Avesta - Associate Director - Senior Economist (7-15 yrs)

Experience: 7 - 15 years

Notice period: 60 Days (IF SERVING ONLY)

Job Location: Mumbai (Hybrid 3 days Work from Office)

Required Skills: Economic research, Global research, Analysing country risk & Country Risk research

Key Responsibilities:

- Carry out most state-of-the-art research across 132 countries.

- Write and edit country reports (US, Asia Pacific and global) with primary focus on credit performance of company in the country.

- Focus must be on analytical content.

- Front end with sales team for client discussion and bespoke opportunities.

- Work on custom consulting projects and provide support by creating content for company presentations, media interviews, and other thought leadership pieces.

- Proactively monitor changes in situation for assigned countries and regions to downgrade/upgrade.

- Provide ad hoc real-time analysis (rapid response reports) in response to data releases, and/or press requests.

- Collaborate across department/function, client and sales team to come up with product/solution cater to the need of customers.

- Collaborate and work with colleagues within Advanced Analytics to produce unique solutions that leverage proprietary Dun & Bradstreet data.

- Write analytical whitepaper/short report leveraging proprietary Dun & Bradstreet data on ongoing subject with reference to Dun & Bradstreet product.

- Write sectoral analysis country wise

- Work with analytics team and develop score for sectoral analysis across countries

Key Requirements:

- Masters (or PhD.) in Quantitative Economics.

- Around 15 years of experience in analyzing country risk within a business setting.

- Sales or related experience.

- Independently handling bespoke project opportunities

- Econometric modeling and forecasting skills geared towards Country Risk research is required

- Prior experience R or Python will be added advantage.

- Efficiency and speed in completing multiple assignments simultaneously.

- Good communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team environment.

- Ability to represent the team at company meetings and events, including customer facing ones.