NERA Senior Consultant

NERA Senior Consultant

Requirements

• Must have a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Economics, Public Administration, International Development or a related field
• Must have five (5) years of experience in the position offered, as a Consultant, Associate Consultant, or a related position
• Must have three (3) years of experience with all of the following: Assessing impact of economic events using input/output models as well as statistical models on operations and finances; Evaluating complex economic models involving financial products including options and derivatives; Quantifying and calculating economic and financial damages for litigation; Working with microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts including economic efficiency, marginality, industrial organization, commodity markets, resource economics, and general equilibrium to assess economic regulation, impact of global events and in litigations and disputes; Reading and understanding financial statements, including income/P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statements and analyzing and understanding of companies’ capital structure, including debt vs. equity; Developing custom-built financial valuation models in Excel including discounted cash flow analysis, trading multiples and public company comparables; Performing statistical and econometric modeling, forecasting economic and financial data using statistical and econometric techniques, including regression, time-series, smoothing and causal methods, and modeling using Excel, R, or Python; visualizing regression and modeling results using R, Python, Tableau, or other visualization tools; Scrubbing, cleansing/tidying, and transforming large datasets for modeling tasks in R or Python and running, reviewing and developing code and logbooks in Stata; Extracting insights and facts from processed and unprocessed data; Researching and synthesizing publicly available documents and data, including economic articles, regulations, and published papers and translating facts into statistical measures that can be modeled; Calculating relevant financial ratios, cost analyses, and economic measures from multiple data sources; Designing and developing PowerPoint presentations outlining statistical/economic analysis and results; Writing, reporting, summarizing, and explaining complex statistical and economic analysis.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement financial energy models, such as discounted cash flow models and forecast pricing, for various energy and finance sector clients
• Apply economic theory and design of energy market principles to provide support for litigation, international arbitration, pricing, regulatory, and public policy issues
• Conduct analyses applying damages valuation, asset and contract valuation, mergers & acquisitions, regulatory reform, experimental economics, and causal inference
• Offer consultation regarding litigation, regulatory and policy matters to clients in the energy and finance sectors as well as the renewable energy space; draft expert reports
• Provide policy advice and support related to energy market matters in various economies
• Monitor developments in the fields of energy and environment, keeping abreast of fundamental economic, industrial, and technological developments by analyzing information from relevant publications and services, government agencies, and trade publications
• Perform research and analysis focused on quantitative methods that relate to energy and finance sectors
• Participate in business development efforts
• Present and publish on diverse subjects, such as energy, causal inference, finance, mergers & acquisitions, and asset and contract valuation
• Plan, direct, and supervise the work performed by more junior staff.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.