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Associate - Generalist - Montreal / Toronto

JOE ID Number: 2024-02_111474700
Date Posted: 10/07/2024
Date Inactive: 10/27/2024
Position Title/Short Description
Title: Associate - Generalist - Montreal / Toronto
Section: Full-Time Nonacademic
Locations: Montreal, Quebec, CANADA
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
JEL Classifications:
D -- Microeconomics
G -- Financial Economics
I1 -- Health
J -- Labor and Demographic Economics
L -- Industrial Organization
M -- Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics
Full Text of JOE Listing:

Analysis Group is expanding in Canada and opening a Toronto office in early 2025. When applying to the position, you are required to rank your office preference(s). In addition to ranking your preference(s), you will be asked to assign a percentage weighting to each location to indicate your interest level, totaling 100%.

About Groupe d'analyse
Groupe d’analyse is one of the largest economics consulting firms, with more than 1,200 professionals across 14 offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Since 1981, we have provided expertise in economics, finance, health care analytics, and strategy to top law firms, Fortune Global 500 companies, and government agencies worldwide. Our internal experts, together with our network of affiliated experts from academia, industry, and government, offer our clients exceptional breadth and depth of expertise.

- We offer cutting-edge analyses and analytical tools to address business challenges that require rigorous, evidence-based research.
- We collaborate with top professors from leading institutions to create a bridge between current academic thinking and real business issues.
- We assist premier law firms in many different litigation contexts, including antitrust, healthcare, intellectual property and commercial damages, and with all aspects of litigation, including pretrial discovery, development of economic and financial models, preparation of testimony, and critique of opposing experts.
- We advise corporate and government clients on a range of business issues that require expert interpretation of economic and financial data, including valuation of companies and assets, securities and financial instruments, tax and transfer pricing issues, cost-effectiveness analyses, market analyses, and evaluation of mergers and acquisitions.
- We also help organizations create strategies for growth by analyzing market dynamics and organizational capabilities, enhancing innovation in current products and services, and identifying new market opportunities.

About the Associate Position:
As an associate, you have the opportunity to work on complex business problems within a collaborative environment. Associates can expect to work on multiple projects at a time across various practice areas and industries. As an associate, you will play a critical role in driving the research, analysis, and strategy of cases. Responsibilities and work experiences may include but are not limited to the following:

- Identifying key economic issues and developing relevant analytical frameworks
- Formulating economic and financial models
- Conducting empirical studies
- Performing quantitative and qualitative research
- Collaborating with academic and in-house experts
- Presenting results of analyses
- Thinking creatively about how leading-edge analytics and emerging data sources address clients’ most pressing business challenges
- Coordinating multiple work-streams or analyses within a case team, including both the work product and the team members involved in it
- Helping companies leverage analytic tools to better manage innovation

Groupe d'analyse fosters a progressive and academically oriented work environment, with an emphasis on teamwork and collaboration across diverse areas of expertise. Specifically, we seek candidates who have:

- A graduate degree in economics, finance, or general business, MBA or Ph.D. preferred
- Passion for using data and analytics to solve the economic, financial, and business challenges our clients face
- Expertise in areas such as price theory, finance, industrial organization, labor economics, health economics, accounting, marketing, survey design, econometrics, market structure, and competition economics
- Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
- An excellent academic record
- Demonstrated experience working collaboratively in a team environment and the ability to effectively work independently
- Excellent attention to detail
- A desire to continuously learn and develop professionally

How to Apply
To be considered, you must upload a cover letter indicating geographic preference(s) and curriculum vitae. If you are completing your Ph.D., please also upload your job market paper and have three letters of recommendation sent to Associate.Recruiter@analysisgroup.com.

If you are a Ph.D. applicant and interested in interviewing with us prior to the AEA conference, please apply and send an email to Associate.Recruiter@analysisgroup.com.

We currently have openings in Montreal and Toronto.

The application deadline for the Associate - Generalist (PhD) position is Monday, November 18, 2024. Interviews will begin in mid-December. After the deadline, we may continue reviewing applications on a rolling basis. If you miss the application deadline and the role remains posted, we will still encourage you to apply and you may be considered pending availability.

Application Requirements:
  • External Application URL and Instructions Below
  • Letters of Reference Instructions Below
Application deadline: 11/18/2024
Reference Instructions:
To be considered, you must submit three letters of recommendation to Associate.Recruiter@analysisgroup.com.
Application Instructions:
To be considered, you must upload a cover letter, your curriculum vitae, and job market paper via the Analysis Group Website and submit three letters of recommendation to Associate.Recruiter@analysisgroup.com.