The Company:
Alacra is a digital media company that aggregates content from more than 165 premium
business and financial information databases along with thousands of reputable business web
sites and blogs. Alacra provides a single point of access to this content through its suite of
powerful online applications specifically designed for the needs of information professionals,
analysts and researchers.
Worldwide, more than 600 organizations representing 50,000 end users worldwide use Alacra to
effectively find and deploy business information in their daily workflow. For more information,
visit www.alacra.com.
The Opportunity:
The successful candidate will work in an environment where he has an immediate impact on
Alacra product quality. This quality is critical to the current and future success of the company.
You will also have day to day interaction with other functional areas of the company as well as
clients and content partners.
Alacra encourages employees to constantly improve process and nowhere is this more valued
than in the concordance group. Being a fairly flat organization, it is possible for the individual
to determine improvement features and then drive the implementation of such features.
A detail oriented person whose penchant is having everything in its place and accounted for will
feel right at home here. The challenge of havinq companies from multiple sources of
information always correctly linked together provides an extreme sense of accomplishment
when achieved. Concordance at Alacra will provide the opportunity for you to prove your ability
in this arena, your mastery of process, and implementation of ideas for improvements.
The successful candidate will have to understand existing processes in Alacra and with this have
three major responsibilities.
1. Suggest & implement strategies for improvement in current maintenance process
2. Quality assurance for concordance data
3. Coordinate with offshore research team, who provide data entry capability to the firm
Requirements:
Operations/data quality experience in the diqital content space
Strong process development & management skills required
A deep blend of technical and analytical skills
Thorough understanding of business/finance desired
Experience working with outsourced research team a plus
Hands-on skills with SQL and data mining a plus
Contact: concordanceiobs@alacra.com or call Colin duSaire at 212-806-3840.