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Employee Highlight: Sokpove Phang, Consultant

Sokpove has extensive experience managing different project scopes. Her current portfolio includes creating reward systems and incentives for project-based work, designing standard operating procedures for medium-sized enterprise, and developing business plan including financial projection. She really enjoys the project complexities as that allows her to grow professionally.   Sokpove rejoined EMC in 2019 after working two years for a private equity firm specializing in the energy industry. There, she learned a lot in her role, from researching potential investments until portfolio monitoring. However, she also missed the opportunity to support companies...

Learning Culture at EMC

Soty is currently the Finance Manager at EMC. His work involves cashflow management and financial reporting. Additionally, he works closely with the management team to improve the business operations and to develop strategic planning. He brings to the team his financial specialization and from the team, he is learning important soft skills such as leadership, communication, and problem-solving.   Soty completed his professional degree with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) in 2020 and is currently pursuing another degree with the Chartered Global...

Recruiting for Senior Consultants, Consultant, and Assistant in Finance and Admin

  Overview of Emerging Markets Consulting (EMC) EMC is a consulting and investment advisory firm that brings international best practices to private and development sectors in Southeast Asia. We offer our clients and partners an unparalleled combination of international expertise and extensive local knowledge.   Job Descriptions Please find our detailed job descriptions in the links below: Senior Consultant, Financial Advisory - Private Sector Strategic Partnerships Senior Consultant, Digital Consulting - Private Sector Strategic Partnerships Consultant - International Business Assistant, Finance & Admin - Finance, Commercial and Administration   Applications  EMC is committed to diversity and inclusion within...

EMC Vigilant Against COVID-19

Dear Clients and Business Partners, Emerging Markets Consulting (EMC) continues to diligently monitor developments concerning the impact of COVID-19. At EMC, the health and safety of our colleagues, clients, partners, and the communities in which we operate are a high priority. We have an eighteen-year legacy of responsible business, and we are committed to doing everything we can to ensure the wellbeing and safety of all our stakeholders. At the onset of the outbreak of COVID-19, we took immediate measures...

EMC Vigilant Against COVID-19

Dear Clients and Business Partners, Emerging Markets Consulting (EMC) continues to diligently monitor developments concerning the impact of COVID-19. At EMC, the health and safety of our colleagues, clients, partners, and the communities in which we operate are a high priority. We have an eighteen-year legacy of responsible business, and we are committed to doing everything we can to ensure the wellbeing and safety of all our stakeholders. At the onset of the outbreak of COVID-19, we took immediate measures across the...

The COVID-19 pandemic could have pushed up to half of Lao migrant workers in Thailand out of work

We knew the COVID-19 in Lao PDR and Thailand, and the subsequent lockdown would be difficult for workers and their families.  However, we had hoped the impact of the pandemic would not be this severe. We at Emerging Markets Consulting have been working on ways to estimate the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on migrant workers in Lao PDR and Thailand on behalf of the International Organization for Migration. It is a complicated task, with few precedents in the research literature. The results,...

Senior Consultants Position – Digital Consulting & Financial Consulting

Emerging Markets Consulting (EMC) is currently seeking enthusiastic, ambitious, and value-driven candidates to join our team as a Senior Consultant in Digital Consulting and a Senior Consultant in Financial Consulting in the Corporate & SME Advisory team in EMC Cambodia. The positions are full-time position which offers significant growth opportunities. Senior Consultants in EMC typically lead and manage teams to deliver client-based and internal consulting projects simultaneously. The positions provide opportunities to apply existing analytical and management skills and experience and, at the same time, rapidly acquire and diversify...

Career in Consulting by Bunhourng

“Being a fresh graduate has never been easy; I have been there, done that, myself. So, I understand it’s quite frustrating to know your passion because “you don't know what you don’t know, and you don't know what’s good is good until you encounter one”. It is quite challenging to land on the right job in the first time.” What are some opportunities the fresh graduates can get and develop at EMC? There are a lot of value propositions EMC could provide to fresh graduates....

