Capabilities & Insights Analyst - Strategy and Corporate Finance
McKinsey & Company
IT, Accounting & Finance
San Jose, CA, USA
Posted on Oct 22, 2024
Capabilities & Insights Analyst - Strategy and Corporate Finance
Job ID: 92596
Do you want to do work that matters, alongside supportive leaders who will help you grow faster than you ever thought possible? Are you a creative problem-solver who is energized by challenges? You’ve come to the right place.
Who You'll Work With
You’ll be based in our San Jose office within the Strategy & Corporate Finance (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), Shanghai, Amsterdam, London, San Jose (Costa Rica), and now Lisbon.
When you join McKinsey, you are joining a firm whose culture is distinctive and inclusive. We will accelerate your development as a leader to create positive, enduring change in the world.
Your impact within our firm
You will have a unique opportunity to develop a career in Strategy & Corporate Finance, building from your prior academic and work experience.
Over time, 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:
- Serving as point of contact for the S&CF practice, answering the requests from multiple intake channels
- Conducting qualitative and quantitative research on Strategy & Corporate Finance topics and synthetize the results
- Conducting outside-in valuation diagnostics using discounted cash flows (DCF) and valuation multiples
- Assessing the financial performance of companies using growth, margins, returns and leverage ratios
- Analyze the performance of companies in capital markets
Your qualifications and skills
- University degree with an outstanding academic record; postgraduate degree in business administration, accounting, finance, or related fields preferred
- 2+ years of relevant working experience in corporate finance or related areas such as financial analysis and modeling
- Proficiency in Excel is instrumental for this role; knowledge of analytical tools (e.g., Alteryx, Tableau, R, Python, SQL); understanding of statistics/analytics is a plus but not required
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and quantitative skills, as well as curiosity and a passion for research
- Interest in the corporate finance domain with intermediate/advanced content knowledge
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, including the ability to interact effectively at all levels of a large international organization
Please review the additional requirements regarding essential job functions of McKinsey colleagues.
FOR U.S. APPLICANTS: McKinsey & Company is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
FOR NON-U.S. APPLICANTS: McKinsey & Company is an Equal Opportunity employer. For additional details regarding our global EEO policy and diversity initiatives, please visit our McKinsey Careers and Diversity & Inclusion sites.
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Job Skill Code - CIAN - Capabilities and Insights Analyst
Function - Strategy & Corporate Finance
Industry - Financial Services
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Job Skill Code - CIAN - Capabilities and Insights Analyst
Function - Strategy & Corporate Finance
Industry - Financial Services
Post to LinkedIn - Yes
Posted to LinkedIn Date - Tue Aug 15 00:00:00 GMT 2023
LinkedIn Posting City - San Jose
LinkedIn Posting State/Province -
LinkedIn Posting Country - Costa Rica
LinkedIn Job Title - Capabilities & Insights Analyst - Strategy and Corporate Finance
LinkedIn Function - Consulting;Finance
LinkedIn Industry - Financial Services;Management Consulting;Research
LinkedIn Seniority Level - Mid-Senior level