WHAT YOU'LL DO
As a Senior Knowledge Analyst (SKA) within BCG’s Corporate Finance & Strategy practice (CFS) and its Center for CFO Excellence (CFOx) team, you will work in a growing global team, delivering value to clients in all aspects of CFO related products and opportunities, from value creation strategy to performance management, digital finance and lean/agile working culture in finance.
This would entail issues such as defining the role of the finance organization, transforming the finance function to be efficient & effective, control finance costs, ability to steer and make relevant decisions, enablement of value creation and the facilitation of corporate planning decisions, including measures to align corporate, financial and investor strategies.
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YOU'RE GOOD AT
Candidate should have experience and/or knowledge related to at least one of the following areas:
- Finance organization (including shared services), finance transformation, external and internal reporting, corporate governance, performance management, planning, budgeting and target setting, corporate risk management or similar.
- The SKA is expected to be familiar with financial and non-financial benchmarking analyses, including analyses regarding profitability, capital structure, liquidity, and cash flow performance.
- The candidate should have deep end to end expertise in at least 2 finance process towers such as Record to Report, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Financial Planning & Analysis, Cash & Banking / Treasury, Payroll, Fixed Assets, etc.
- As a Senior Knowledge Analyst on the Client-Focused track, the candidate will be deployed in client engagements with core consulting teams to identify and analyze client challenges, provide customized knowledge of best-in-class practices as domain expert, develop solutions to address critical client issues, and chart a path for the client to constantly enhance performance.
- The candidate is expected to demonstrate excellent communication, high-quality analytical skills, and ability to deliver client ready analyses and insights.
- The candidate will work also with topic team to collaborate, develop, and maintain new knowledge materials related to CFOx topic based on emerging trends and gaps identified by consulting teams.
- The candidate will collaborate across the topic to build tools, analyses, and insights to drive new ways of thinking and problem-solving.
YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)
- 1-2+ years of consulting experience in relevant sector/topic required; candidates with consulting experience strongly preferred
- In lieu of consulting experience, 2+ years minimum industry experience required; 3-6+ years of industry experience strongly preferred in at least one of the following areas: management consulting, financial management, controlling & reporting, treasury, accounting & audit, corporate development, corporate finance or other equivalent areas
- Master’s degree in business administration, corporate finance, accounting, mathematics etc. with very good academic achievements and / or CPA with a management consulting background
- Confident client presence and relationship-building skills
- Effective written & verbal communication
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong work ethic & service-oriented mind-set
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and credibility
- Collaborative team player and pro-active self-starter
- Ability to maintain discretion when needed
YOU'LL WORK WITH
Core Consulting Teams
- Staffed as topic champion along with core consulting teams in client engagements by bringing in core domain expertise
- Own and drive successful completion of a module in client projects
- Provide insight generation expertise during team discussions to frame and structure client issues
- Provide problem solving and solutioning to drive improvements across client organization
- Enhance client deliverables by conducting high-quality analyses and applying business judgement
- Suggests alternative or additional analyses to expand original scope and provide new insight
- Demonstrate good slide-writing and story-lining skills to generate client ready materials
- Concise, synthesized and confident during discussions with project teams, running workshops with client teams and presenting analysis & findings to clients
- Develop effective relationships with senior project leadership to build strong demand as a topic champion for repeat staffing
- Support proposal development by guiding consulting teams on transformation approach, BCG capabilities, past case credentials and experts
Topic Teams
- Build and update new topic-related customized knowledge products
- Control the consistency of knowledge management databases
- Reviews knowledge products and ensures they are current and relevant and updates when appropriate
- Writes abstracts and indexes for projects and practice documents
- Assisting in Practice Area intellectual capital development projects (studies, articles and other publications.
