Associate, Analytics and Data Strategy

About The Firm

Secretariat professionals are trusted in the highest-stakes legal, risk, and regulatory matters around the world. When you join Secretariat, you become part of a rapidly growing elite team of bright minds and passionate problem-solvers. Your skills and expertise will be utilized on day one – working with the world’s most renowned law firms, leading corporations, and influential institutions to answer complex questions that shape critical financial, economic, and strategic business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

As a member of Secretariat’s expanding disputes practice, you will apply your exceptional analytical and quantitative skills to a myriad of complex damages, accounting, economics, and technology matters requiring the manipulation of large, disparate datasets. This role requires collaboration with Secretariat experts and other accounting, valuation, economics, and technical professionals within the practice to deliver bespoke solutions for our clients on their high-stakes legal and regulatory matters. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Assist with obtaining data relevant to the analysis at hand, loading that data in an analytics platform in preparation for analysis; and performing checks to ensure the veracity of that data
• Assist with the quantification of damages and exposure amounts, funds tracing across accounts, and other analyses involving historical financial, operational, and transactional data
• Performing thorough quality control measures to ensure accuracy
• Reporting findings to project team members
• Assisting in the preparation of client-ready deliverables

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics/Data Science, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or similar, from an accredited university or college
• Demonstration of leadership and initiative in academic, professional, or extracurricular setting
• Analytics and problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail, critical thinking skills and commitment to quality
• Strong written/verbal communication skills and interpersonal awareness
• Ability to distill and communicate (written or verbally) complex analytical methods and results into facts and insights for clients, counsel, and experts
• Able to quickly assimilate relevant information in unfamiliar situations and develop creative approaches and solutions necessary to resolve complex problems
• The ability to manage and prioritize your time and your team’s time, potentially against a backdrop of competing deadlines
• Must be eligible to work in the US without the need for sponsorship at any time in the future

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Preferred technical skills: SQL, Python, R and/or other programming languages to manipulate data stored in relational databases