Senior Associate Economist - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Role Objective:

As a Senior Associate Economist, you will lead the delivery of specific parts of the PSR's work programme, lead economic work streams and provide economic advice.

In this role you will:

You will work alongside other economists providing economic input into projects which could encompass any part of our work programme
You will draft documents and briefings to explain complex issues, often within tight timeframes and to noneconomists
You will work alongside lawyers, policy specialists, colleagues from our communications team as well as payment specialists
You will get opportunities to work with a wide variety of external stakeholders, including industry, government, other authorities, and consumer groups, to gather evidence, test policy options and explain our approach
You may be required to present policy options or strategy recommendations to the PSR's Steering Committees, Executive Committee and Board

Key Requirements:

Previous experience in economic analysis in at least one economic regulation, competition policy or microeconomic policy
A graduate or postgraduate qualification in economics or a related discipline
Pragmatic understanding of relevant economic theory and how it is applied in relation to regulatory work
Experience in economic analysis in the context of regulatory projects such as price controls, regulatory reviews, market studies, investigations, actions and appeals or similar
Comfortable collecting and using different forms of evidence to support economic analysis, with datahandling skills
Excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience in explaining technical economics to both other specialist economists and noneconomists in succinct messages, and the ability to present confidently to a variety of internal and externalstakeholders
An understanding of the wider impact of regulation on consumers and businesses, and the ability to look at issues from the perspective of the consumer
Experience in financial services or the payments sector
Experience in quantitative analysis such as detailed cost modelling or econometric analysis, potentially including experience in using statistical software packages

Company Overview:

How payments work affects the society we live in; behind these transactions are several important payment systems.

The PSR is an economic regulator of, and concurrent competition authority for, payment systems, their role is to hold the sector to accountin protecting people and businesses and promote competition and innovation in these systems and the markets that they support.

I look forward to hearing from you soon