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Advisory Consultant – Economics

AECOM · New York, NY · 2 mo ago
HybridFinance$100k–$150k/yrFull-time

About the role

AECOM Advisory is seeking a dynamic Advisory Consultant - Economics to support our growing global Advisory business line. We are seeking talented management consultants to join AECOM Advisory who are mission-driven for the role of our clients in supporting economic, environmental and social vibrancy.

Responsibilities

  • Applying existing and hypothesizing new solution frameworks to deconstruct, dimensionalize, and analyze client problems.

  • Leveraging AI tools to conduct baseline assessments and secondary research.

  • Conducting stakeholder interviews, including with C-suite clients and senior management stakeholders.

  • Conducting 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.

  • Leveraging 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.

  • Outlining, supervising and providing quality control over analytical tasks assigned to junior team members.

  • Creating highly-polished executive-ready decks as you work, to build buy-in and convey emerging data-driven insights.

  • Synthesizing multiple inputs into coherent insights across a variety of formats; slide decks, written narrative, playbooks, dashboards and toolkits.

  • In contributing 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.

  • Supporting logistical and administrative processes to ensure risk management and compliance.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of management consulting or related experience (e.g., technical consulting, analyst roles in business, public policy, economics research, private equity, investment banking or corporate strategy experience); or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.

  • 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.

  • Funding and financing strategies, including value capture.

  • Economic and fiscal impact analysis.

  • Evaluation of financial cashflows, particularly public finance, via Excel.

  • Pro forma modeling to determine financial feasibility.

Preferred Qualifications

  • MBA, or other Master’s degree in Operational Research, Management, Management Science, Finance, Economics, Systems Engineering and/or related fields; or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.

  • Bachelor’s degree in STEM disciplines.

  • 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.

  • Solid verbal communication and narrative development skills, with the ability to summarize and convey key insights to C-suite and senior management audiences.

  • Collaborative 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, but not required:

    • Proficiency with data science analytical techniques and familiarity using multiple public datasets including BLS, BEA, NAICS data, ACS and other geographically-defined socioeconomic datasets.

    • Proficiency with geospatial datasets and software e.g., ArcGIS.

    • Proficiency with input-output or general equilibrium economic modelling tools such as Esmi, IMPLAN or REMI.

    • Proficiency with Stata, R, Python and other programming languages.

    • Proficiency with data visualization techniques, such as with PowerBI or Tableau.

    • Domain expertise in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required:

      • Corporate or enterprise/organizational assessment.

      • Project finance and/or infrastructure investment appraisal.

      • Sustainability, climate change, net zero and ESG strategies and frameworks incl. non-financial valuation methodologies.

      • Economic development, industrial policy and market transformation.

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