Fideres
Senior Financial Economist (Experienced)
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About Us
Fideres delivers effective economic analysis and testimony, turning data into courtroom advantage. As global litigation experts, we help law firms secure new cases and offer unbiased, conflict-free insights for complex and innovative disputes. Driven by rigorous analysis, we empower justice—for all—from case strategy to victory.
By dedicating ourselves solely to litigation-based economic analysis, we can provide truly unbiased assessments and maintain our commitment to objectivity.
Our Competition litigation consulting team has provided expert opinions on major antitrust legal actions against Big Tech (including Apple, Amazon, and Facebook), Big Pharma, Big Finance, and Big Agriculture. Meanwhile, our original and innovative investigations into river sewage and Covid-19 have led to national press coverage.
Our Financial and Securities Litigation team has worked on many of the most significant global cases involving securities fraud, market manipulation, and financial cartels of the past decade, contributing expert opinions, and advising global law firms, institutional investors, and regulators.
About this Role
We are looking for a professional with a background in economics, statistics, or other quantitative disciplines, to join our team of Financial Economists and make a positive impact on the global financial market from day one.
This role will work in a project team bringing advanced quantitative and data-driven techniques to highly complex disputes involving financial markets and securities litigation.
Key Accountabilities
The Senior Financial Economist will manage securities and financial projects that require econometric, statistical, or more quantitative analysis techniques.
Some notable responsibilities include:
- Conducting detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of market manipulation allegations as part of the delivery of Fideres' expert consulting mandates
- Taking responsibility for the management, timely delivery, and overall quality of financial and securities consultancy projects
- Managing day-to-day client engagement activities, including managing the project scope, timeline, and budget
- Coming up with new and improved solutions to problems and projects, along with ways to strengthen the quality of our analysis
- Writing comprehensive reports that summarize the key findings of our analysis in a simple, succinct manner
- Verbally presenting key findings to clients in a manner that allows them to understand both the results and how they impact their own clients
- Communicating with clients and stakeholders in a timely, clear, and concise manner
- Contributing to the overall success of the firm's business development plans, and participating in client pitches
- Mentoring and supporting the team, and identifying internal training needs
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Key Skills and Attributes
The successful candidate will have:
- A keen interest in financial markets and a strong belief in fair and transparent markets
- Proven relevant experience in a sector regulator, or in a consulting/financial services environment
- Experience of dealing directly with clients (ideally law firms and regulators)
- A strong record of academic achievement with a relevant degree(s) in economics, financial economics, statistics, or other quantitative subjects (data analysis, mathematics, etc.)
- Proficiency with data analysis software and programming experience (e.g., Python, R, Excel). Experience of database programs (e.g., SQL, Postgres) is a plus
- Hands-on work experience in managing data-heavy projects, complex/big data manipulation, management, and analysis
- Strong writing skills, and experience of writing reports and presentations
- Strong project organizational skills, able to meet deadlines
- Enjoys building strong relationships with clients and stakeholders. Has the ability to explain complex concepts, quantitative results, and their implications to non-specialists
- Enjoys coaching and developing the team
- Integrity, and a creative, curious mind
- A high level of accountability, and not afraid to express and opinion and offer new solutions
Why Fideres
Fideres's vision is to become the leader in litigation-only economic consulting globally, free of corporate conflicts.
Following years of growth, over the past two years, Fideres has started to expand internationally and we now have offices established in London, New York, Rome, and Madrid. We plan to open an office in Australia and to grow our presence in France and Germany.
We are looking for candidates, who are committed to Fideres's strategy and values, and who are willing to grow in this phase of our company's expansion.
What We Offer
You will get to work in a highly innovative environment where training and development are put at the top of the agenda to ensure that our staff are at the leading edge of their academic knowledge, and where rapid career progression is available to proactive employees who reach out for opportunities.
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We offer competitive salaries and bonuses, and competitive benefits.
We are proud of our values and our diverse and international workforce, and we are committed to building a working environment where employees feel safe, welcome, and able to have an open and respectful dialogue on diversity issues.
Our Benefits
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Transparent Pay We have a transparent and internally published pay structure by role, we do this as part of an equal pay initiative across our offices.
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Continuous Learning We offer all our employees a learning and development budget to spend flexibly on role-relevant training needs. Support for further professional qualifications, apprenticeships, and further education is also available. There is no risk of being pigeon-holed at Fideres as our employees are able to reach for opportunities as they see them without being restricted by corporate bureaucracy.
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Benefits We offer all normal standard benefits such as a competitive holiday allowance with the opportunity to purchase 10 days additional holiday, monthly social events, private medical insurance, a gym subsidy, equal family leave for all employees, along with other benefits.
Application Process
Applying
To apply, you will need to send us your CV and cover letter via the application form below. Please note that we consider a thoughtful and well-considered cover letter to be an integral part of our application process.
Pre-Interview Assessments
Depending on the role you are applying for, you may be asked to complete a pre-interview assessment relevant to the role. This allows us to see if you have some of the necessary technical skills required for the role, and it can also give you an idea of some of the skills that would be required.
Interviews
For the majority of our roles, we have a three-stage interview process. The main purpose of our interviews is to further assess your technical skills, your communication skills (team and client), and make sure that you have sufficiently researched what we do and the role itself. More generally, it is a chance for us to get to know each other better.
A typical interview process would look a bit like this:
- First Interview: Technical with a team member
- Second Interview: Cultural fit interview
- Final Interview: Technical interview
Questions
If you have any questions about our process, please contact us at careers@fideres.com.
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