# Consulting Associate (Intellectual Property practice)

**Company**: Charles River Associates
**Location**: Chicago, IL, United States; Houston, Texas, United States; New York, NY, United States; Washington, DC, United States
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $100,000 - $126,500
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that provides economic, financial, and business management expertise to major law firms, corporations and governments around the world.

CRA’s Intellectual Property practice applies deep expertise in finance, accounting, and economics to the valuation of intellectual property. Patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights, and other intellectual assets are unique, and it takes creativity and intellectual rigor to value these assets objectively.

As a Consulting Associate, you will work closely with senior consultants on project teams. You will assist the project team with the development of appropriate financial, accounting, and economic analyses and valuation models to support case theories using spreadsheets and databases.

Responsibilities:

- Conduct industry, market, and competitive research to develop an independent fact base

- Review and summarize client documents and third-party research to identify key information

- Perform interview-based research with client representatives, government entities, and industry associations

- Assist in the production and development of research summaries, expert reports, and the presentation of findings

- Ensure the integrity and accuracy of analyses

- Assist with practice development activities (training, recruiting, knowledge management)

Desired Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Economics, or related analytic discipline

- 3-5 years of relevant work experience (up to 2-4 years with Master's), with prior litigation consulting/valuation experience preferred

- Solid working knowledge of finance, accounting, and economic methodologies

- Command of a broad range of research and quantitative analysis skills (including strong Excel skills)

- Curious and analytic thinkers who bring creative approaches to non-standard problems

- Effective written and oral communication skills

- Demonstrated high level of initiative and leadership

- Strong teamwork and collaboration capabilities

- Excellent time management and task prioritization skills

Career Growth and Benefits:

- CRA’s robust skills development programs, including a commitment to offering 100 hours of training annually through formal and informal programs

- Comprehensive total rewards program including a superior benefits package, wellness programming to support physical, mental, emotional and financial well-being, and in-house immigration support for foreign nationals and international business travelers

## Skills

### Required
- finance
- accounting
- economics
- quantitative analysis
- Excel

### Nice to have
- litigation consulting
- valuation experience

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