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SalaryOur Summer Associate internships will be approximately 8 weeks in length and will begin Summer 2024. Summer associate positions are for candidates with expected graduation date between December 2024-July 2025.
This position is located in the New York office.
Candidate must be able to submit verification of his/her legal right to work in the United States, without company sponsorship now or in the future.
Overview
Berkeley Research Group (BRG) is a global consulting firm that helps leading organizations advance in three key areas: disputes and investigations, corporate finance, and performance improvement and advisory. We are an integrated group of experts, industry leaders, academics, data scientists, and economists, working beyond borders and disciplines. We harness our collective expertise to deliver the inspired insights and practical strategies our clients need to stay ahead of what’s next.
Responsibilities
The work of a Summer Associate can be either qualitative or quantitative in nature, and projects range from industry and subject matter research to data collection to the preparation of statistical, financial, and other forms of analysis. Summer Associates should be able to assemble compelling evidence from data and research that supports our expert opinions.
- Develop and maintain electronic databases, spreadsheets and other files as dictated by project needs.
- Use programming, model building, and regression analysis skills in statistical analysis programs (such as Stata, R, or Python) and combined with their economic intuition to produce analysis for a variety of cases and/or projects across industries.
- Perform detailed research and analysis, then put the results into action (e.g., gather, review, and summarize literature and data from the public domain, specialized industry resources, or client, public and commercial databases).
- Produce analysis for a variety of cases and/or projects across industry.
- Interact with senior staff, leadership, and clients to communicate economic concepts in an understandable manner.
- Demonstrate creativity and efficient use of relevant software tools, analytical methods, and computer models to develop solutions.
- Apply critical thinking skills in quantitative and qualitative analysis.
- Audit own work product and work product of others to assure quality.
- Participate in a team environment and work hard to meet client deadlines and quality expectations.
- Keep abreast of relevant policies with state regulating bodies on an ongoing basis.
Qualifications
- Progression towards Master’s or bachelor’s degree in economics or a minor in a field of economics studies.
- 3.5 GPA or higher
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- 0-1 year of experience, including internships
- This position requires a highly motivated problem solver with strong analytical ability and a desire to advance within an organization.
- Proven capability with MS Excel and relational database program(s) (e.g., MS SQL Server, SAS, MS Access, Tableau, Alteryx, MS Access, MySQL, Oracle, or Teradata). A desire to expand these capabilities is required.
- Experience with statistical analysis programs (e.g., SAS, SPSS, Stata, R) is desirable but not required.
Hourly Range: $25-$35/hr
