Senior Consultant, Advisory

Company Overview

Change the World. At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We’re one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world.

AECOM Advisory is seeking a dynamic Senior Consultant to support our growing global Advisory business line.

We are recruiting for this role in the following locations:
Los Angeles, CA;
San Francisco, CA;
Sacramento, CA;
Denver, CO;
Chicago, IL.

Building off AECOM’s considerable expertise in infrastructure design and implementation, AECOM Advisory is a trusted adviser to senior level clients and executive teams on their most pressing enterprise and strategic needs.

Projects range from supporting the City of LA adopt their Citywide Housing Incentive Program (CHIP) Ordinance, developing SCAG’s Regional Resilience Toolkit, and conducting an Integrated Human Resources Plan for LADWP’s Power System.

• Apply existing and hypothesize new solution frameworks to deconstruct, dimensionalize, and analyze client problems.
• Leverage AI tools to conduct baseline assessments and secondary research.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews, including with C-suite clients and senior management stakeholders.
• Conduct business modelling (market sizing, segmentation, penetration, adoption) and investment analysis by building custom discounted cash flow (DCF) Excel models to calculate revenue, cost-benefit analyses (CBA), EBITDA, NPV, IRR, CAGR for client’s policies, projects and programs.
• Leverage analytical and data visualization tools (e.g., ArcGIS, Costar, IMPLAN, Python, Tableau) to derive patterns, trends and insights from client and third‑party datasets to inform client recommendations.
• Outline, supervise and provide quality control over analytical tasks assigned to junior team members.
• Create highly‑polished executive‑ready decks as you work, to build buy‑in and convey emerging data‑driven insights.
• Synthesize multiple inputs into coherent insights across a variety of formats; slide decks, written narrative, playbooks, dashboards and toolkits.
• Contribute to business development through solutions architecture and framework development to meet our clients’ needs, technical writing and long‑form narrative development, creating pitch decks and defining AECOM Advisory’s value proposition, bringing commercial acumen around client needs, budgetary requirements, researching client contexts, and supporting logistical and administrative processes to ensure risk management and compliance.

• Curiosity about our clients, their business, and the industries they operate in.
• Strong interpersonal skills, client‑service mindset and ability to act as a trusted adviser to clients.
• Work in a high‑tempo, high‑context client‑facing environment, with the ability to maintain poise, maturity and work well under pressure.
• Able to be self‑directed, anticipatory and responsive to iterative feedback.
• Outstanding attention to detail.
• Exceptional numerical reasoning and quantitative skills.
• Sharp analytical, logical reasoning and structured problem‑solving skills, employing abstraction techniques to solve ambiguous client problems, and ingest and parse out large volumes of client information.
• Strong commercial acumen and willingness to have an informed point‑of‑view, grounded in an interest in enterprise challenges (people, process, technology) and developing understanding of client industries and their context.
• Solid verbal communication and narrative development skills, with the ability to summarize and convey key insights to C‑suite and senior management audiences.
• Collegial team‑player who can work within a small, motivated team of diverse consulting professionals.

• Functional experience in at least one of the following areas (desired, not required):
• Proficiency with data science analytical techniques and familiarity using multiple public datasets including BLS,…