Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Deloitte - Commercial Economics & Statistical Consulting Associate


Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP (“Deloitte FAS”) advises clients on managing business controversy and conflict, executing deals, and maintaining regulatory compliance. We provide services to companies throughout their lifecycle - from purchasing a company to investigating potential fraud.

Specifically, we help clients address serious business concerns involving fraud, forensic investigations, litigation and reorganization. Through Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC, our wholly owned securities brokerage subsidiary, we assist clients with originating and executing transactions and strategic investments for mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and capital planning. We also advise businesses on valuation issues and other matters to help them remain compliant in today's rigorous regulatory environment.

Our dedicated Deloitte FAS professionals bring vast experience, specialized skill sets and deep industry knowledge to our clients. This personalized level of service, combined with the market reach and technical resources of the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) member firms and their affiliates, enables us to respond to the complex and diverse needs of our clients around the world.

We are seeking qualified candidates to join the Economic and Statistics Consulting service line in our New York and Washington, DC offices.


The Deloitte FAS Economic Consulting practice seeks professionals to work in bringing economic concepts and econometric techniques to solve real-world business problems.

Qualified applicants will possess the following characteristics:
• Interest in empirical economic research
• Ability to work independently to solve problems
• Strong attention to detail and ability to do careful, high quality work
• Excellent computer programming skills
• Experience with applied statistics and econometrics
• Experience with creating and managing very large data sets

The Economics Group works on litigation, business consulting, and data mining engagements. We collaborate with private and government clients on a variety of data intensive engagements, applying the tools of economics and statistics to offer client solutions to business issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelors and/or Masters Degree
• Coursework in Economics or other empirical sciences; in addition to a minimum of one of the following areas: Statistics, Econometrics, Mathematics, or Computer Science.
• Sound research skills
• Previous work experience as a research assistant or demonstrated ability to conduct independent research, including programming skills in SAS, Stata, or other statistical or data management software.
• Prior experience working with and managing large data sets, including extraction and merges from source systems, data cleansing and transformations, and providing preliminary descriptive statistics.


 To Apply

Apply by Feb 15, 2013 on Careers4Terps (www.careercenter.umd.edu). Search for Job ID 71908.