Administration & Finance Assistant Position

Emerging Markets Consulting is a strategic management and private sector development consulting firm with offices in Cambodia and Laos. EMC brings international best practices to the private and development sectors in Southeast Asia by offering our clients an unparalleled combination of international expertise and extensive local knowledge.  We are currently seeking a candidate to join our team with following position in the Cambodia office. This position is full-time and offers significant growth and travel opportunities.  Administrative/Finance Assistant, Roles and Responsibilities:    Administrative Responsibilities:   Perform admin support function for projects including printing, photocopying and filing  Assist with company’s...

Lyly’s Professional Journey

Lyly is a Senior Business Analyst in the SME & Corporate Advisory team. She started at EMC in June 2020 as a Junior Business Analyst and was promoted immediately following her internship period. She holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Business Administration from American University of Phnom Penh (AUPP) and University of Arizona. We sat down (virtually) with Lyly to discuss about her experience. So why EMC? I’m at EMC because I’m interested in consulting. I want a job that is interesting and...

Vannaro’s Reflection on Community Engagement

Vannaro joined EMC in May 2020 as a Business Analyst in the SME & Corporate Advisory team. He holds two degrees – Accounting & Finance from CamEd Business School and International Economies from Institute of Foreign Languages. He enjoys spending time at coffee shop. His favorite spot is the Gloria Jean’s in CamKo City. In his spare time, he loves volunteering with youth groups and playing football with friends. In March 2019, Vannaro was selected as a member in cohort 7...

Business Analyst Positions for International Business and SME & Corporate Teams

Emerging Markets Consulting (EMC) is currently seeking Cambodian candidates to join our team as a Business Analyst in the Cambodia office. This position is full-time and offers significant growth opportunities; a large proportion of EMC analysts receive scholarships for postgraduate studies at top universities overseas. EMC is a strategic management and development consulting firm that brings international best practices to the private and development sectors in Southeast Asia by offering our clients an unparalleled combination of international expertise and extensive local...

Stronger Together, EMC and Cambodia in the Time of Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to ravage Cambodia with the new wave of outbreak causing significant increase in number of cases and deaths. As of April 20, 2021, Cambodia recorded more than 7,000 cases and over 50 deaths. For the first time since the start of the pandemic in 2020, the capital city Phnom Penh is in lockdown in an effort to curb the spread. While this presents unprecedented challenges, here at Emerging Markets Consulting (EMC), we understand and respect the decision. It...

COVID: Using CATI for data collection in Cambodia

EMC recently commissioned a quantitative survey of 200 smallholder farmers in four provinces via CATI (computer assisted telephone interviewing). The survey was one element of a larger feasibility study EMC conducted for investors in the financial services sector. We had originally planned typical face to face interviews, but the impact of COVID travel restrictions, shortly after the project commenced made this impossible. Face-to-face interviews have been the familiar method for primary data collection in surveys, and CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing) is...

Cham Language, Literature and Literacy

EMC and Breogan Consulting are currently on the 4th iteration of our Cambodian - Cham language literacy program. This blog is a brief summary of the work and achievements. The Cham Heritage Expansion (CHE) program  involves the standardization of the written form, production of variety of Cham language training materials and text books, other literature, design and implementation of teacher and student training. The teaching program takes place outside state school hours in parallel to the state school system, and thus...

Recruitment of Children into Armed Groups in Conflict-Affected Areas

The recruitment of children into armed forces in Myanmar has been one of the most tragic consequences of the conflict in rural areas, aggravated by socioeconomic factors and the pressure on non-state actors to recruit members. Armed opposition groups operating in Southern Shan State have been known to recruit children, according to several independent reports. EMC research – commissioned by the ILO – is contributing to the ongoing effort to help children previously associated with armed conflict and to prevent the recruitment...

Thanks for a successful 2016

A big thank you to all our clients and partners in 2016. During the year EMC worked on 80 projects, for around 40 various investors, development partners and government clients. We covered a broad number of thematic areas across business consulting, economic & social research, private sector development and  evaluations. Some notable highlights included: Field research team in China International work. EMC continued to do more work outside our core markets of Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar – in 2016 this included Indonesia, China, Bangladesh, Rwanda,...