Sr. Economics Consultant

AECOM•Boston, MA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. AECOM Advisory is seeking a dynamic Economics Consultant to support our growing global Advisory business line. We are seeking talented management consultants who are mission-driven for the role of our clients in supporting economic, environmental and social vibrancy. We are recruiting for this role in the following metro areas: Boston, MA, New York, NY, Washington DC, Raleigh, NC, or Miami, FL. Building off AECOM’s considerable expertise in infrastructure design and implementation, AECOM Advisory is a trusted adviser to senior level clients and executive teams on their most pressing enterprise and strategic needs. Our team of 400 staff globally comprises business and policy analysts, economists, commercial strategists, technologists, as well as human capital and change management practitioners. We help our clients develop their strategy, improve their operational performance, and integrate digital systems to generate value for their stakeholders and impact for their communities. We serve the full value chain of clients active in infrastructure, the built environment, and community vibrancy, including: national governments, regulatory entities, city agencies, utilities, transit agencies, infrastructure operators, private corporations, developers and investors. The successful candidate can lead quantitative and qualitative analysis to develop and/or evaluate strategies that address policy, design, supply chain and social challenges. We are a new category of consulting firm; one that builds off true operational and technical expertise of our broader platform to bring industry depth and capability-driven insight to the clients we serve. As an Economics Consultant in AECOM Advisory’s US East Region, your day-to-day role will be to define, lead and manage multiple tasks within a workstream as part of a larger engagement.

Requirements

Bachelors degree and at least 8 years of management consulting or related experience (e.g., technical consulting, analyst roles in business, public policy, economics research, private equity, investment banking or corporate strategy experience); or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
Exceptional numerical reasoning and quantitative skills.
Sharp analytical, logical reasoning and structured problem-solving skills, employing abstraction techniques to solve ambiguous client problems, and ingest and parse out large volumes of client information.
Strong commercial acumen and willingness to have an informed point-of-view, grounded in an interest in enterprise challenges (people, process, technology) and developing understanding of client industries and their context.
Funding and financing strategies, including value capture.
Economic and fiscal impact analysis.
Evaluation of financial cashflows, particularly public finance, via Excel.
Pro forma modeling to determine financial feasibility.

Nice To Haves

MBA, or other Master’s degree in Operational Research, Management, Management Science, Finance, Economics, Systems Engineering and/or related fields; or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
Bachelor’s degree in STEM disciplines.
Curiosity about our clients, their business, and the industries they operate in.
Strong interpersonal skills, client-service mindset and ability to act as a trusted adviser to clients.
Work in a high-tempo, high-context client-facing environment, with the ability to maintain poise, maturity and work well under pressure.
Able to be self-directed, anticipatory and responsive to iterative feedback.
Outstanding attention to detail.
Solid verbal communication and narrative development skills, with the ability to summarize and convey key insights to C-suite and senior management audiences.
Collegial team-player who can work within a small, motivated team of diverse consulting professionals.
Functional experience in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: Proficiency with data science analytical techniques and familiarity using multiple public datasets including BLS, BEA, NAICS data, ACS and other geographically-defined socioeconomic datasets.
Functional experience in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: Proficiency with geospatial datasets and software e.g., ArcGIS.
Functional experience in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: Proficiency with input-output or general equilibrium economic modelling tools such as Esmi, IMPLAN or REMI.
Functional experience in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: Proficiency with Stata, R, Python and other programming languages.
Functional experience in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: Proficiency with data visualization techniques, such as with PowerBI or Tableau.
Domain expertise in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: Corporate or enterprise/organizational assessment.
Domain expertise in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: Project finance and/or infrastructure investment appraisal.
Domain expertise in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: Sustainability, climate change, net zero and ESG strategies and frameworks incl. non-financial valuation methodologies.
Domain expertise in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: Economic development, industrial policy and market transformation.

Responsibilities

Applying existing and hypothesizing new solution frameworks to deconstruct, dimensionalize, and analyze client problems.
Leveraging AI tools to conduct baseline assessments and secondary research.
Conducting stakeholder interviews, including with C-suite clients and senior management stakeholders.
Conducting business modelling (market sizing, segmentation, penetration, adoption) and investment analysis by building custom discounted cash flow (DCF) Excel models to calculate revenue, cost-benefit analyses (CBA), EBITDA, NPV, IRR, CAGR for client’s policies, projects and programs.
Leveraging analytical and data visualization tools (e.g., ArcGIS, Costar, IMPLAN, Python, Tableau) to derive patterns, trends and insights from client and third-party datasets to inform client recommendations.
Outlining, supervising and providing quality control over analytical tasks assigned to junior team members.
Creating highly-polished executive-ready decks as you work, to build buy-in and convey emerging data-driven insights.
Synthesizing multiple inputs into coherent insights across a variety of formats; slide decks, written narrative, playbooks, dashboards and toolkits.
Contribute to business development, through: Solutions architecture and framework development to meet our clients’ needs.
Contribute to business development, through: Technical writing and long-form narrative development.
Contribute to business development, through: Creating pitch decks and defining AECOM Advisory’s value proposition.
Contribute to business development, through: Bringing commercial acumen around client needs, budgetary requirements, researching client contexts.
Contribute to business development, through: Supporting logistical and administrative processes to ensure risk management and compliance.