Senior Associate, Trust and Mass Torts (Data Analytics)

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

The Ankura Trust & Mass Torts practice is commonly engaged to assist financial investigations, litigations and disputes, turnaround and process improvement engagements, and other critical business issues. The Data Analytics team specializes in the efficient identification of relevant and responsive data across clients’ vast internal systems and repositories and works with clients to efficiently extract and effectively analyze client data. The team’s consulting experience involves large, diverse, and often incomplete data sets across client enterprises including financial, accounting, human resources, payroll, and a variety of other business systems. The team collaborates with computer forensics and investigatory experts to assess and respond to both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of problems. A Senior Associate in the Data Analytics practice is responsible for utilizing data analytics and technology skills to provide accounting and finance related consulting services to clients.

The Senior Associate will work with clients – businesses, government entities, and/or law firms – to address their most complex and pressing concerns. The Senior Associate must be capable of applying advanced, strategic approaches to assist clients with complex information management and analysis challenges by combining data analytics techniques, sophisticated technology tools, and information management principles to help clients make well-informed decisions. Ankura provides Director with the opportunity to work collaboratively on diverse teams with skilled, intelligent, driven, and successful individuals.

• This is a hybrid role with 2-3 days in the Washington DC office.
  
  

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate, you will be intimately familiar with the clients' big-picture objectives and challenges as well as ingrained in the smallest details of their organization’s data and IT infrastructure. With this knowledge you will be responsible for designing and executing efficient, innovative analytical solutions to address their issues. Responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to, the following:

• Coordinating with client contacts to identify, acquire, synthesize, and analyze relevant data
• Identifying the relationships among multiple sources and types of data, and organizing this information to facilitate effective data analysis
• Designing and implementing complex financial models to generate meaningful metrics and/or visual demonstratives
• Analyzing and interpreting historical financial, operational, and transactional data
• Performing the day-to-day client engagement activities, including interaction with client personnel, internal Ankura team members, and other stakeholders involved in the engagement
• Contributing to the overall success of the firm by participating in pitches, developing internal training, and marketing the firm externally to prospective clients
  
  

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in finance, accounting, economics, statistics, data analytics; Masters Degree preferred
• Minimum of 3 years of work experience in a related field
• Experience with Python and/or R in addition to other data analytics languages
• Experience with SAS preferred
• Familiarity with database management and querying tools (e.g., SQL, VBA)
• Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Tableau
• Able to demonstrate excellent communication (written and verbal), mathematical, and organizational skills
• Able to adapt quickly in handling multiple/evolving tasks as a result of new engagements and/or re-prioritized deadlines
• Highly motivated, eager to learn, and able to motivate others
• Able to utilize technology to solve complex problems
• Able to produce high quality and/or final work product under strict deadlines
• Possess strong quantitative and qualitative research and analytical skills
• Possess strong team-oriented personality characteristics: hard-working, thoughtful, and collaborative, with a positive outlook and confidence
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
  
  

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