Job Opportunities at McKinsey & Company

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• You will deliver expert risk advice and guidance that enables McKinsey’s most cutting-edge work while building and shaping a world-class risk management program. You will review cases and provide guidance on how to manage potential risks stemming from digital client engagements, supporting senior CSR colleagues on the most complex cases.
• You will assess the risk profile of tech-related products, tools and services that come up for review. You will assist CSR colleagues with preparing briefing materials for risk committee consideration of higher risk engagements, particularly where firm policies are not yet clear about the preferred risk stance.
• You will partner closely with and integrate advice from across firm functions (including Privacy, InfoSec, and Legal) and ‘cells’ (practices, offices, new delivery models) to provide counsel on multi-faceted issues. You will develop and implement best practices for operational risk requirements related to software delivery (including OSS and SaaS), AI/ML, privacy, and new tech-related products. You will support program development and delivery of priority initiatives and matters.
• You will educate colleagues in EEMA region on digital and analytics / client capabilities risk matters, and support knowledge sharing initiatives across the firm as they relate to these risk areas.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Undergraduate degree, graduate degree preferred, demonstrated intellectual curiosity through professional training, advanced degree, or professional impact
• 4+ years of professional experience in consulting / professional services, law, risk or other advisory role
• Strong analytical, issue-spotting and problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to handle complex, sensitive issues
• Strong project management skills with experience working on projects involving data processing, cloud computing, advanced analytics / AI or software development and delivery

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WHAT YOU'LL DO

• You will support our consultants and clients by collecting, summarizing, analyzing and synthetizing information that helps solve specific business problems in the basic materials industry.
• In this role, you will perform a wide range of analytics tasks on various basic materials industries and more specifically mining operations, developing perspectives that are relevant to clients. You will collaborate with our global Basic Materials Insights network to share and build knowledge, best practices and relevant new ideas. In project work and in exchanges with colleagues, you will deal with new intellectual challenges daily as well as build your industry and functional knowledge on an ongoing basis.
• The problems will often be of operational nature and you will use your knowledge, combined with McKinsey’s tools and frameworks, to solve these problems.
• When not directly supporting clients, you will be refining and developing our offerings and assisting in the growth of the basic materials solutions and practice.
• The versatility and nature of our work gives lots of opportunity for you to grow professionally and intellectually over time.
• There is flexibility to hire at the Knowledge Analyst or Senior Knowledge Analyst level, depending on your experience.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree in geology or mining operations
• 3+ years of work experience in underground mining operations
• Superior problem-solving and analytical skills
• Significant understanding of the industry dynamics of the mining sector
• Passion for analytics and interest in developing new approaches to mining data analysis and application to operational improvement

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WHAT YOU'LL DO

• You will be involved in specific engagements involving the building of new and bespoke advanced analytics solutions for clients. You’ll dive into complex data sets across a rich variety of industries, functions and geographies while remaining a core member of the strategy team, injecting your analytics thinking on meaningful client projects. 
• You will shape solutions tailored to the needs of our clients, maximizing programming languages (e.g., R, Python), tech platforms, and disruptive analytics methodologies (e.g., Casual Inference, Bayesian Optimization, Geospatial Analytics, Natural Language Processing) as part of our tech-agnostic firm.
• As a senior data scientist and consultant, you will have the opportunity to get in-depth exposure to emerging methodologies and programming languages through hands-on client projects, e-learnings, certifications, live bootcamps and global analytics conferences. You’ll also benefit from our established, formal leadership and consulting-toolkit trainings to support your personal and professional goals, from being a data-science manager to a firm partner to a Chief Analytics Officer.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field like computer science, engineering, statistics, mathematics or related field required; advanced degree is a plus
• 3+ years of hands-on mathematical modelling experience in business environment
• Programming (focus on machine learning) in Python (must), SPSS, SAS, Ruby, Hadoop (valued)
• Data treatment/Data mining SQL, AWK, Access, Spark, Excel (valued)

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WHAT YOU'LL DO

• You will typically work in teams of 3-5 consultants to help clients achieve new performance highs.
• In this role, you will make an important contribution to the analysis, design and implementation of business performance approaches, developing tailor-made solutions and working closely with clients to ensure positive impact and sustainable results. This includes gathering and analyzing information, formulating and testing hypotheses and developing recommendations for presentation to client management. From there, you will implement those recommendations with client team members.
• You will also gain new skills and build on the strengths you bring to the firm. You will receive exceptional training as well as frequent coaching and mentoring from colleagues on their teams.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong academic performance; advanced degree preferred
• 5+ years of relevant experience in IT management, IT architecture and technology delivery and technology-enabled operations and foundation
• Solid track record of professional success in an IT strategy consulting firm, a high performing IT department, a technology company, a technology-leveraged business, or managing large IT projects (experience as traditional IT consultants, CIOs, CTOs, senior level IT executives, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to identify business issues, form hypotheses, design and conduct analyses, and synthesize conclusions into recommendations

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WHAT YOU'LL DO

• You will work as part of the Client Service Risk team, which advises McKinsey’s Partners, the Primary Risk Accountable Cell Leader for Africa (PRACL – is a Partner who exercises primary risk accountability for the region that they lead) and the Client Service Risk Committee (CSRC – is a global committee of respected Senior Partners supported by firm functions professionals that advises on the most complex risks) on how the firm can best serve its clients throughout EEMA and or one or more of its regions eg. Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, while managing the risks involved.
• In this role, you will work on case intake and triage for the team, as well as help ensure our records and data is of excellent quality and be responsible for producing monthly reports. You will provide CSR and other firm functions colleagues with advice and support on how to best leverage key tools (including the case management system). You will also provide support with the convening and administration for key decision-making processes including record management.
• In addition, you will have the opportunity to support the implementation of improvements to our operating model, to support knowledge-management, reporting and risk awareness efforts. Over time, you will have the opportunity to contribute to special projects and other risk initiatives and may play a role in ensuring that students that are onboarded through the Learnship programme in the South-Africa office are upskilled on Risk Administration processes. In this role, you will have the opportunity to gain new skills and build on the strengths you bring to the firm.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Undergraduate degree
• Interest and/or experience in risk and professional standards issues
• Proficiency in basic business software (e.g., Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Excellent customer service orientation and ability to collaborate across relevant stakeholders in a proactive fashion; flexible and service-oriented attitude