Assistant Director - TAS Economic Advisory Practice

Assistant Director - Economic Advisory

The Economic Advisory (EA) practice offers a suite of services that includes decision support, analytics, econometrics and operations research that assist clients in making strategic and tactical decisions. Incumbent will be applying economic theory and econometric tools to get to the root of client's problem, analyzing large and complex datasets and building predictive models to come up with robust and compelling solutions.

- First-hand knowledge on how the economic climate is changing

- Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment

- An opportunity to be a part of market-leading, multi-disciplinary team of about 600 professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide

- Opportunities to work with EY TAS practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries

TAS Economic Advisory Practice:

The Economic Advisory (EA) practice offers a suite of services that includes decision support, analytics, econometrics and operations research that assist clients in making strategic and tactical decisions. Incumbent will be applying economic theory and econometric tools to get to the root of client's problem, analyzing large and complex datasets and building predictive models to come up with robust and compelling solutions.

Responsibilities

Primary Responsibilities of the role

- Leading and managing engagements related to Economics Advisory

- Identifying new services within business and working with partners and senior managers on learning and piloting activities from GDS

- Building relationships with the firm's offices across the globe, demonstrating knowledge of regional practices business and developing open communication channels

Suitable applicants will be highly numerate and analytical, Master-level Economics with knowledge of finance and business and having experience in applying economic theory and econometric tools, at times innovatively, to solve client problems.

For this role, desired skillsets are :

- Strong academic and professional background in Economics, Business or Industrial Economics and Econometrics

- Good understanding of macro and micro economics and exposure in applying these concepts for analytics and forecasting.

- Ability to guide team on the best way to synthesize relevant information from huge datasets and producing insights that are relevant as per the business needs

- Knowledge and application of core data science and advanced analytics methods, such as statistics, segmentation & clustering, predictive modelling, simulation, and optimization in varied scenarios depending on the project requirements

- Familiarity with a broad base of statistical and analytics tools as below and expertise in a few of them :

Tools like Eviews, SPSS etc

Analytics Platforms (R, SAS)

Data Management (Excel, SQL, Alteryx)

Data Visualization (Tableau, Spotfire)

Programming or scripting experience (Python,VBA)

Job requirements

To qualify, candidates must have:

- Proven experience of 10 years + in developing and growing practices to serve new markets or provide new offerings, including ability to hold strategic conversations with stakeholders in senior and decision-making positions

- People management experience of 5+ years, including recruiting, training, performance appraisals and overall team development

- Excellent analytical, communication, organizational, interpersonal and teaming skills

- Willingness and ability to travel, when necessary

KRAs :

- Stay abreast of current business and economic developments relevant to our as well as the client's business

- Manage a team of professionals and ensure that workflow is seamless and well managed with on time delivery of engagements /projects

- Identify issues and propose strategies related to the procedures executed

- Demonstrate teamwork and responsibility by engaging with team members

- Manage own time to budgets and communicate progress against plan to assignment manager

- Specific engagement responsibilities will include end to end project delivery starting from scoping a project and breaking it down to smaller tasks with timelines attached, to allocation to review and delivery.

- Guiding and coaching team members and preparing the team to take on more complicated tasks

- Assess how to increase the effectiveness of services provided with use of better tools and techniques