Specialist – Strategy & Corporate Finance
| Company | McKinsey & Company |
|---|---|
| Location | New York, NY, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- Undergraduate or master’s degree and 4+ years of work experience after completing your undergraduate degree
- 2+ years of strategy, corporate finance, M&A or due diligence experience in a consulting firm, investment bank, accounting firm or major corporation; experience in a corporate development or strategic finance is preferred
- Proficiency in financial analysis, including financial statement analysis, financial modeling, and risk assessment
- Intellectual curiosity, creative thinking and problem-solving mindset
- Adaptability and openness to collaborate in a flexible environment
- Sensitivity on social responsibility and ambition to have a real impact on clients and on our communities
- Analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
- Strong record of leadership in an academic, professional, or extracurricular setting
- Thoughtful, empathic and comfortable communicator
- Ability to communicate complex ideas in English, effectively, both verbally and in writing
Responsibilities
- Work in teams of typically 3-5 consultants, playing an active role in all aspects of client engagement
- Gather and analyze information, formulate and test hypotheses, and synthesize and communicate recommendations to leadership and the client
- Bring valuation principles and strategic thinking to each client situation
- Develop frameworks to analyze business problems using qualitative and quantitative approaches
- Work on financial benchmarking and business modeling to provide fact-based rationale for client’s strategic choices across organic and inorganic upside opportunities
- Create presentations and analytical materials related to each topic
- Conduct qualitative analysis to frame and solve conceptual problems through in-depth research and close collaboration with experts
- Utilize your expertise to develop insights & recommendations
- Own a workstream or a piece of a workstream overseeing junior colleagues
- Translate recommendations into pragmatic and realistic actions
- Collaborate well with client team members, motivating them to engage and contribute knowledge, capability and practice building
- Codify your own knowledge, effectively synthesizing and sharing expertise with colleagues
- Help the Strategy & Corporate Finance practice build cutting edge knowledge, concepts, frameworks, tools, and ideas and stay abreast of the latest thinking
- Support client development e.g. supporting proposals and contributing to white papers
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a corporate development or strategic finance is preferred