Senior Finance Analyst - Finance Insights

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Who You'll Work With You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact. In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference. 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. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Exceptional benefits In addition to a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children. Your Impact McKinsey & Company is looking to hire an experienced professional into our Finance Insights Team (FIT). This is an internal, non-client-facing role, though FIT manages itself using the same leading-edge approaches, tools, techniques, and processes that we bring to our clients. FIT is responsible for leveraging and disseminating performance management reports and tools, digitized in most cases, as a means to identify action-oriented growth opportunities, prioritization, leakage and Opex management to name a few. FIT team members aspire to engage as business partners to various stakeholders including cell leaders, Finance leadership and functional managers leading and/or playing integral roles in planning, forecasting, analyzing of key economic drivers, cost redesign, action-oriented management analysis and various other high-profile special projects to support senior leadership decision-making. In this role, you’ll identify insights and trends from performance management reports to provide concise synthesis and commentary and assist in follow-on ad hoc data analysis as required. By default, you will leverage and disseminate from a suite of digital offerings when engaged in performance management, forecasting, financial and variance analysis, KPIs or ad-hoc requests, while creatively leveraging the firm’s data warehouse (SAP/SAC) as needed. You will play an integral part in the firms annual planning process including staff size/headcount, Opex, pricing, utilization and client hours growth to name a few. You will engage with cell leaders, working to provide recommendations that help achieve their goals, while being an active and engaged contributor to the broader global FIT community. Your Qualifications and Skills 4-year college degree preferably in the area of finance, preferably a qualified Chartered Accountant or MBA 2+ years of work experience with exposure to various areas of finance – generally in a role where you have demonstrated the ability to work effectively in teams or as an individual contributor, strong problem solving and analytical skills Good reporting/analytics background and experience of a professional firm's economics Sound knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint); experience on efficient data management, programing skills (VBA), and knowledge of reporting tools (Alteryx, Tableau, SAP/SAC) would all be an advantage A strong commitment to excellence, personal and professional growth and an eagerness to learn and develop in multiple areas; open mindset towards change and engagement for continuous improvement Strong analytical mindset; excellent problem-solving skills with ability to structure ambiguous problems with little guidance; strong organizational skills; detail orientation coupled with the ability to see big-picture trends; ability to thrive under pressure Confidence in communicating with various levels of authority throughout the business (good communication skills to tailor messages across various mediums) Experience in supporting management and leadership by providing insight, analysis and financial results for review is a plus Experience in dynamic model building and design a plus Experience working directly with and engaging with Senior leadership, cell/BU leaders as a thought and strategy partner Show more Show less