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Application Specialist, Financial Data

AlphaSense logoAlphaSenseLondon, Greater London, England, United KingdomListed 3mo ago

The posting

About AlphaSense:

AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents - including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high-quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real-time information quickly. For more information, visit www.alpha-sense.com . Come join us.

About the Role:

The Financial Data Application Specialist role at AlphaSense lives at the intersection of sales, customer success, and technical implementation for AlphaSense’s financial data products. This is a new team at AlphaSense supporting a strategic area of investment for the business, so we are looking for entrepreneurial minded people that can use learnings from client discussions to help optimize both our go-to-market and product strategies. Specialists add value across our revenue organization by building relationships with prospects and clients, providing deep technical knowledge to demonstrate the value of AlphaSense’s financial data while helping to drive adoption. Due to the extensive exposure that Specialists have with clients, they’re also in a prime location to partner with our sales,

What You’ll Do

  • Growth Initiatives : Assist sales in demos and strategic trials of AlphaSense’s financial data solutions. The team also runs trial training calls, making the ability to overcome common objections and communicate our value proposition essential to success.
  • Customer Health : The team works hand in hand with account management, speaking with and visiting users to provide advanced training, customizations, and product consultations. Specialists often drive adoption by building custom templates or other bespoke modeling tools for our customers.
  • Subject Matter Expert : Specialists have expertise in quantitative analysis for investment and valuation decisions. They know the use cases that our customers are likely to care about, and package it for utilization by sales and account management. This can come in the form of how-to videos, enablement, product marketing, support articles and others that can be used for meetings or email distribution.
  • Product Direction : Because of our Specialists’ deep understanding of both our financial data products and customers, they are in a position to field feedback and identify product opportunities, and relay that information across the organization (account management, account executives, product, management).
  • Support: Act as an escalation point for our product and support teams on difficult scenarios our customers may face with our solutions, particularly when leveraging Excel Add-ins. Manage and resolve challenges related to the full integration of our modeling solutions into our clients’ workflows.
  • Regional Agility: Comfortable working in a leaner EMEA team structure, flexing across sales, CS, and product-support skillsets and adapting coverage as needed to collaborate effectively with our larger US-based Financial Data team.
  • Build Relationships: They help integrate our quantitative products into client's workflows helping our account management team grow and retain our customer base. They work closely with Fortune 1000 clients and/or financial services companies (Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, Investment Banks, and Private Equity clients).

Who You Are

  • A client-facing professional with a superior ability to develop rapport with new people, and to maintain relationships, combined with a positive and proactive personality.
  • Someone with a finance background who wants to spend time being client facing and actively engaged with senior buyside professionals
  • Subject Matter Expert: Specialists have expertise in quantitative analysis for investment and valuation decisions. They know the use cases that our customers are likely to care about, and are brought into conversations to help with integration and adoption
  • A passion for technology, AI, and the capital markets
  • Excellent in 360 degree communication and collaboration
  • Able to distill and explain complex issues in simple terms.
  • Genuine interest to learn how the different tools we've built contribute to our clients' processes, to help identify when a particular client should be using them, and to identify solutions that solve for a client’s needs
  • Intrinsically motivated with the ability to contribute to a dynamic and entrepreneurial team culture.
  • Strong time management and task prioritization skills.
  • An independent problem-solver, making multiple efforts to solve problems on your own before escalating
  • Comfortable working in ambiguity, and flexible enough to adapt as needed to drive customer happiness.
  • Familiar with the institutional investor landscape, financial markets, and investment research

Minimum Qualifications

  • Strong foundation in Finance, such as working towards your CFA or bachelor’s degree in Economics/Finance/Accounting OR
  • 2-4 years of relevant experience in equity research, investment management, private equity, accounting or consulting with a strong desire to move towards client-facing positions
  • Strong Excel abilities (nice to have: knowledge on how to use VBA in the context of Excel workbooks)
  • Excellent communication skills, as you must manage relationships with high-profile fund managers and junior analysts alike

AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

Recruiting Scams and Fraud

We at AlphaSense have been made aware of fraudulent job postings and individuals impersonating AlphaSense recruiters. These scams may involve fake job offers, requests for sensitive personal information, or demands for payment. Please note:

  • AlphaSense never asks candidates to pay for job applications, equipment, or training.
  • All official communications will come from an @ alpha-sense.com email address.
  • If you’re unsure about a job posting or recruiter, verify it on our Careers page .

If you believe you’ve been targeted by a scam or have any doubts regarding the authenticity of any job listing purportedly from or on behalf of AlphaSense please contact us. Your security and trust matter to us.

Taken from AlphaSense's own posting, last seen live on 30 Oct 2026.

The application

Your details, CV and LinkedIn, then 6 questions (1 written).

Have readyCVLinkedInCover letter (optional)
  1. 1.
    Do you currently have permission to work in the UK?Pick one: Yes, for any employer · Yes, for a specific employer only (for example, Skilled Worker visa) · No
  2. 2.
    Will you require employer sponsorship for this role now or in the future?Yes or no
  3. 3.
    Is your permission to work in the UK time-limited?Yes or no
  4. 4.
    If yes, what is the expiry date of your current permission to work?Short answer · optional
  5. 5.
    Additional details (optional)Written answer · optional
  6. 6.
    Have you previously been employed by AlphaSense or any of its entities; or by an agency representing AlphaSense?Yes or no

From AlphaSense's apply page, checked 30 Oct 2026.

About AlphaSense

An AI search and research platform over filings, broker research, earnings calls and expert interviews, sold to financial firms and corporate strategy teams.

Pay schedule: Salary plus a commission plan its account executive postings call uncapped, with equity offered on top.

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