Description
Charles River Associates' Financial Economics practice provides financial institutions, legal teams, and regulators with experience and quantitative analysis capabilities to achieve objectives in regulatory and litigation matters related to consumer finance and risk management.
The Associate role involves conducting sophisticated economic, financial, and strategic analysis in a project-based environment, developing familiarity with data, working collaboratively with senior-led teams, ensuring reliability of analysis via peer review, and assembling compelling evidence from data and research to support expert opinions and business recommendations.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct sophisticated economic, financial, and strategic analysis
- Develop familiarity with data that serves as input to analysis
- Work collaboratively with senior-led teams
- Ensure reliability of analysis via peer review
- Assemble compelling evidence from data and research
- Interact with clients through meetings and conference calls
Desired Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative discipline (Economics, Finance, Financial Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Accounting, Engineering, Statistics)
- Up to 3 years of related experience in building and using data sets
- Research experience and quantitative ability
- Proficiency with statistical analysis programs (Stata, Python, R, SAS, ArcGIS/ArcPy)
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Eagerness to learn new skills and programming languages
Career Growth & Benefits:
- Robust skills development programs
- Comprehensive total rewards program
- Wellness programming and employee assistance resources
- In-house immigration support for foreign nationals
Salary and other compensation: A good-faith estimate of the annual base salary range for this position is $92,500 - $105,000.