McKinsey & Company

Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.

Your Impact

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.

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 spreadsheets.

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 synthesize the results
• Serve as point of contact for the S&CF practice, answering the requests from multiple intake channels

Your Growth

Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.

When you join us, you will have:

• Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
• A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
• Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children.

Your qualifications and skills

• Undergraduate degree; 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
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Strong proficiency in Excel and Power Point; 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 and team-orientation skills
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver on tight deadlines

Please review the additional requirements regarding essential job functions of McKinsey colleagues.

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