Research Analyst, Finance

Research Analyst, Finance
As a Research Analyst, you will be the expert on our audience and emerging trends in the financial services landscape supporting Dotdash Meredith Finance (Investopedia and The Balance). You will work closely with the Research Director to support our key lines of business, which include Sales, Marketing, Editorial, and Product Development. You will have full support from your Research colleagues across all verticals as well as our data science, data operations, and data engineering teams. You will have direct access to terabytes of data stretching back to the beginning of the internet. You'll be using this data, coupled with personal financial market data, to directly inform strategy for our Finance brands.
About Your Contributions:

• Become the audience expert for Investopedia and The Balance - you'll be required to go deep into the data, understand our site and audience better than anyone, and be the market expert on all things financial services
• Support the Sales team by identifying and communicating insights that inspire and shape potential partnerships with advertisers
• Support Planning & Account Management in developing/updating media campaign targeting and reporting on media campaign effectiveness
• Advise Marketing, Editorial, Account Management, Planning and Sales teams on brand management, audience expansion and sales initiatives

About You:

• 2+ years of research and analytics experience in the digital and/or media landscape
• The ideal candidate has the following qualities: solid problem-solving and communication skills, ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects, working knowledge of data analysis, comfort with ambiguity and an inquisitive nature
• General familiarity with and interest in financial topics, with strong desire to increase your understanding of the financial services sector
• Expertise in working with large data sets to synthesize information and draw out key insights
• Excellent storytelling skills that translate insights from multiple data sources into compelling and actionable recommendations
• Experience presenting to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfortability with Excel is a must, familiarity with comScore, Google Analytics, Python or R is a plus
• College degree required