Fall 2027 Advisory Associate

About The Role

The Associate position is a full-time entry-level consulting staff position. Associate positions are for candidates with an expected graduation date between December 2026 and July 2027. From day one, you'll work alongside experienced consultants and senior executives to help organizations solve complex strategic, operational, financial, and organizational challenges. As an Associate working in one of our advisory practices, you'll contribute to high-impact engagements that help clients improve performance, accelerate growth, optimize operations, and navigate change in an increasingly dynamic business environment. You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver practical, data-driven solutions that create measurable value for clients. Whether supporting strategy, operational transformation, performance improvement, organizational effectiveness, or technology-enabled change, you'll play an important role in helping organizations achieve their most critical business objectives.

What You'll Do

As an Associate, you'll be an integral member of project teams, partnering with consultants and client leaders to analyze complex business challenges, develop actionable recommendations, and support implementation efforts. You'll gain exposure to a variety of industries, business functions, and executive-level initiatives while building the analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills that define successful consultants. Your work will combine quantitative and qualitative analysis, strategic thinking, and client collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

• Conducting market, operational, financial, and organizational analyses to support board and executive decision-making.
• Analyzing quantitative and qualitative data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Developing board- and executive-ready presentations, reports, dashboards, and other client deliverables.
• Supporting strategic planning, operational improvement, organizational transformation, and business process optimization initiatives.
• Building financial models, business cases, and implementation roadmaps that support client recommendations.
• Performing industry, competitive, and market research to inform strategic decisions.
• Facilitating client workshops, interviews, and working sessions to gather insights and align stakeholders.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop innovative, practical solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in economics, mathematics, data science, statistics, finance, accounting, healthcare administration, healthcare informatics, engineering, environmental science or a related field. A GPA of 3.5 or higher is highly desirable.
• Experience: 0-2 years of work experience, including internships.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in Excel is required; experience with MS SQL Server, R, Python, Stata, SAS, Tableau, Snowflake, Alteryx, Databricks, or Teradata is highly desirable. The willingness and interest to expand into these capabilities is a must.
• Research: Ability to perform complex research accurately, thoroughly, and efficiently.
• Problem-Solving Mindset: Ability to structure ambiguous challenges, analyze data, and develop actionable insights.
• Collaboration & Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present findings clearly to different audiences.
• Adaptability & Initiative: Thrives in a dynamic work environment, with the ability to take ownership of tasks and drive them to completion.
• Location Preference: Associates will primarily be hired in locations like Washington DC, Boston, New York, and Chicago. Limited opportunities in Tampa and Pittsburgh. Expected to work a minimum of 3 days per week from an office, with encouragement for new Associates to work from the office as often as possible. Remote roles for practices requiring frequent travel to client sites are also available.
• Work Authorization: Candidate must be able to submit verification of their legal right to work in the United States, without company sponsorship now or in the future.

Practice Areas

Associates are hired to support project work aligned to one of BRG’s practice areas, though there may be flexibility to work across multiple practice areas. Candidates can select a preferred practice area as part of the application process.

• Healthcare Advisory: Focuses on helping healthcare organizations navigate challenges related to reimbursement, workforce, regulatory complexity, and technological change.
• Energy & Climate: Advises clients across the global energy value chain on strategic, commercial, financial, market, regulatory, and dispute-related issues.
• Financial Institutions Advisory: Serves leading financial services companies on matters of risk and regulation, compliance, financial crime, technology innovation, accounting, cryptocurrency, and customer experience.
• Construction: Specializes in providing budgetary and payment oversight, project management recommendations, project scheduling, and constructability and viability analyses for construction projects. Candidates are recommended to display an understanding of the construction industry and prior familiarity with project scheduling interfaces like Microsoft Project or Primavera P6.

Application & Timeline

• How To Apply: Submit a copy of your resume, cover letter, and transcript through the job posting by September 14.
• Application Review: Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
• Interview Notification: Candidates should expect to hear about consideration for interviews before November 2026.
• Job Posting Closing: This job will remain open until September 14, 2026.