Research Science Analyst, Finalta
Apply NowCompany: McKinsey & Company
Location: Chicago, IL 60629
Description:
Your Growth
You will work in our Chicago office with our Finalta team.
Building on more than twenty years' experience working with leading banks and insurers, Finalta combines performance benchmark data and best-practice knowledge from 250 financial institutions in over 50 countries to generate insights on how to achieve superior performance.
Annual benchmarking provides clients with a unique management tool to objectively assess performance against peers and quantify opportunities for improvement.
Our best-practice cases illustrate how to close performance gaps and give clients a roadmap to reach world-class performance while reducing the time, cost, and risk of change.
Your Impact
You will work within a small project team to analyze data, evaluate results, generate actionable insights and recommendations and deliver these to your clients.
In this role, you will be given high levels of responsibility from the start, liaising with our clients to gather data, conduct research and perform quantitative analysis.
You will be working with our team that covers our banking clients and will have the opportunity to travel to client sites across North America.
Please note that this role does not involve long periods working on a single client site. Our projects typically run for 6 months, therefore you will become an expert in the data and topic.
Your qualifications and skills
You will work in our Chicago office with our Finalta team.
Building on more than twenty years' experience working with leading banks and insurers, Finalta combines performance benchmark data and best-practice knowledge from 250 financial institutions in over 50 countries to generate insights on how to achieve superior performance.
Annual benchmarking provides clients with a unique management tool to objectively assess performance against peers and quantify opportunities for improvement.
Our best-practice cases illustrate how to close performance gaps and give clients a roadmap to reach world-class performance while reducing the time, cost, and risk of change.
Your Impact
You will work within a small project team to analyze data, evaluate results, generate actionable insights and recommendations and deliver these to your clients.
In this role, you will be given high levels of responsibility from the start, liaising with our clients to gather data, conduct research and perform quantitative analysis.
You will be working with our team that covers our banking clients and will have the opportunity to travel to client sites across North America.
Please note that this role does not involve long periods working on a single client site. Our projects typically run for 6 months, therefore you will become an expert in the data and topic.
Your qualifications and skills
- Bachelor's degree/master's degree in a related field
- 18+ months of experience in data analytics, strategy, financial services or consultancy
- Strong analytical skills and problem-solving capabilities
- Great interpersonal communication skills; exceptional ability in writing and client-management
- Ability to manage your time to produce high quality work according to deadlines
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal