Senior Associate​/Litigation Services; Energy

Position: Senior Associate/Litigation Services (Energy)
About Charles River Associates

Since 1965, Charles River Associates has been a premier consulting firm that offers employees a place to learn from a diverse group of consultants, industry experts, and academics. At CRA you will be exposed to leading minds who use economic, financial, and business analysis to solve complex world problems for an impressive roster of clients, including major law firms, Fortune 100 companies, and government agencies.

Through a collegial environment, formal and informal training opportunities, and a broad array of professional development resources, your experience at CRA will open doors for you as you accelerate your career.

Position Overview

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.

• 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

• Assisting regulators and financial institutions with analysis of trading on exchanges and in OTC markets for a wide spectrum of contracts

• Working 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

As a Senior Associate, you will conduct research and use software to organize, analyze, and deliver data-driven insights, you will have frequent contact with senior leadership, and you will always have your project team as a resource. Your responsibilities may include (but are not limited to):

• Electricity, oil, and gas market analysis;

• Economic assessments of policies and regulations impacting decisions at the plant, regional, and national levels;

• Supporting corporate and asset management clients in making and executing significant strategic and operational decisions across organizations in response to ESG concerns;

• Expert reports and testimony for energy-based litigation;

• Commercial strategy development and execution;

• Merger, acquisition, and divestment planning;

• Market potential assessments for renewable and unconventional energy technologies.

As most of our work is done in the office, minimal travel is required.

Qualifications

We’re looking for energetic, highly-motivated candidates with a strong interest in the energy industry who have majored in a quantitative discipline such as Economics, Physics, Engineering, or…