Economics Analyst Birmingham, England
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Location: Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Gatwick, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Leeds, Leeds Broadgate, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Plymouth, Reading, Sheffield, South Coast, Watford
Capability: Consulting
Experience Level: Junior Professional
Type: Full Time
Service Line: DAS and Economics
Contract type: Permanent
Job description
KPMG UK’s Economics team, centred in the London office, is made up of around 30 Economists, who apply economic theory and quantitative techniques to real world problems, helping corporate and public sector bodies understand markets and improve their decision making.
The team’s activities cover a range of practices that include competition economics, applied microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, and financial economics. The team works in a range of sectors including financial services, technology, healthcare, retail, telecoms, energy, transport and water. Examples of recent work carried out by the team include advising the European Commission on the Google Shopping abuse of dominance case, a cartel damages dispute, an impact assessment for a large retailer in the UK, providing macro-economic forecasting and scenarios to large banks, advising on regulatory price control appeals in the water sector, and advising on UK and EU merger investigations.
Economists at KPMG often work closely with academic advisers on client projects and research. They also collaborate closely with KPMG colleagues in other parts of the UK firm, for example Data Analytics, Disputes, Deal Advisory or Tax. The team frequently collaborates with other member firms within the KPMG network, including several countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South East Asia, Australia and North America.
The Role
We are looking for highly motivated individuals with a focus in competition economics or regulatory finance to join our team as Analysts.
Responsibilities:
- Be a key member of our successful team, delivering high quality economic advice to our clients.
- Prepare quantitative and qualitative evidence to provide insight and value to our clients. Examples of this work include preparing information requests, data collection, preparation and analysis, industry research, literature reviews and drafting of client deliverables.
- Support business development and practice development activities within the team.
- Clearly and effectively communicate economic concepts and findings to non-economist audiences, verbally and in writing.
The Person
Qualifications and skills:
- MA/MSc/MPhil or above in Economics. We are interested in a range of economics backgrounds, but a quantitative econometrics and/ or economic theory focus, either in micro or macro-economics, is desirable.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- An ability to work as part of a team, towards tight deadlines, and a keen willingness to learn.
- An ability to explain complex economics clearly, and apply economic concepts and techniques to real world situations.
- Experience and/or qualifications in quantitative techniques/econometrics and the handling of large datasets desirable.
- Knowledge of programming languages such as R, Stata or others is desirable.
Please submit both a CV and cover letter outlining your relevant academic modules and any practical exposure, and summarising the topics of your thesis if applicable - This helps us assess the right part of the Economics team for you to join.
Why Consulting at KPMG?
Technology is a critical focus for us. It underpins everything we do. We're investing in technology like never before – not least because the pace of technological change is disrupting organisations in new and challenging ways. Through advanced data analytics and emerging tech-enabled solutions like AI and machine learning, we're helping clients across diverse sectors to navigate that change. We enable them to avoid any unnecessary risks and to uncover new, transformative opportunities that could give them a competitive edge. A career here means stretching your skills and honing your expertise by solving complex problems as part of a collaborative, results-driven and supportive team. Whether we're helping our clients to reduce their costs, make better decisions, improve efficiencies or deploy the latest technologies, we bring together broad specialisms and talents to deliver robust, connected solutions.
