About the Firm

Secretariat professionals are trusted in the highest-stakes legal, risk, and regulatory matters around the world. When you join Secretariat, you become part of a rapidly growing elite team of bright minds and passionate problem-solvers. Your skills and expertise will be utilized from day one, working with leading law firms, corporations, and institutions to answer complex questions that shape critical financial, economic, and strategic business decisions.

Our globally integrated teams are united by the ambition, energy, and commitment they bring to every challenge. We foster an open, collaborative culture that supports ongoing professional development, recognition, and opportunity.

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About Our Damages & Valuations Team

Our Damages & Valuations professionals advise clients and counsel on complex commercial disputes involving financial, economic, valuation, and damages issues. The team develops and evaluates economic evidence, quantifies damages, conducts valuations, tests financial theories, and prepares analyses that support clients throughout the dispute resolution process. This reflects Secretariat’s current positioning of the practice around commercial damages, valuations, and clearly supported economic evidence.

As a Senior Associate in our Chicago office, you will work closely with senior professionals and testifying experts on sophisticated commercial disputes across a variety of industries. The role provides significant exposure to the intersection of finance, accounting, economics, valuation, and legal principles.

Responsibilities

Depending on experience and the needs of each engagement, responsibilities will include:

• Conduct economic, financial, accounting, company, and industry research.
• Analyze complex financial and non-financial information and identify issues relevant to the quantification of economic damages and valuation.
• Develop and review financial models, forecasts, valuation analyses, and other quantitative analyses.
• Assist with the preparation of expert reports addressing economic damages and other financial issues.
• Assist with rebuttal analyses evaluating the methodologies, assumptions, and conclusions of opposing experts.
• Analyze damages claims involving areas such as lost profits, reasonable royalties, unjust enrichment, diminution in value, and other measures of economic loss.
• Work with large and complex datasets to identify relevant trends and develop supportable conclusions.
• Summarize findings and communicate analyses clearly to engagement teams, clients, and counsel.
• Assist with preparation for depositions, hearings, arbitrations, and trials.
• Manage the day-to-day requirements of multiple engagements and workstreams.
• Review the work of junior professionals and provide guidance and feedback.
• Collaborate with colleagues across Secretariat's domestic and international offices.

The core Senior Associate responsibilities in Secretariat’s existing description include financial and industry research, analysis of financial and non-financial information, expert and rebuttal reports, client/counsel communication, trial and hearing preparation, multiple-engagement management, and review of junior staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related quantitative discipline from an accredited university or college.
• 2-4+ years of relevant professional experience, preferably involving economic damages, valuation, litigation consulting, or other financial/economic analysis. Secretariat’s current Senior Associate template uses 2-4 years as the experience benchmark.
  Highly proficient with Microsoft Office products, particularly Excel and PowerPoint as well as data management and analytic skills for large datasets.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills with demonstrated ability to work through complex financial and economic issues.
• Experience developing financial models and analyzing financial statements and other business data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex concepts clearly and concisely.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced, project-based environment.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of collaborative engagement teams.
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Office products, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• CPA, CFA, ABV, CFF, or other relevant professional credential, or progress toward a credential, is a plus.
• Working proficiency in a second non-English language is a plus.
• Ability to travel as needed.
• Authorized to work in the US without need for sponsorship in the future.