Utility Economics & Financial Forecasting Analyst

Your Opportunity

This position is an external client facing position with our Management Consulting Team.

As an Analyst II within the Management Consulting Team, you will be supporting asset, organizational, financial, infrastructure funding, economic, and technology consulting services to local governments and utilities in North America.

• Analyze and structure large data sets and summarize information
• Use graphs and other tools to visualize data and analytical results
• Perform industry research and develop summary materials
• Develop quantitative financial and economic models, with limited oversight, to support client business challenges across multiple industries for a variety of complex issues; as well as train junior analysts in these areas.
• Serve as an active member of multiple teams at client meetings, performing tasks such as interactive use of analytical tools and facilitating workshops; as well as train junior analysts in these areas.
• Evaluate client-specific situations and requirements, working dynamically with project teams to identify and recommend solutions to complex business, strategic, infrastructure, and operational issues.
• Assist, and at times lead, the project team in interactive meetings with clients to identify and analyze issues affecting their organizations and key stakeholders.
• Support and cooperate as needed with business development staff in responding to client requests, RFQs, and RFPs.
• Meet performance goals and objectives as assigned, with respect to client-specific demands, stated delivery milestones, and training activities.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with and analyzing large data sets and willingness to spend large amounts of time working with data as well as performing research
• Working knowledge of and interest in local government organizational structure, budgeting / reporting, funding programs, and types of services they provide is preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Excel including quantitative modeling and analysis required.
• Proficiency with PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat Pro and other business systems required.
• Experience with additional data analysis tools is a plus, including but not limited to Access, Power BI/Tableau, GIS, SQL, Python, R, etc.
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.
• Capable of presenting/sharing analyses in an interactive work setting while being able to make adjustments in a live setting.
• Self-starter capable of efficiently and proactively working independently as well as with a geographically dispersed team.
• Strong sense of Team. Always willing to step in and take on additional responsibility for the good of the entire Team.
• Strong attention to details as deliverables are open to public review and scrutiny.
• Willing to travel as needed. In the first year, travel may be up to 20%. As you develop your skills for success and become a crucial part of the project team, travel requirements may increase.
• Requires a satisfactory driving record.

• Intellectual curiosity:
  Top performers are driven to ask why things work or don’t work currently and how we might address this—even if, or especially if, this thinking falls outside of conventional wisdom. We need bold thinkers willing to challenge assumptions and develop new solutions.
• Lifelong learners:
  This field provides ample opportunities to develop new skills and tools, and to combine left and right brain thinking to combine math, modeling, and an understanding of public perception to solve complex problems. There are little to no “routine” answers. The most successful candidates have a genuine desire to continually learn to solve…