Senior Associate​/Litigation Services; Energy

Senior Associate / Litigation Services (Energy)

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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.

• 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
• Assist regulators and financial institutions with analysis of trading on exchanges and in OTC markets for a wide spectrum of contracts
• 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
• 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 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;
• Support 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.

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 Mathematics. We place high value on research experience, computer and programming skills, presentation and communication skills, and strong writing ability. A successful applicant will be able to work collaboratively in a team environment and effectively communicate complex ideas to all levels of the client organization.

Applicants with skills in both energy and economics/finance, and those with 5–7 years of relevant work experience, will be…