Media Analyst

**Description**

**About the job**
**About the Department: Insight Services**
Meltwater’s Insight Services team is responsible for curating bespoke reports and managing key projects of our biggest clients. We deliver business-essential intelligence reports based on our keen analyses of various media outlets across traditional and social media channels.

Our core competency of high adaptability to client’s requirements comes from the unique team of individuals composed of diverse insights & analytical skillsets. We always strive to break new grounds, constantly focusing on solution-oriented approaches and at the same time developing every individual to his or her full capacity.

**What You'll Do**:

- Be part of a media insights team based in our office in Kuala Lumpur
- Utilise our Meltwater proprietary software, G Suite Tools such as GSheets and GDoc, Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint extensively, to cover the end-to-end process of extracting raw data and delivering reports in a practical format for the clients
- Manage your portfolio of dailies/monthly/quarterly projects and ensure accurate & satisfactory output throughout the delivery process
- Acquiring and logging of data from broadcast and social media platforms, consolidating report narratives and maintaining databases
- Able to precisely summarise, translate news titles and articles from Chinese to English
- Manage complex quantitative and qualitative media analysis projects to provide clients with high-level reporting on their media performance.
- Analyse and interpret mainstream media, and social media to provide meaningful insights.
- Play an integral role of working cohesively with your team to ensure all deliverables and tasks are completed in high quality and well within deadlines
- Engage in process optimization initiatives across projects
- Share and contribute best practices in quantitative and qualitative reporting techniques
- Work closely and interdependently with internal analyst teams, team leads, project managers, with a shared purpose of value-adding to the clients

**Who You Are**:

- Strong proficiency in Chinese (for translations into English) and strong proficiency in English
- Preferably Bachelor's Degree (in any discipline) with strong academic results
- Entry level or have up to 1 - 2 years of relevant working experience
- Proficiency in using Google sheets, other G Suite tools, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. Any proficiency with sheet formulas are also a plus
- Knowledge of scripting and coding languages will be an advantage
- Detail-oriented: ensure data integrity, precision, and exercise vigilance in the analyses to arrive at correct conclusions
- Excellent in both qualitative and quantitative report writing skills
- Experience working in large teams is a plus
- Have a keen interest/keep up with current affairs, mainstream media, and social media

**What We Offer**:

- A world recognized and unique company culture
- Work with managers that truly value their people
- Empowerment in your role and career growth opportunities
- Generous vacation leave
- Remote/Hybrid work arrangements & vibrant offices (edited)