Consulting Associate

Company: CRA International, Inc.
Location: 1201 F St NW, Suite 700, Washington, D.C. 20004
Posted on: January 5, 2017

Job Description:

Consulting Associate for Charles River Associates in Washington, DC to

conduct complex financial and economic analyses and develop presentation

materials related to overall corporate strategy as well as individual

practice strategy and operations. Conceptualize and develop a comprehensive

and creative approach to analyzing complex strategy and operational issues

related to compensation, budgeting, internal business/career development

initiatives, and profitability across practices. Review, manipulate and

analyze large economic and financial datasets using Microsoft Excel, STATA

and SQL and identify key information for external investors as well as

CRA’s internal Board of Directors. Use historical company data to analyze

key drivers of financial performance in each practice. Evaluate

profitability and individual performance within each practice and work with

high level executives to determine an equitable allocation of bonus funds

across practices. Track progress of internal career development initiatives

by compiling and evaluating financial and activity-based performance data

against budgeted expectations. Identify and design analytic tasks and

customize standard analytic tools for projects that require applying

creative solutions to multi-faceted problems. Ensure the integrity and

accuracy of analyses. Assist in the final stages of presentations and

deliverables. Review and summarize analyst reports, academic articles and

industry trade press. Draft sections of reports, presentations and memos

that involve standard analysis. Requires Bachelor's degree in economics,

statistics, econometrics or related field (will accept foreign education

equivalent) plus 3 years of experience performing financial and econometric

analysis in support of litigation or business development. Experience must

include demonstrated expertise (DE) performing regression analysis and

econometric modeling -- utilizing MATLAB, SAS, SQL, or VBA for Excel -- to

measure competitive interactions and anti-competitive effects on pricing,

margins, and sales; DE writing loops and macros to clean complex large

datasets using Stata, SPSS, R, or S-PLUS to prepare the data for

econometric and quantitative studies, including market share, pricing,

demand or event studies; DE applying microeconomic theory, industrial

organization, corporate finance theory, and econometrics to analyze

economic markets and competitive effects to resolve market comparison

problems using quantitative analysis methods and techniques; and DE

analyzing KPIs, including profit & loss, billability, revenue generation,

lead generation, operating productivity, gross margin, performance,

internal marketing, and variable cost percentage, to develop dashboards to

enhance communication among relevant stakeholders. Send resume to

mdesai@crai.com, and list Job Code: 35 in Subject Line. EOE.

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