McKinsey & Company

Who You'll Work With

You’ll be based in our Lisbon 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. Tim Koller, a world-class expert in the field and the lead author of Valuation and Value, is our group founder. The team is co-lead by Werner Rehm and Chris Mulligan, who work closely with our team of 90+ professionals across our global hubs.

The S&CF Insights has locations in New York; Gurgaon, India; Shanghai; Amsterdam; London and 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.

What You'll Do

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: 

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

Qualifications

• University degree from a reputable institution 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 
• Superb 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