About Hartford Advisers
Hartford Advisers is a specialist strategic intelligence and investigative research firm. Our team is primarily made up of former investigative journalists, and we work with leading private equity firms, institutional investors, corporates and advisers on complex investigations and intelligence assignments around the world.
We are looking for a talented Senior Associate – Investigative Researcher to join our growing team.
We are particularly interested in hearing from journalists and former journalists. Candidates with experience in investigative journalism, business or financial journalism, data journalism or other research-intensive reporting roles are strongly encouraged to apply.
The role is particularly well suited to journalists who enjoy the investigative side of reporting: finding information that is difficult to access, developing and interviewing sources, interrogating public records and data, substantiating allegations and turning complex evidence into clear, accurate written findings.
The Role
Senior Associates work across a broad range of investigative assignments, including:
- Investigative due diligence on companies, management teams and counterparties
- Investigations into allegations of fraud, misconduct, corruption, governance failures and other potential concerns
- Strategic and market intelligence for investors, including investment thesis testing and competitive intelligence
- Detailed assessments of senior executives and management teams
- Public-record and data-led investigations across multiple jurisdictions
- Extensive interviews with former employees, competitors, customers, industry participants and other knowledgeable sources
You will take significant responsibility for assignments, from developing an investigative approach and identifying and developing sources through to conducting interviews, analysing findings and producing detailed written reports.
This is not a conventional desk-research role. We are looking for someone who is naturally investigative: able to take a difficult question, work out how to answer it, identify the right sources and evidence, follow up on interesting leads and obtain information that the client could not readily have obtained themselves.
About You
You should have:
- Excellent investigative and research skills
- Strong interviewing experience and the confidence to develop, question and follow up with sources
- The ability to find information that is difficult to locate through conventional research
- Experience substantiating and corroborating findings across multiple sources
- Excellent judgement when assessing the reliability, credibility and significance of information
- Exceptional written English and the ability to explain complex findings clearly and precisely
- Strong attention to detail and a rigorous approach to factual accuracy
- The ability to work independently and manage several fast-moving investigations simultaneously
- A curious, sceptical and persistent approach to research
Experience using corporate records, financial filings, litigation records, regulatory databases, public datasets or other investigative research tools would be particularly useful.
Professional journalism experience is strongly preferred, particularly within investigative, business, financial or data journalism. We will also consider exceptional candidates from corporate intelligence or other investigative research backgrounds who can demonstrate similarly strong investigative, interviewing and writing skills.
Working at Hartford
Hartford is a fully remote UK business. We offer substantial responsibility, exposure to complex international assignments and the opportunity to develop within a fast-growing specialist investigative firm.