Heckyl Technologies - Senior Research Analyst - News Vertical

Heckyl - Sr. News Analyst

About Heckyl: Heckyl is India's leading news and data analytics company with marquee clients like SunGard, Reliance, Kotak, Religare, BNY Mellon, Euronext and Edelweiss to name a few. We provide real-time financial information, news analytics and heat maps of markets, companies and businesses. At Heckyl, we cover millions of news sources from all over the planet for over 60,000 companies and 35000+ non-listed entities in 7 geographies. The Heckyl Team is a close-knit, highly motivated and passionate team of industry professionals with decades of experience in software development.

Role: Sr. News Analyst

Location: Mumbai

Working Days: Monday to Friday and odd Saturdays

Salary: Per Market Standards

Job Description:

- Ability to take up the entire responsibility of the product end-to-end

- Work closely with management to prioritize business and information needs

- Locate and define new process improvement opportunities

- Improvising on existing features of the product using data analysis

- Monitor various aspects of the News platform

- Take action on improvement of accuracy of sentiment platform and news tagging

- Data management including daily data update & validation as well as collection whenever required

- Passion to learn new things; keep updated on latest trends in market

Qualifications and Skills

- Graduate/Post graduate with 3 to 6 years of experience

- Min. 2 to 3 years of relevant experience

- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy

- Take accountability and ownership of the product road map

- Highly motivated, self-starter

- Ability to learn complex procedures/ tasks quickly

- MS Office skills are a must

- Basic knowledge of SQL preferred