# (2028 Bachelor's/Master's graduates) Accounting/Business/Finance Consulting Analyst/Associate Intern (Summer 2027)

**Company**: Charles River Associates
**Location**: Boston, MA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: internship
**Salary**: $30 - $37.50 per hour
**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.

We are seeking a Summer Analyst/Associate Intern to join our team in Boston, Chicago, Houston, New York, or Oakland.

**Position Overview** Our Summer Analyst/Associate Internship program mirrors the analyst experience to give you an understanding of our business and experience project work at Charles River Associates. Throughout the 8-10 week program, Analyst/Associate Interns work alongside senior colleagues to deliver live client consulting projects within the practice area.

**Responsibilities**

- Work alongside talented and diverse colleagues, including PhD-trained economists, finance and accounting professionals, and valuation experts

- Conduct economic and industry research while analyzing client materials to build an understanding of a case’s issues

- Perform/develop financial and economic analyses or valuation models to support case theories and present those results to colleagues and clients

- Program, build models, and perform regression analyses using languages such as Excel, Stata, R, Python, SQL, or SAS

- Investigate accounting irregularities and respond to allegations of fraud, misconduct, waste, and abuse

- Use your accounting and financial skills to prepare analyses of financial data, including financial models, for litigation and expert reports and testimony

- Investigate and analyze financial evidence, including financial records and transactions, to identify trends and anomalies, and clearly and concisely organize and summarize your findings

- Leverage your database skills to effectively analyze large data sets

- Communicate with team members, clients, and other professionals, to share investigative and analytical findings, and assist with the drafting of written reports to summarize procedures performed and findings

**Desired Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree candidates graduating in December 2027/Summer 2028 with an academic focus in Accounting, Business, Finance, or a related area

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

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

- Familiarity with generally accepted accounting principles, corporate governance, and regulatory environments

- Experience in gathering, standardizing, and analyzing voluminous transactional data

- Experience in data analysis and intelligence gathering, including querying and mining large data sets to discover transaction patterns, examining financial data, and filtering for targeted information

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

- Effective written and oral communication skills

- Demonstrated high level of initiative and leadership

- Demonstrated attention to detail and commitment to producing accurate, high-quality work

- Strong teamwork and collaboration capabilities

- Excellent time management and task prioritization skills

- Clear and demonstrated interest in consulting through coursework, work experience, activities, or attendance at CRA recruiting events

**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, encourage you to thrive as an individual and team member

- 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
- Excel
- Stata
- R
- Python
- SQL
- SAS
- data analysis
- financial modelling
- accounting
- finance
- economics

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