Sr. Economics Consultant

AECOM•Boston, MA

23h•Hybrid

About The Position

AECOM is a global infrastructure consulting firm committed to delivering a better world. AECOM Advisory is seeking a dynamic Economics Consultant to support its growing global Advisory business line. This role is for talented management consultants who are mission-driven to support clients in achieving economic, environmental, and social vibrancy. The position is available in Boston, MA, New York, NY, Washington DC, Raleigh, NC, or Miami, FL. Building on AECOM’s expertise in infrastructure design and implementation, AECOM Advisory serves as a trusted adviser to senior-level clients and executive teams on their most pressing enterprise and strategic needs. The global team of 400 staff includes business and policy analysts, economists, commercial strategists, technologists, and human capital and change management practitioners. The team helps clients develop strategy, improve operational performance, and integrate digital systems to generate value and impact. Clients span the full value chain of 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 will lead quantitative and qualitative analysis to develop and/or evaluate strategies addressing policy, design, supply chain, and social challenges. This role is a new category of consulting, leveraging AECOM's operational and technical expertise to provide industry depth and capability-driven insight. As an Economics Consultant in AECOM Advisory’s US East Region, the day-to-day role involves defining, leading, and managing 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.
Ability to 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.
Bringing commercial acumen around client needs, budgetary requirements, researching client contexts.
Supporting logistical and administrative processes to ensure risk management and compliance.