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Our Financial Economics practice will be hiring in our Washington, DC office.
Our Financial Economics practice is a leader in providing economic analysis, advice, and testimony for consumer financial services clients in the U.S. Our work as financial economics and fair lending experts focuses on rigorous empirical assessments, whether before a court or a regulatory agency. CRA Financial Economics consultants have an exceptional breadth of knowledge and experience in consumer compliance and model validation. We set a high standard for the clear communication of sophisticated economic analysis in regulatory compliance, supervisory matters, enforcement matters and class action and single-plaintiff litigation matters.
We advise and provide empirical analyses for residential mortgage lenders, auto lenders, credit card providers and FinTech firms. In the Financial Economics Practice at Charles River Associates, your work will help clients build models that promote fair and equitable access to credit in housing finance, auto lending, student lending and other credit programs.
Responsibilities may include:
We are actively searching for a senior quantitative analyst who will be responsible for the development and execution of quantitative analytics and modeling projects. This will include applying modeling and statistical techniques to underwriting, pricing, and redlining analyses. For model validation projects, you will use techniques from statistics, machine learning and deep learning to conduct fair lending analyses of client models and tools, such as evaluating whether models have disparate effects on different demographic groups and how those effects vary among alternative model formulations. You will prepare documentation to explain analytical decisions and comply with clients’ model risk management and model validation requirements. You will write programs that can clean, coordinate and analyze large volumes of data. The analyses may be presented to both technical and non-technical audiences.
As most of our work is done in the office, minimal travel is required.
Qualifications
Successful candidates will have or be expected to complete a Ph.D. in economics by 2023.
CRA provides immigration assistance to eligible foreign nationals in accordance with the firm’s immigration policy and applicable law.
How to Apply
To be considered for all interview opportunities, candidates must:
- Submit your curriculum vitae, cover letter, a copy of a research/job market paper or dissertation, and 3 letters of recommendation to this posting
- Submit the very short CRA online application at https://grnh.se/649f77701us. If you have a location or practice preference, please indicate that in the application.
Deadline
Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis, with first round interviews occurring virtually. To be considered, please submit your application no later than November 16, 2022. Candidates who are focusing their search on industry and consulting and would like to be considered early should indicate that in the CRA online application and submit all materials as early as possible.
- Cover letter
- Curriculum vitae
- Job market paper
- Additional paper (optional)
- Other material (in one file) (optional)
- Video presentation of job market paper (optional)
- Video presentation of applicant (optional)
- Letters of reference: 3