Associate Principal - Antitrust and Competition Economics - Remote

Overview

Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that provides economic, financial, and business management expertise to major law firms, corporations and governments around the world. CRA advises clients on economic and financial matters pertaining to litigation and regulatory proceedings, and guides corporations through critical business strategy and performance-related issues. Since 1965, clients have engaged CRA for its combination of industry experience and rigorous, fact-based analysis that provide clients with clear, implementable solutions to complex business concerns.

In Short

• Work closely with leading academics and consulting with attorneys and other clients in industry and government on a wide variety of finance, strategy and economics issues.
• Conduct research in a supportive, team-oriented environment.
• Act 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.
• Independently conceptualize and identify issues, design complex economic and financial models to analyze economic and financial data.
• Program, build models and/or perform regression analysis in statistical analysis programs (such as Stata, SAS, R or Python).
• Manage the research process, and supervising, training and mentoring junior analysts.
• Ensure the integrity and accuracy of analyses and opinions.
• 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.
• Assist with recruiting and training of new colleagues.

Requirements

• Strong achievement in an undergraduate degree program and graduate degree program (Masters or PhD) with focused study in economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering or another quantitative discipline.
• Graduate degree plus 0-10 years of experience, consulting experience preferred.
• Demonstrated understanding of economic concepts, and quantitative and qualitative analysis methods.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills.
• Experience programming, model building, and regression analysis using languages such as Stata, R, Python, or SAS.

Benefits

• Access to internal training programs focused on creative problem solving, communications, and leading and managing colleagues, teams and cases.
• Extracurricular activities where you can take on a leadership role in recruiting, training, and volunteer activities in the local community.
• Work environment that enables colleagues to benefit from being together in the office.
• Flexibility to work from home periodically.
• Additional remote work options during certain times of the year.