Senior Consultant - Securities, Commodities & Derivatives, Economics & Quantitative Strategy

FTI Consulting•New York, NY

About The Position

The Securities, Commodities, and Derivatives practice advises clients across securities, commodities, and derivatives on a wide range of transactional, advisory, and contentious matters. We provide clients with innovative, analytical, and strategic solutions at critical times. Our team is made of true experts who have contributed to the theory, written seminal books on derivatives, traded global markets across asset classes, built and managed leading trading businesses in major financial institutions, and advised on high-profile transactions and litigation in global capital markets and commodity trading groups. Our quantitative and trading expertise across asset classes, proprietary analytics, and risk management technologies gives us an unparalleled ability to support clients in complex advisory engagements and litigation matters that related to securities, commodities, and derivatives. Our work includes independent expertise and testimony in disputes, litigation, arbitration, complex valuation matters including structured derivatives and customized business valuation, transactions (e.g. M&A) and restructuring advisory, risk management, derivatives hedging advisory, business transformation, integrated due diligence, independent business review, and quantitative solutions. Our clients are broker dealers, asset managers, hedge fund managers, private equity firms, crypto firms, regulators, legislators, brokers, commodity traders, energy companies (including upstream, midstream and downstream operators), and mining and metal processing firms.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree
3+ years post-graduation professional work experience in economic consulting or financial service firms
Strong working knowledge and experience with Excel required
Ability to communicate effectively and authoritatively, verbally and in writing
Capacity to critically evaluate and compare different sources of information and assumptions to assess reliability
Ability to develop and apply robust methods to address complex economic and/or financial issues
Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, meeting deadlines whilst having to rely on inputs provided by others
Proficiency in MS Office
Good understanding of financial instruments and derivatives valuation and risk management techniques across asset classes (equity, fixed income, credit, foreign exchange, commodities, energy)
Alignment with our firm's values of integrity, creativity, achievement, respect and empathy

Nice To Haves

Experience with Python strongly preferred
Familiarity with global financial market policies and regulations is considered an advantage

Responsibilities

Delivery of individual workstreams within projects, working alone or with others.
Central involvement in analysis and the preparation of formal written reports.
Taking responsibility for research and other gathering of information.
Carrying out quantitative, industry and marketing analysis.
Reporting findings in a clear, concise and structured way.
Developing practical and effective solutions to address client issues, by bringing insight and experiences.
Summarizing the results of work for presentations and reports.
Supporting the senior team with writing articles and preparing presentations.
Coordinating team logistics, including marketing, billing, recruiting, and other logistics.
Performing research and collaborating in the implementation of proprietary valuation and risk management solutions.
May be involved with other practices at FTI, with a focus on financial, commodity, and energy markets.