Senior Associate/Litigation Services (Energy)

CRA International • Boston, MA

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About The Position

Consultants in CRA's Energy practice have researched, published, taught, and consulted on energy matters for more than 20 years on behalf of major energy companies, governments, investment banks and private equity funds and other clients. We have advised on developing the structure of national and regional competitive markets, reorganized multi-billion-dollar companies, testified in billion dollar plus damages litigation, and played a key role in most North American utility mergers and acquisitions that have taken place over the last decade.

Requirements

• Strong interest in the energy industry
• Majored in a quantitative discipline such as Economics, Physics, Engineering, or Mathematics
• High value on research experience
• Computer and programming skills
• Presentation and communication skills
• Strong writing ability
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Effectively communicate complex ideas to all levels of the client organization
• 5-7 years of relevant work experience is preferred
• Experience with MS Excel, programming languages, or other data analytics tools

Responsibilities

• Working closely with leading academics, managing the research process, and supervising, training and mentoring junior analysts
• Conducting research in a supportive, team-oriented environment
• Acting as a primary point of contact for clients and assisting in the development and presentation of client deliverables including expert reports summarizing our opinions, conclusions, and recommendations and third party financial, market and industry data
• Consulting with attorneys and other clients in industry and government on a wide variety of finance, strategy and economics issues
• Independently conceptualizing and identifying issues, designing complex economic and financial models to analyze economic and financial data
• Programming, model building and/or regression analysis in statistical analysis programs (such as Stata, SAS, R or Python)
• Ensuring the integrity and accuracy of analyses and opinions
• Assist regulators and financial institutions with analysis of trading on exchanges and in OTC markets for a wide spectrum of contracts
• Work with those testifying in judicial proceedings to provide economic analyses of mergers and other competition matters before the major competition authorities of the world
• Performing a broad range of quantitative consulting tasks related to energy markets and energy sector investments
• Assisting in the production and development of research summaries, expert reports, and the presentation of findings
• Analyzing economic and financial data using spreadsheets and statistical programs
• Conducting industry, market structure, and competitor-positioning studies
• Reviewing and summarizing analyst reports, client documents, and industry trade press
• Ensuring the integrity and accuracy of analyses
• Assisting with Analyst recruiting efforts

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees