Consultant (Financial Analyst)

About the Role

DB E.C.O. North America, a specialized rail and transit consultancy, seeks a Financial Analyst to support economic, financial, and business analyses for transportation, rail, transit, and infrastructure projects. This role is not tied to a single client or program and will support multiple projects and internal business needs within a consulting environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Support economic, financial, and business case analyses for transportation, rail, transit, and infrastructure projects.
• Develop and maintain cost estimates, financial models, forecasts, affordability assessments, and scenario analyses.
• Conduct life-cycle cost, sensitivity, risk, and investment analyses.
• Collect, validate, clean, and analyze financial, operational, market, and project-related data from diverse sources.
• Perform quality checks on models, calculations, assumptions, and source data.
• Prepare analytical inputs for grant applications, funding proposals, financing strategies, and investment plans.
• Conduct market research, benchmarking, and comparative analyses.
• Create tables, charts, dashboards, visualizations, and descriptive text to communicate analytical results.
• Contribute to reports, presentations, business cases, proposals, and briefings for clients and internal stakeholders.
• Support project financial monitoring, including budgets, forecasts, variances, and management reporting.
• Support internal commercial analyses, including project budgets, fee estimates, utilization, and profitability considerations.
• Develop and improve analytical tools, models, templates, databases, and methodologies.
• Document assumptions, data sources, methodologies, limitations, and recommendations.
• Collaborate with internal teams and client stakeholders.
• Manage assigned analyses independently, prioritize tasks, and deliver high-quality work within agreed schedules.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Microsoft Excel (financial modeling, data analysis, structured documentation of assumptions)
• Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word)

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Accounting, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
• Bachelor's degree with 3+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated quantitative, analytical, and data modeling skills.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present analytical findings to varied audiences.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments.
• Self-directed, dependable, and able to work independently with limited supervision while contributing effectively to a team.

Preferred Skills And Experience

• Cost estimating, financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, or business case development.
• Experience in public transportation, rail, transit, infrastructure, engineering, or management consulting.
• Experience with public-sector projects, transportation agencies, infrastructure owners, or public funding programs.
• Experience with procurement, pricing, grants, funding, financing, or commercial analysis.
• Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python, R, and/or other data analytics and visualization tools.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams and preparing client-facing deliverables.

Working Conditions and Travel

• Minimal overnight travel by land and air.
• Physical Requirements:
• Ability to work at a computer workstation for periods up to 4 hours at a time.
• Ability to speak on the telephone for a total of up to 3 hours per day.
• Ability to sit for up to 3 hours without breaks at meetings.
• Ability to walk and stand for up to 4 hours without breaks at program site visits and meetings.

Compensation and Benefits

• Annual gross salary between $98,000 and $113,000 + bonus (USD).
• U.S. Health & Wellness Benefits: Medical Insurance, Dental & Vision, Health Savings & Flexible Spending Accounts, Life & AD&D Insurance, Short-term, and Long-term Disability (Company-paid), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Commuter Benefits, Parental Paid Leave, Supplemental Coverage options, Retirement Savings (401k) with company contributions, Vacation & Holidays.
• Canada Health & Wellness Benefits: Company-paid benefits program including Basic Life Insurance, AD&D, Dependent Life Insurance, Long-Term Disability, extended Health and Dental coverage, EAP. Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) subsidy (5% of basic salary), competitive vacation time, and 11 paid company holidays.