McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Position Description

Data Analyst Horizon 360/MSO

DEPARTMENT:
LOCATION:

McKinsey Solutions
Bangalore, India

About us
McKinsey & Company, Inc. is a leading international management consulting firm
with 90 office locations in 55 countries. It is one of the most respected and
renowned organisations in the world and has been consistently ranked as the
leading employer of choice at MBA schools across the world.
It advises top management of the worlds leading companies on issues of strategy,
organization and operations. Our mission is twofold: to help our clients make
positive lasting and substantial improvements in their performance and to build a
great Firm that is able to attract, develop, excite and retain exceptional people.
McKinsey Solutions is a fast growing office within McKinsey. Having developed
and deployed some 15 solutions to more than 400 companies over the last 5 years,
this dynamic team has continued to double its size every year, and now numbers
more than 500 full-time professionals.
Horizon360 is a MSO offering targeted at IT service providers and Internal IT
divisions of large organization. It includes offering starting from assessment, deepdive diagnostic, transformation toolkits. The team has experience serving leading
IT service providers and IT divisions of large banks, telecoms across globe. To
further push our client reach and relevance, we are looking at aspirational people
with good understanding of IT, who wouldn't mind experimenting and deliver
change

Overview of the Data Analyst position for Horizon 360 in McKinsey Solutions
Office (MSO)
Responsible for interacting with clients / consulting team to understand their
requirements and design / map client data on to Horizon360 tools "Navigator" and
"Sapience" for running analysis and delivering insights as part of transformation
Main Responsibilities:
Understanding the business requirements of our clients / consultants, and
develop good working knowledge of McKinsey tools.
Execute quick turn-around work in MS Excel
Build data intensive models / tools
Provide assistance/guidance to other members in MS Excel
Qualifications/Skill set

Minimum 3-5 year experience in similar roles with ability to manage and run
analysis on large data set

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science/IT with relevant IT related
certifications (like, DOEACC A level, GNIIT) and having high
programming and logical skills
(OR)

Post Graduate/Graduate in Computer Applications from Tier II institutes and
having a course in mathematics/statistics is a plus

Have solid understanding of MS Excel including

Functions for performing data aggregation (sumif, countif), data cleaning
(like trim, len, mid), data lookups (lookups, match, index) and cell
references

Pivot tables

Importing data from various sources (like formats like text files, CSVs, MS
Access)

Soft Skills include

Able to handle client calls on technical and data issues

Strong problem solving and logical skills

Good written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to work under pressure and deliver on tight deadlines.

Ability to work in a team

Energetic, cooperative and pleasant personality

Be a self-starter and willing to take initiative
Travel

 The role will require travelling with in India at least 10-15% of the time at a
short notice
Location
Bangalore