Consultant, Advisory

About the role

AECOM Advisory is seeking a dynamic 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; Denver, CO; Chicago, IL.

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.

Requirements

Required: Bachelors degree and at least 2 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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Sharp 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.

Desired Competencies

• 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.