Data Operations Research Analyst — Mandarin

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k plan

Job summary

Kharon in Washington DC is seeking a full-time, in-office Research Analyst, Data Operations with Mandarin proficiency to join our team in Washington D.C. The role sits in the Research department and focuses on open-source research about sanctions, export controls, and related national security topics.

You will contribute to data collection, curation, QA, and development of new datasets, collaborating with the Research team to surface insights for clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in a related field.
• Experience with sanctions, export controls, AML or CTF.
• Experience researching international security/economy in high-risk jurisdictions.
• Understanding of securities markets, financial instruments, and investment risk.
• Mandarin reading proficiency required.
• 2+ years coding (Python preferred).
• 1+ year data parsing/scraping experience (Selenium, Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, pandas, etc.).
• Familiarity with SQL; experience with data analysis/visualization and graph databases (Neo4J).
• Web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XPath, JSON) knowledge or willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Monitor new sanctions, enforcement actions, and policy activity for product relevance.
• Research international affairs impacting business risks and identify data sources.
• Curate, publish, maintain, and QA datasets.
• Validate and reconcile data to support new products/partnerships.
• Perform detailed QA and develop tooling as needed.
• Write code to collect primary data in multiple languages.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to build research and insights.
• Report project metrics to stakeholders.

Skills

Mandarin reading

Python

Web scraping

SQL

Data analysis

Data visualization

Neo4J

HTML/JS/CSS/XPath/JSON familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration/International Relations/Political Science/Security Studies/Regional Studies/History/Sociology (or related)

Tools

Selenium

Scrapy

BeautifulSoup

pandas

Job description

Kharon in Washington DC is seeking a full-time, in-office Research Analyst, Data Operations with Mandarin proficiency to join our team in Washington D.C. The role sits in the Research department and focuses on open-source research about sanctions, export controls, and related national security topics.

You will contribute to data collection, curation, QA, and development of new datasets, collaborating with the Research team to surface insights for clients.