What You’ll Do
As a Senior Analyst – BCG Vantage on our Client Focus path within BCG's Zero-Based Transformation (ZBT) topic, you will work in a growing global team, providing functional expertise and insights, working together with BCG case and proposal teams to deliver expert Zero-Based Transformation advisory to our clients. This will also include case delivery support and the creation of customized knowledge assets.
You’ll be deployed in client engagements with core consulting teams, actively engaging with clients to understand their needs, developing tailored solutions, and presenting insights and recommendations with clarity and confidence. In addition, you will support business development, go-to-market efforts and development of intellectual property & knowledge assets of the ZBT business, as opportunities arise, contributing to research and analysis & marketing efforts.
ZBT is a fast-growing sub-unit within CFS that supports CEOs, CFO's and leaders to win the “next game”-and how to maximize value creation while doing it. ZBT provides the visibility needed to rigorously review and challenge ways of working and ultimately resetting the cost base in a way that guarantees the business is kept lean for a long-term.
YOU'RE GOOD AT
- Detailed cost baselining and spend analysis with strong understanding of cost categories at a granular level
- Analysing large datasets of client financial and non-financial data utilizing advanced data analysis techniques to generate high value insights
- Understanding and optimizing Chart of Accounts (CoA), general ledger systems and cost centers, providing insights to support cost management
- Conducting internal and external benchmarking of costs to develop initial savings hypothesis
- Identifying cost optimization levers to quantify savings potential and determining reinvestment opportunities
- Conducting stakeholder interviews and facilitating challenger workshops with clients, supported with high quality analyses and your knowledge of optimization levers
- Adapting the planning & budgeting process to sustainably incorporate the ZBT ways-of-working and savings ambitions
- Defining governance policies for steering a ZBT program and implementing optimization initiatives
- Monitoring savings realization and developing change management and communication for organization wide alignment
- Working collaboratively and contributing effectively to team discussions; often leading discussions on alternative approaches and deliverables
What You’ll Bring
- 3+ years of relevant work experience in cost restructuring required; candidates with consulting experience preferred
- Minimum 2+ years of consulting experience strongly preferred, and 2-4+ years of industry experience in lieu of consulting experience
- Master’s degree in business administration, corporate finance, accounting, mathematics etc. with very good academic achievements and / or Qualified Chartered Accountant and / or ACCA and / or CMA, with a management consulting background
- Outstanding analytical skills / comfortable working with large data sets to distill data driven insights
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills to interact with internal and external stakeholder while working in a global collaborative team environment
- Knowledge of data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Alteryx and Tableau) will be an added advantage
- Fluency in English
Who 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
- Demonstrating adaptability and resilience, quickly adjusting to changing priorities and maintaining composure under pressure
- 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