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About the Role

Charles River Associates (CRA) is a leading global consulting firm providing economic, financial, and business management expertise. We advise clients on complex economic and financial matters related to litigation, regulatory proceedings, and critical business strategy issues. CRA is known for its rigorous, fact-based analysis and implementable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Conduct economic and industry research while analyzing client materials to build an understanding of a case’s issues.
• Perform and develop financial and economic analyses or valuation models to support case theories and present results to colleagues and clients.
• Program, build models, and perform regression analyses using languages such as Excel, Stata, R, Python, SQL, or SAS.
• Develop familiarity with data that serves as input to these analyses, including company transactional data, financial reporting, accounting statements, and social and economic survey data, as well as non-financial measures of organizational performance.
• Review and summarize analyst reports, academic literature, client documents, depositions, license agreements, and industry trade press.
• Assist in the production and development of research summaries, expert reports, and the presentation of findings, including creation of visuals like tables and charts.
• Ensure reliability of analysis through quality control review.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree candidates graduating December 2026/Summer 2027 with an academic focus on quantitative research (Economics, Business, Finance, Financial Economics, Accounting, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field).
• Completion of an honors thesis, research apprenticeship, or research seminar program is highly desired.
• Demonstrated understanding of, and ability to explain, economic, financial and/or accounting concepts, and quantitative and qualitative analysis methods.
• Experience in Excel, Stata, Python, R, SQL, SAS, ArcGIS/ArcPy, or Cloud computing (Databricks/Spark, Google Cloud, Azure, AWS).
• Curious and analytical thinkers who bring creative approaches to non-standard problems.
• Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Eagerness to learn new skills and programming languages.
• Demonstrated high level of initiative and leadership.
• Demonstrated attention to detail and commitment to producing accurate, high-quality work.
• Strong teamwork and collaboration capabilities.
• Excellent time management and task prioritization skills.
• Clear and demonstrated interest in consulting through coursework, work experience, activities, or attendance at CRA recruiting events.
• Resume including current address, personal email and telephone number.
• Cover letter describing interest in CRA and how the role matches goals, noting practice and/or location preference.
• Transcript (may be unofficial).
• Writing Sample: preferably a sole-authored submission from an existing work (class paper, thesis, internship, or work product) that includes commentary on a quantitative analysis and/or is relevant to the field of economics.

Skills

• Economic analysis
• Financial analysis
• Business management expertise
• Quantitative research
• Excel
• Stata
• R
• Python
• SQL
• SAS
• ArcGIS/ArcPy
• Cloud computing (Databricks/Spark, Google Cloud, Azure, AWS)
• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Attention to detail
• Teamwork
• Collaboration
• Time management
• Task prioritization

Location

• Boston
• Chicago
• Oakland
• Salt Lake City
• Washington, DC
• College Station
• Los Angeles
• New York
• Tallahassee

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Entry Level

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree
• Master's degree

Salary/Compensations

• $92,500-$100,000

Benefits

• Comprehensive total rewards program
• Superior benefits package
• Wellness programming (physical, mental, emotional, financial)
• In-house immigration support for foreign nationals and international business travelers
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Paid time off (vacation, sick leave, holidays)
• Paid parental leave
• Employee assistance resources
• Commuter benefits

About the Company

• 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.

Equal Opportunity

• Charles River Associates is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.