Consulting Associate (Labor & Employment practice)

Job Description

Charles River Associates (CRA) is seeking a Consulting Associate to join its Labor and Employment Practice. This role involves providing expertise and support in litigation disputes related to employment processes. The Consulting Associate will work closely with senior consultants on project teams, using data to solve client problems.CRA is a global consulting firm that provides economic, financial, and business management expertise to major law firms, corporations, and governments.Responsibilities:

• Program, build models, and perform regression and data analysis in statistical analysis programs (Stata, SAS, or R).
• Review, process, and construct datasets that solve client issues, using company time-keeping, applicant tracking, performance, and HRIS data.
• Perform labor market research to develop an independent fact base.
• Review and summarize client documents and third-party research to identify key information.
• Participate in analysis design, report preparation, project management and the presentation of findings.
• Ensure reliability of team's analysis through quality control review.
• Participate in practice development activities (mentoring, training, recruiting, knowledge management).

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Economics, Mathematics, Business Economics, Statistics or related analytic discipline.
• 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience (2 to 5 years with an earned Master's) in the field of Labor and Employment.
• Solid working knowledge of economic and statistical concepts.
• Professional experience programming in statistical analysis programs, particularly Stata, SAS, R or Python.
• Command of a broad range of research and quantitative analysis skills (including strong Excel skills).
• Curious and analytic thinkers who bring creative approaches to non-standard problems.
• Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated high level of initiative and leadership.
• Strong teamwork and collaboration capabilities.
• Excellent time management and task prioritization skills.

Benefits:

• Skills development programs with 100 hours of training annually.
• Technical training, presentation skills, internal seminars.
• Career mentoring and performance coaching.
• Comprehensive total rewards program.
• Wellness programming.
• In-house immigration support.