Review Analyst

About Cascade Asia

Cascade Asia is an Asia-focused intelligence and risk advisory firm helping global brands, investors, and international organizations understand and manage supply chain, labor, and ESG risks. We specialize in field-verified human intelligence, data-driven risk insights, and actionable briefings across Asia.

Role Overview

This is a full-time, remote role based in Romania. The Review Analyst is the editorial reviewer for Cascade's recurring intelligence products and, for most deliverables, the review between analyst submission and client delivery. The role exists to ensure that every Cascade product meets the firm's evidence and methodology standards consistently and at volume. Cascade operates in markets where commercial databases routinely run out of road, and this role is the standing check that the firm's published claims hold up to scrutiny. New hires complete a 6-12-month ramp during which Cascade's senior team trains the role on the firm's review methodology, evidence framework, and editorial standards. After ramp, the Review Analyst is expected to operate independently on most deliverables.

This role is suited to an individual who is process-oriented. The ideal candidate would be comfortable following internal review procedures for different intelligence products and maintaining high editorial standards. They would also be a problem solver. The Review Analyst will be expected to identify areas of improvement in the review process and work with senior team members to devise solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Review Deliverables End-to-End: Serve as the editorial reviewer for Cascade's recurring product lines. For most files, this is the only review between analyst submission and client delivery.
• Verify Research: Cross-check analyst output against original sources, including corporate registries, customs and trade records, sanctions and PEP databases, court records, and field collection notes. Conduct OSINT research and additional checks in various target languages to identify missing details, if any.
• Hold the Line on Methodology: Apply Cascade's Stated vs. Observed framework consistently. Flag language that overstates what the evidence supports. Confirm that structural signals are grounded in documentary evidence rather than inference. Keep terminology and product structure consistent across deliverables.
• Catch the Recurring Errors: Many of the issues that arise in any given report are predictable across the product line. Maintain and refine Cascade's internal review checklist, and apply it systematically across every file. Spot the same five things going wrong across thirty reports before they reach a client.
• Escalate Substantive Concerns: When a file raises genuine analytical, methodological, or source-protection concerns that fall outside routine review, escalate to the matter.

Knowledge & Skills Required

• Experience: Approximately 3-5 years in due diligence, investigative research, compliance, or a closely related field. Prior experience at a leading due diligence or investigative firm preferred. Knowledge of project management principles and methodologies is a bonus.
• Methodical Temperament: Treats consistency and reliability as a craft. Comfortable with structured, high-volume review work and the discipline it requires. Catches small errors at scale and takes satisfaction in doing so. This is not a stepping-stone role into analyst work; we are looking for someone who is genuinely good at this job and wants to keep being good at it.
• Trainability: Open to learning Cascade's specific review methodology, evidence framework, and editorial standards during a six-to-twelve-month ramp. Not locked into the workflows of a prior employer.
• Analytical Care: Applies a facts-based approach to editing. Able to recognise when an analytical claim is doing more work than the underlying evidence allows, and willing to flag it. The role is not analytical in itself, but it requires the judgment to know when a finding is unfounded.
• Cross-Jurisdictional Comfort: Comfortable working across Asian jurisdictions, including markets where commercial database coverage is limited and source material is fragmented.
• Communication: Fluent, professional written and verbal English. Able to maintain high professionalism and respect when working with colleagues from different cultures. Helpful and concise when flagging mistakes and willing to provide constructive criticism on analyst work when the evidence does not hold.
• Regional Knowledge (Plus): Working proficiency in one or more relevant Asian languages (Mandarin, Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese, Thai, or Burmese), and prior familiarity with corporate registry systems, customs and trade data, or regional sanctions and adverse media platforms in Asia. None of these are required, but all will strengthen a candidate's application.