Responsibilities
- Define, lead and manage multiple tasks within a workstream as part of a larger engagement
- 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 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
- 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
- Outline, supervise and provide quality control over analytical tasks assigned to junior team members
- 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 clients’ needs
- Engage in technical writing and long-form narrative development
- Create pitch decks and define AECOM Advisory’s value proposition
- Bring commercial acumen around client needs, budgetary requirements, and researching client contexts
- Support logistical and administrative processes to ensure risk management and compliance
Requirements
- 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
- 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
Nice to Have
- 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
- Functional experience in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: Proficiency with geospatial datasets and software e.g., ArcGIS
- Functional experience in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: Proficiency with input-output or general equilibrium economic modelling tools such as Esmi, IMPLAN or REMI
- Functional experience in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: Proficiency with Stata, R, Python and other programming languages
- Functional experience in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: 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
- Domain expertise in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: Project finance and/or infrastructure investment appraisal
- Domain expertise in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: Sustainability, climate change, net zero and ESG strategies and frameworks incl. non-financial valuation methodologies
- Domain expertise in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: Economic development, industrial policy and market transformation
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA, Denver, CO, Chicago, IL
Team
Team size: 400. Structure: global team of business and policy analysts, economists, commercial strategists, technology architects, human capital and change management practitioners
