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Capabilities & Insights Analyst - Strategy and Corporate Finance

Job ID: 92596
  • San Jose
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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 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, 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. Tim Koller, a world-class expert in the field and the lead author of Valuation and Value, is our group founder.
The S&CF Insights has locations in New York; Gurgaon, India; Lisbon, Amsterdam, Costa Rica, and Shanghai.

Your impact within our firm

The role provides an unique opportunity to develop a career in Strategy & Corporate Finance, building from your prior academic and work experience. Over time, research analysts will develop a solid grounding in core principles of corporate finance. You will be 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 spreasheets.
 Examples of specific activities for the role may include, but are not limited to:
 
• Analyze the performance of companies in capital markets
• Assess the financial performance of companies using growth, margins, returns and leverage ratios
• Conduct outside-in valuation diagnostics using discounted cash flows (DCF) and valuation multiples
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative research on Strategy & Corporate Finance topics and sinthethize the results
• Serve as point of contact for the S&CF practice, answering the requests from multiple intake channels

Your qualifications and skills

• University degree from a reputable institution with an outstanding academic record; postgraduate degree in business administration, accounting,   finance, or related fields preferred.
• Up to 2 years of relevant working experience in corporate finance or related areas such as financial analysis and modeling.
• Proficiency in Excel and Power Point is instrumental for this role; 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.
• Strong people skills, strong team-orientation, and a professional attitude.
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver on tight deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, including the ability to interact effectively at all levels of a large international organization.

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  • Financial Services
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Job Skill Group - N/A
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
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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