Advisory Consultant – Economics

About the role

AECOM Advisory is seeking a dynamic Advisory Consultant - Economics to support our growing global Advisory business line. We are recruiting for this role in the following metro areas: Boston, MA, New York, NY, Washington DC, Raleigh, NC, and Miami, FL.

Responsibilities

• 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 modeling (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.
• 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.
• Support 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.
• 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, 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.

Pay

The offered rate of compensation will be based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. The range for this position is $100,000 to $150,000 per year.

Schedule

This position will not offer sponsorship assistance now or in the future.

Benefits

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment. Relocation assistance is not available.