Strategy & Operations Associate

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.

We operate across the US, UK, and EU, through four fully staffed offices with a team of around 70 professionals.

About this Role

We are looking for a Strategy & Operations Associate to join us at an exciting point in our growth. This is a new, London-based role reporting to our Business Manager and working directly with the Chief Operating Officer and the wider executive team.

Fideres is scaling quickly, expanding internationally and diversifying how we win and deliver work. As we grow, we need dedicated capacity to run the business day to day and to think clearly about where it is going next. This role does both. You will take ownership of core operational, reporting and process-improvement work, and you will help the COO and Business Manager structure, pressure-test and move forward the strategic questions that shape the firm’s future.

It is a genuinely broad, generalist role with real exposure to senior decision-making. Early on, the balance will lean towards operational delivery and reporting; as you build knowledge of the business and earn trust, the strategic element will grow. We are looking for someone comfortable moving between the two, and equally happy rolling up their sleeves on the administrative and coordination work that keeps a fast-growing firm running.

Key Accountabilities

Working closely with the Business Manager and the COO, your responsibilities will span three connected workstreams: keeping the business running well, helping us think about where it goes next, and making sure things get done across both.

Operations & Performance

• Performance reporting and dashboards: build and maintain management reporting and dashboards that track performance against targets across the business, turning data into a clear picture for the executive team.
• Operational delivery: take ownership of recurring operational and reporting cycles, freeing up the Business Manager and COO to focus on higher-value work.
• Process improvement: work with business unit heads and department heads to understand, document and improve their processes and systems, helping each function work more efficiently as we scale.

Strategy & Planning

• Strategic analysis and planning: help the COO and executive team vet new business plans and ideas; structuring the thinking, building business cases and options analysis, and laying out clear plans that senior leadership can review, steer and progress.
• Board and partner materials: prepare clear, well-structured papers and analysis to support decision-making by the COO, executive team and founding partners.
• Research and market insight: carry out competitor, market and internal research to inform strategic and operational decisions.

Delivery & Coordination

• Project management: coordinate and drive forward cross-functional strategic initiatives, keeping them moving between the demands of day-to-day business.
• General coordination and administration: provide hands-on support across a range of business activities as required. This is a growing firm and a broad role, and the successful candidate will be comfortable turning their hand to administrative and coordination tasks alongside the analytical work.

Key Skills, Personal Attributes & Behaviours

The successful candidate will have:

• Experience: around 3-5 years of relevant experience, ideally including a period in management consulting or a comparable analytical, strategic or operational environment.
• Education: a strong academic background. An MBA is welcome but not essential; we are more interested in judgement, analytical ability and initiative than in any particular qualification.
• Analytical and structured thinking: the ability to take an ambiguous problem or a rough idea and structure it into a clear, well-reasoned plan that others can act on.
• Commercial and financial acumen: comfort working with financial and performance data, and a sound grasp of what drives business performance.
• Generalist versatility: a genuine willingness to move between strategic work and hands-on operational and administrative tasks, without needing everything to be one or the other.
• Interpersonal and communication skills: excellent written and verbal communication, and the ability to work effectively with colleagues at all levels, from analysts to founding partners.
• Attention to detail: strong attention to detail and a proactive, hands-on approach.
• Initiative and integrity: high integrity, a curious mindset, and the confidence to express opinions and propose solutions.
• Interest in our work: a genuine interest in addressing competition and financial markets wrongdoing.
• Language skills: proficiency in European languages is advantageous but not essential.

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 is 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.

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

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.

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.

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 [email protected].