Capabilities and Insights Analyst - Strategy and Corporate Finance

You’ll be based in our Shanghai office within the S&CF Insights team. S&CF Insights is McKinsey’s center of excellence in advanced analytics for Strategy and Corporate Finance. Its purpose is to empower teams with advanced, yet easy-to-use, analytical capabilities that can generate superior insights and transform client conversations. To this end, the Strategy & Corporate Finance practice, in conjunction with the McKinsey Global Institute, has assembled one of the world’s most sophisticated groups of experts, sets of databases, and analytical techniques.

S&CF Insights is a global team of finance experts and strategists that addresses clients’ questions about valuation and value creation. The center combines the best of McKinsey’s financial analysis capabilities, proprietary tools and insights, broad industry knowledge, and practical application perspectives.

The S&CF Insights has locations in New York; Gurgaon, India; Lisbon; Amsterdam; London and Costa Rica, Shanghai. We are currently recruiting candidates for our Shanghai location.

The role provides an unique opportunity to develop a career in Strategy & Corporate Finance, building from your prior academic and work experience. Over time, as the research analysts you will develop a solid grounding in core principles of corporate finance. As your career evolves, you will also start working with specialists, experts and senior leaders of the practice to help McKinsey teams identify and evaluate critical financial and strategic issues for discussions with senior client executives. You will be leveraging excel-based models, financial databases and research platforms to generate end products in the form of presentations, written summaries and spreadsheets.

Examples of specific activities for the role may include, but are not limited to:

Capabilities