Research Services Associate

The Associate position is a full-time entry level consulting staff position. Associate positions are for candidates with an expected graduation date between December 2024 and July 2025. This job will remain open until September 12, 2025, and resumes will be reviewed on a rolling basis. OverviewBerkeley Research Group (BRG) is a global consulting firm that helps its clients, which consist of leading organizations and businesses, 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. Associate positions are available in BRG’s Research Services department. The Research Services department provides data subscriptions and research resources for our practices, enhancing BRG’s efficiency and profitability. Key duties include analyzing financial data, negotiating partnerships, managing invoices, budgets, forecasts, and monitoring KPIs. The team ensures cost-effective operations, improves management systems, and maintains high-quality customer service and training for BRG colleagues. As a new Associate in the Research Services department, you will focus on research tasks and projects to support all BRG practices across the firm. You will spend time learning the various tools and databases that our department provides in an effort to become proficient in understanding which of these tools to use to find documents, court filings and data, performing research in all areas and industries. The ability to juggle multiple requests and projects, prioritize them and deliver research results in a timely fashion while maintaining clear communication are paramount in this role. We pride ourselves on expediently completing these requests and delivering exceptional customer service to the firm.  Visit: www.thinkBRG.com ResponsibilitiesThe work of an Associate can have quantitative and qualitative aspects, depending on the needs of specific projects and the Associate’s skills and interests. Projects range from subject matter research to data collection to the preparation of economic, statistical, financial, and other forms of analysis. Associates should be able to work as part of a team to assemble compelling evidence from data and research that forms the basis for our expert opinions. General Responsibilities:

• Review data sets and qualitative materials to understand the unique requirements and issues involved in complex projects.
• Perform detailed research on topics relevant to a matter.
• Participate in a team environment and work to meet deadlines and quality expectations.
• Apply critical thinking skills.
• Interact with senior staff, experts, and clients to clearly communicate findings and economic concepts.
• Demonstrate creativity and efficient analytical skills to develop novel solutions tailored to unique projects.
• Audit both own work product and work product of others to assure quality.
• Possess strong organizational, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Provide valuable contributions to client deliverables and expert reports.
• Develop and maintain electronic databases, spreadsheets and other files as dictated by project needs.

 Quantitative Aspects:

• Identify and collect data from a variety of sources to serve the unique needs of a project.
• Develop, maintain, and analyze databases, spreadsheets and other files as dictated by project needs.
• Combine programming, model building, and statistical analysis skills using relational database and statistical software with economic intuition to analyze a variety of subjects. Use software such as SQL, R, Stata, SAS, Python, or Snowflake.

Qualitative Aspects:

• Gather and review information from academic literature, legal documents, specialized industry resources, commercial databases, or other sources appropriate for the unique requirements of a project.
• Summarize and communicate results of your research.
• Produce well-reasoned analysis for a variety of cases and/or projects across industries.

Qualifications 

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in economics, mathematics, data science, statistics, accounting, finance, healthcare administration or related fields.
• 3.5 GPA or higher. 
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• 0–2 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.
• Intellectual curiosity, self-starter, and ability to learn quickly.
• Proven capability with MS Excel.
• Experience with relational database p