Business Analyst

About McKinsey & Company 

The company is best known for its work in management consulting and business analysis. McKinsey & Company has helped many leading organizations make significant improvements in their performance. Some of McKinsey & Company's clients include Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, Walmart, and more. The company's primary functions are management consulting and business analysis.

Your role

• You will join one of the offices around the world to work in teams and directly with the company's clients. 
• In this role, you will help clients in the private, public, and social sectors solve some of their most pressing problems. 
• You will also work with a range of experts in the firm, from data scientists to researchers to software and app designers.

Your responsibilities

• You'll work in teams of typically 3 - 5 consultants to identify, and oftentimes implement, potential solutions for a specific client problem or challenge.
• Together, you will help clients make lasting improvements to their performance and realize their most important goals.
• Over the course of each project, you will gather and analyze information, formulate, and test hypotheses, and develop and communicate recommendations.
• You'll also present results to client management and implement recommendations in collaboration with client team members.
• In some cases, you will be asked to travel to your client site.

Training & development 

When you join McKinsey, you are joining a firm that will invest in your professional development. As a business analyst, you will receive training and coaching on how to better:

• Structure ambiguous problems and take action to solve them
• Synthesize clear takeaways from complex information into clear takeaways and recommendations using both qualitative and quantitative methods
• Work effectively with diverse teams to come up with the best solution and move people and organizations to act
• Establish trust-based relationships with clients to better serve their organizations 
• Communicate effectively with all audiences, including senior leaders, in a structured manner
• Develop your leadership style, leveraging your passions, strengths, and personal values

Benefits

Listed below are some benefits provided by the company,

• Health Insurance
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Long-term Disability Insurance
• Retirement & Financial Benefits
• Profit-Sharing
• Defined Contribution Pension Plan (Source: Ambition Box). 

Career progression

McKinsey believes in strengths-based development and coaching, and you’ll receive frequent mentoring from colleagues. This will include a senior colleague from your office or practice who will help you grow and achieve your career goals. Additionally, you will have a professional development manager who manages to staff to help you choose projects based on your priorities as well as the needs of client service teams.

• They view the business analyst position as the start of a rewarding, challenging, and highly flexible career with McKinsey.
• During your first few years with the firm, you will serve as a business analyst on multiple client engagements and work with several colleagues and clients in a range of industry and functional areas.  
• The company encourages you to explore different content areas or geographies through a year-long rotation with one of its practices (e.g., corporate finance, social sector, healthcare, operations) or global offices; many do this after two years as a generalist business analyst. 
• You will likely intersect with many elements of their firm’s work including digital, implementation, and tech and analytics capabilities – either by collaborating on teams or working with colleagues from these groups.
• Following your business analyst tenure, assuming good performance, you will move into a post-graduate school role. 
• Some business analysts will take advantage of the opportunity to get outside experience through a secondment (externship) with a private sector or social sector client with the firm’s support. 
• Others may choose to pursue graduate school with support from the firm.  

Work-life balance

They have flexible work timings and this is a desk job. Work days are usually from Monday to Friday with flexible work timings. This role is considered flexible and will be a mix of working from the office and home depending on your preferences and the arrangements determined by your future manager.

Culture & vibe

The company culture is very demanding, and the work can be challenging. However, McKinsey & Company offers a very stimulating and rewarding work environment. The company also has a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. People who would fit in well at McKinsey & Company are those who are intelligent, driven, and thrive in a fast-paced and challenging environment.

About you

To be an attractive candidate you must have the following qualification and desired key skills;

• Undergraduate degree or master’s degree or 1+ years of work experience after completing your undergraduate degree; Requirements may vary by country or practice
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team and create an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organization
• Capability to drive an independent workstream in the context of a broader team project
• Comfort with ambiguous, ever-changing situations
• Ability to break down and solve problems through quantitative thinking and analysis
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in English and local office language(s) 

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