Senior Counterparty Risk Analyst - Middle East & India

For nearly 300 years, Lloyd's List Intelligence has been a cornerstone of maritime trade and intelligence. We combine human ingenuity with cutting-edge technology to empower maritime professionals with accurate, timely, and actionable insights. Our mission is to drive the efficient and lawful movement of seaborne trade worldwide. We have a wide range of customers across the shipping, finance, and insurance (to name a few), as well as in the legal sector and in academia.

As a Senior Counter party Risk Analyst
, you will carry out targeted research and deliver impartial, high-quality counter party risk assessments for customers in the maritime industry. You will play a key role in enhancing our counter party risk report database with actionable insight, and support customer engagement as a subject matter expert. You will also be supporting and mentoring junior analysts and providing peer reviews and feedback on colleagues’ reports on a daily basis.

This role involves in-depth qualitative and quantitative research/analysis, with a high degree of stakeholder interaction, and offers the opportunity to contribute to the evolution of our editorial content into data-driven formats.

This is a full-time role reporting to the Counter party Risk Lead Analyst
in charge of the Indian Subcontinent & Middle East desk.

• Conduct in-depth online research on registered corporate entities utilising various sources including corporate registries, industry databases, and trade press, to uncover ownership structures and financial standing to evaluate company risk profiles.
• Plan and conduct interviews with the management/representatives of subject entities and well-placed reliable and insightful market sources to gather qualitative insights.
• Utilise proprietary and third-party tools and own critical reasoning to determine and assign in-house counter party risk ratings and credit recommendation aligned with business exposure contexts.
• Produce clear, structured reports covering subject entity ownership, operations, financials, market and risk assessments that support customer decision-making on near-term business transactions, delivered to agreed deadlines and output objectives.
• Maintain high-quality output aligned to our data quality and editorial standards.
• Build a network of well-placed, insightful market contacts, fostering a trust-based relationship around shared critical insight, supporting product integrity and brand value.
• Maintain regular contact with customers to maintain knowledge and a proactive approach to support due diligence needs.
• Act as a regional and sectoral subject matter expert, supporting customer calls and networking events.

• Critical thinking and analytical skills, and a passion for company and financial due diligence.
• A proven, successful track record in commercial shipping or in the field of research and analysis as an experienced analyst with a specialisation in either maritime trade or operations, company due diligence, corporate investigations, financial analysis, or directly relevant industry roles.
• An established network of contacts in the maritime industry.
• Highly articulate, with excellent written and verbal communication, as well as interviewing skills.
• Excellent “business English” writing skills, and the ability to create clear, succinct long-form reports requiring little or no editing.
• An inquisitive, and analytical mindset, combined with critical reasoning.
• A highly methodical, thorough and detail-focussed work ethic.
• A strong understanding of financial statements/the ability to evaluate the financial health of a subject entity by reviewing its accounts.
• Advanced OSINT research capabilities.
• Strong stakeholder management and time management skills.
• Proven experience in either business intelligence, consultancy and due diligence, market research, maritime trade and operations or journalism is desirable.
• Fluency in Arabic or in at least one other language relevant to commercial shipping and to the requirements of the UK-based team, such as Danish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, or Turkish.
• Understanding…