Summer Analyst/Associate Intern – Financial Consulting

Job Description

Accounting/Business/Finance Consulting Analyst/Associate Intern (Summer 2027) | Charles River Associates

The Tone:
This is an internship at Charles River Associates, located in Boston, Chicago, Houston, and New York, with a hybrid work model. Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that provides economic, financial, and business management expertise to major law firms, corporations, and governments worldwide. This role offers an immersive analyst experience, allowing interns to contribute to live client consulting projects and gain a deep understanding of the firm’s operations, with the potential for a full-time offer upon graduation. The program focuses on professional development, wellness support, and social engagement within a collegial work environment.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid, New York, NY
• Pay: $30–$37.5 hourly
• Team: Collaborates with PhD-trained economists, finance, and accounting professionals.
• Mission: Deliver live client consulting projects and gain an understanding of the business through project work.
• Tech Stack: Excel, Stata, R, Python, SQL, SAS

What You’ll Actually Do
• Collaborate: Work alongside talented and diverse colleagues, including PhD-trained economists, finance and accounting professionals, and valuation experts.
• Research: Conduct economic and industry research while analyzing client materials to build an understanding of case issues.
• Analyze: Perform and develop financial and economic analyses or valuation models to support case theories and present those results to colleagues and clients.
• Program: Program, build models, and perform regression analyses using languages such as Excel, Stata, R, Python, SQL, or SAS.
• Investigate: Investigate accounting irregularities, respond to allegations of fraud, misconduct, waste, and abuse, and analyze financial evidence to identify trends and anomalies.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree candidates graduating in December 2027/Summer 2028 with an academic focus in Accounting, Business, Finance, or a related area.
• Experience: Experience in gathering, standardizing, and analyzing voluminous transactional data, along with data analysis and intelligence gathering, including querying and mining large data sets.
• Skills: Solid working knowledge of finance, accounting, and economic methodologies; command of a broad range of research and quantitative analysis skills (including strong Excel skills); familiarity with generally accepted accounting principles, corporate governance, and regulatory environments.
• Bonus: Demonstrated high level of initiative and leadership; curious and analytical thinkers who bring creative approaches to non-standard problems; clear and demonstrated interest in consulting through coursework, work experience, activities, or recruiting events.