Analyst - Economics and Disputes - Competition Economics

KPMG
London - United Kingdom
S: Competitive

Introduction to the team

KPMG's Competition Economics team advises on all aspects of competition policy across a variety of industries.
Recent and ongoing engagements include market investigations by the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Financial Conduct Authority; merger investigations by the CMA and the European Commission; State Aid investigations by the European Commission; advice to companies through other inquiries under UK and European competition law; advice to companies through disputes in a number of jurisdictions, including North America; and competition compliance reviews.
Our team of competition economists works closely with leading academic advisors, also drawing on in-depth sector knowledge from experts within the KPMG network, to deliver high quality economic advice to our clients. Our competition economists have joined KPMG with diverse professional backgrounds, including from niche economic consultancies, competition authorities, academia or straight out of university.

KPMG's Competition Economics team, is part of the broader Economics & Disputes ("E&D”) practice.
E&D sits within KPMG Forensic, and is part of KPMG's Risk Consulting group.

The highly successful E&D practice at KPMG is looking to accelerate its recent growth. The team, largely based in London but now also expanding internationally, provides economic advice to clients across a broad range of engagements.
The E&D practice spans a number of functional areas, with core skills ranging from competition economics, econometrics, regulatory strategy, cost modelling, applied macro- and micro-economics, pricing, regulatory finance and accounting, professional negligence, disputes and forensic transaction services.
Although many of our service lines work across all sectors, we also have specialist focuses on sectors including telecoms, post, energy and utilities, financial services, transport, healthcare, professional services, tobacco
and lotteries and will continue to expand.
The team typically works with clients at board level, offering interesting and varied work, and the opportunity to earn substantial rewards by expanding our successful practice in the UK and across Europe.

Roles and Responsibilities

We are looking for highly motivated outstanding economists to join our E&D team, in particular in the area of competition economics.

Successful applicants will:

- Be a key member of our well-established team, delivering high quality economic advice to our clients on all aspects of competition policy.
- Prepare quantitative and qualitative evidence, to provide insight and value to our clients.
- Support business development activities within the team.
- Liaise regularly with the wider Economics & Disputes team in terms of lessons learned from client engagements and where good practice/methodologies could be cascaded.

Qualifications and Skills

Candidates should be able to demonstrate the following qualifications and skills:

- Top academic qualifications in economics, with a focus on industrial economics and/or microeconometrics, from a leading institution (postgraduate degree in Economics is highly desirable but not necessary).
- Excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing.
- An ability to explain complex economics clearly to non-economists, and apply economic concepts and techniques to real world situations.
- Perfect command of English. Fluency in other languages desirable but not necessary.
- Experience and/or qualifications in quantitative techniques/econometrics highly desirable.
- Knowledge of competition law and/or regulatory regimes desirable but not necessary.
- Experience (e.g. internships) of working as an applied economist desirable but not necessary.
- An ability to work to tight deadlines and to produce deliverables of consistently high quality.
- An ability to work as part of a team.

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