Senior Associate; Labor & Employment practice

Overview

College Station, TX;
Los Angeles, CA;
Tallahassee, FL;
Washington, DC

About Charles River Associates

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.

Position Overview

CRA’s Labor and Employment Practice provides expertise and support in a wide range of litigation disputes involving employment processes such as compensation, hiring, promotion, termination, and the role of gender, race, ethnicity and age in employment practices. Our clients, which include preeminent law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies, come to us for our technical skills, rigorous analysis, and expert insight to understand all aspects of their employment data.

We also assist employers by conducting proactive studies of employment and contracting practices, monitoring consent decrees and settlement agreements, and designing systems to track employment practices.

Senior Associates work closely with senior consultants on project teams. Successful candidates have a strong knowledge of economic concepts and a range of research and quantitative skills. A typical Senior Associate would:

• Conduct research in a team-oriented environment alongside some of the most respected academics, industry experts and regulators in the world;
• Use techniques from statistics, machine learning and deep learning to conduct fair lending analyses of client models and tools, such as evaluating whether models have disparate effects on different demographic groups and how those effects vary among alternative model formulations;
• Program, build models and/or perform regression analyses in statistical analysis programs (such as Stata, SAS, Python, R) that clean, coordinate and analyze large volumes of data related to underwriting, pricing, and redlining analyses;
• Supervise, train and mentor junior analysts;
• Assist in the development and presentation of client deliverables, including expert reports and white papers to explain analytical decisions and comply with clients’ model risk management and model validation requirements;
• Act as a primary point of contact for attorneys and other industry or government clients on a variety of practice-relevant issues;
• Ensure the integrity and accuracy of analyses and opinions;
• Participate in practice-building activities (training, recruiting, publication, expertise sharing, etc.).

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

• PhD degree in economics with an academic focus on quantitative research, with specializations like industrial organization, applied microeconomics, econometrics, labor, corporate finance, financial accounting, or other quantitative areas, and up to 3 years of relevant professional experience in designing and performing economic analyses (consulting experience preferred);
  • Alternately, Bachelor's or Master's degrees (preferred), plus 5-7 years of relevant professional experience in designing and performing economic analyses (consulting experience preferred);
• 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;
• 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;
• Demonstrated understanding of, and ability to explain, economic, financial and/or accounting concepts, and quantitative and qualitative analysis methods;
• Experience…