQL

Neo4j

Job description

Kharon in Washington, DC is seeking a full-time, in-office Research Analyst, Data Operations with working Mandarin proficiency to join our research team.

You will monitor sanctions and export controls, research international security and economic topics, curate datasets, and collaborate across teams to deliver timely insights for clients. This role requires rigorous data QA, multilingual data collection, and a commitment to in-person collaboration.