Strategic Economist Manager

When you join KPMG Ireland, you are joining a community of over 4,200 employees who collectively work together, both in person and virtually, to achieve their full potential.

We are known as an organisation who want you to come as you are and do work that truly matters. Joining KPMG Ireland is an opportunity to enhance your career, not only in the work that you enjoy doing, but equally through the global connections that you make, the lifelong learning that you can accomplish and the chance to make your mark.

Strategic

Economist Manager

Location:

Belfast Grade:
Manager Contract type:
Permanent

Within KPMG Ireland, you will be joining the KPMG Ireland Strategy team – the number one onshore Strategy house on the island of Ireland. This team is a dedicated team of skilled professionals with backgrounds across economics, finance, engineering and other disciplines who work collaboratively to help private and public sector organisations.

A snapshot of your peer group:

• For Manager roles: 3-5 years in a challenging corporate graduate programme, consulting environment or economics role in government
• Excellent supporting academic training in economics, business and similar subjects
• A strong interest in preparing analysis to inform commercial decisions or growth strategies
• An appetite for driving sales and winning work
• Experience, or an interest in learning, analytical approaches to support economic impact assessments, regulatory and market studies, CDDs and evidence-based policy making
• A track record of quickly adapting to new challenges on a regular basis
• Able to produce quality documentation communicating analysis, approach, and findings to a non-technical audience (especially using PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft Word)
• Evidence of having strong presentation skills and experience liaising with clients
• Commitment to high quality analysis and attention to detail
• An enthusiasm for working across different sectors and industries,with a focus on our teams priority sectors: aviation, digital infrastructure, financial services, food and agriculture, healthcare and life sciences and construction, engineering and manufacturing

Your responsibilities and achievements will evolve as you enhance your career with us. Here is what you can initially expect:

• Assisting a diverse range of clients including in the private sector, and in government and with trade groups with economic modelling to inform commercial and strategic decision-making
• Developing bespoke analysis to answer the challenge in hand based on information available
• Utilise your academic qualifications and professional experience to date in a varied and dynamic working environment
• Working across all sectors in the economy, especially in our priority sectors
• Playing an active role across all parts of project delivery:
• Problem framing, hypothesising, storyboarding, research, write-up
• Planning and completing research programmes, identifying insights
• Leading on Excel modelling, gathering data and testing hypotheses
• Contributing to the team’s growth through external business development and internal networking
• Supporting wider team deliverables and owning specific elements of content
• Delivering succinct and action-oriented recommendations to clients to add value to their own activities/operations

Your team:

You will be joining a team of more than 25 people based across Dublin and Belfast. Our team is part of KPMG Strategy globally, forming a global network over 2,000 strategy practitioners in over 35 countries. Our team provides a diverse range of services (e.g. economic modelling, Commercial Due Diligence, Growth Strategy) and we work across all key sectors in the Irish economy (e.g. agri-food, aviation, life sciences, manufacturing, etc).

You can read more about us here:

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