(2027 PhD/ABD graduates) Economic Consulting Senior Associate - Canada

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.

As a Senior Associate in our Economic Consulting team in Toronto, you will work closely with senior consultants on project teams, conducting research, analyzing data, and developing client deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct research in a team-oriented environment alongside respected academics, industry experts, and regulators
• Identify and conceptualize issues, design complex economic models to analyze data, and manage the research process
• Supervise, train, and mentor junior analysts
• Assist in the development and presentation of client deliverables, including expert reports and white papers
• Act as a primary point of contact for attorneys and other industry or government clients
• Program, build models, and perform regression analyses in statistical analysis programs such as Stata, SAS, Python, R, Matlab, or Mathematica
• Ensure the integrity and accuracy of analyses and opinions
• Participate in practice-building activities, including training, recruiting, publication, and expertise sharing

Desired Qualifications:

• PhD degree in economics with a completion date of December 2026/Summer 2027 and an academic focus on quantitative research
• Curious and analytical thinkers with creative approaches to non-standard problems
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Eagerness to learn new skills and programming languages
• Demonstrated high level of initiative and leadership
• Strong teamwork and collaboration capabilities
• Excellent time management and task prioritization skills
• Clear and demonstrated interest in consulting
• Demonstrated understanding of economic, financial, and accounting concepts, and quantitative and qualitative analysis methods
• Experience in Excel, Stata, Python, R, SQL, SAS, ArcGIS/ArcPy, or Cloud computing

Career Growth and Benefits:

• Robust skills development programs
• Comprehensive total rewards program, including a superior benefits package, wellness programming, and in-house immigration support
• Work environment that enables colleagues to benefit from being together in the office and working from home periodically

Salary and other compensation:

• A good-faith estimate of the annual base salary range for this position is CAD$140,000-$200,000
• Eligible for additional bonus incentive compensation