Analyst - BCG Vantage

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What You\'ll Do

As an Analyst – BCG Vantage on our Topic Activation path within BCG\'s Risk & Compliance (R&C) Practice Area, you will work in a growing global team, providing industry and topic expertise and insights, working together with BCG case and proposal teams to deliver customized knowledge assets and expert advisory. Additionally, you will support your topic in developing existing & new intellectual property and knowledge assets. Part of the role is acting in a consulting capacity to case teams and the remainder managing assets, IP, tools and team processes.

You will own the production of bi-yearly Flagship Report the Global Treasury Benchmarking Survey and the Financial Institutions Balance Sheet Optimisation Tool; ensuring accuracy and contribute to their enhancement.

You will support client cases - based on developing recommendations for individual clients and join the Consulting Team on pitches and client cases with analysis and insights.

The R&C PA helps clients to manage key risks strategically, to advance organizational resilience and establish a profound risk culture, by defining and transforming R&C operating models. We cover a diverse set of topics across financial and non-financial risks and assist in enabling clients\' strategy through technical enablement with the help of our deep expertise in risk modelling, analytics and digitization.

Our Balance Sheet Optimisation client work helps our clients to find levers to optimize the risk/return profile of the Balance Sheet and we support them in building the capabilities to realize the benefits. We aim to help our clients to balance risk and return from structural Balance

Sheet risks and from deploying financial resources, covering liquidity risk, refinancing/funding, interest rate risk, security investments/pensions, capital stack/capital efficiency, and FX & commodity risk.

YOU\'RE GOOD AT

• The technical setup of data bases (including connecting external data providers), questionnaire production and consolidation of results
• Simple calculation engines
• Standardizing Balance sheet and Profit and Loss analysis of banks (benchmark of external data in standardized output) – prepare tooling, data management and gathering externally available data
• Profit and Loss potential analysis: standardized outside in Profit and Loss Uplift analysis based on external available data (like cost-cutting or Risk Weighted Asset Uplift analysis) – prepare tooling, data management and gather externally available data
• Working capital models: standardized output of Working capital analysis for corporates – maintain tooling, data management and gather externally available data
• Applying topic/sector expertise when contributing to building and deploying a product/tool/data, taking different client contexts into account
• Working collaboratively and effectively in a group dynamic often virtual, proficient in agile ways of working
• Communicating with senior stakeholders, being credible and proactive
• Framing, structuring, and sharing intellectual property, with the ability to write clearly and concisely, producing automated client decks (based on pre-defined formats)
• Working creatively and analytically in a time-limited, problem-solving environment
• Flexibility and bring a curious and creative mindset, open for new things and able to propose innovative ideas
• Ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity
• Interacting with internal and external stakeholders while working in a global collaborative team environment

What You\'ll Bring

• Knowledge of Treasury/Finance (balance sheet, capital and Profit and Loss of banks/corporates and knowledge of market data (interest rates, Foreign Exchange, bond markets)
• Master\'s degree relevant to Balance Sheet Optimisation;
• 1+ year of relevant work experience in Financial Institutions
• Or Bachelor\'s degree with strict minimum of 1+ year consulting experience or 2+ years of relevant industry work experience in Finance and/or risk
• Required: fluency in English and German. Desired: Fluency in Spanish
• Strong business acumen and problem-solving capabilities
• Strong written and verbal communication skill

Who You\'ll Work With

As an Analyst – BCG Vantage on our Topic Activation path you will collaborate with global topic leads and colleagues across BCG to bring expertise and capabilities to the service of our internal and external clients. Our team is made up of a diverse pool of BCG Vantage positions that allow us to pursue exciting, innovative BCG Vantage careers.

Additional info

BCG Vantage is a powerhouse of expertise, seamlessly embedded within Practice Areas and markets to drive extraordinary impact. It equips BCG case teams and clients with cutting-edge expertise, proprietary assets, actionable data, and transformative insights that empower our case teams and enable our clients to achieve their aspirations.

With global experts across 20 Practices, covering more than 100 topics, sectors and offers, plus four focused geographic markets, BCG Vantage delivers unparalleled depth and breadth of insight & expertise. BCG Vantage consists of three career paths, each playing a crucial role in delivering value to clients, case teams and practice teams.

Client Focus (Embedded Expertise)

• Integrates into client-facing teams to deliver direct client impact through expertise, know-how, and proprietary tools and assets

Topic Activation (Sector Expertise with Proprietary Tool & Data Solutions)

• Combines deep domain insights with our know-how and proprietary assets to address targeted challenges directly with clients and project teams; co-creates insights on industry trends and functional topics, proprietary data and tools, and teams to codify IP that all enables BCG to deliver excellent business value with its clients

Research (Practice Topic and Sector-Aligned Research and Insights)

• Delivers actionable research and insights tailored to the client project’s needs; works with qualitative and

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