Engagement Associate - Management & Financial Consulting

What you'll be doing in your role

You'll get an opportunity of working within a team of 2-3 other colleagues and play an integral part of a team who will be solving problems for clients. A typical engagement in consulting could entail, inter alia, analysing the business, diagnosing a problem, evaluating the root cause, developing solutions, simulating the possible outcomes, creating an achievable plan, drawing milestones, executing the plan and reporting the results on an ongoing basis.

What you'll be doing in the team

40% of your time

FOUNDERS' OFFICES/ STRATEGIC FINANCE OFFICES

A typical engagement in SFO could entail, inter alia, analyzing the business, diagnosing a problem, evaluating the root cause, developing solutions, simulating the possible outcomes, creating an achievable plan, drawing milestones, executing the plan and reporting the results on an ongoing basis.

- Management reporting & Analytical MIS

- Business efficiency & effectiveness mapping

- Business structuring, restructuring and reorganizations

- Instituting management frameworks or new tools & techniques

- Developing efficiency and performance improvement measures

- Investing methodologies, risk advisory & control systems

50% of your time

INVESTMENT BANKING + M&A / 40%

A typical engagement in IB entails, analyzing the business, identifying the opportunity, ascertaining the value of the business, developing the go-to-market strategy, creating the business & financial model, evaluating funding scenarios, evaluating the right investors for a deal and participating in deal-making (negotiations, valuation & structuring of the deal).

- Modelling/ remodeling of businesses to unlock their growth potential

- Preparation of deal collateral like a detailed financial model, detailed investor information memorandums and summary investor pitches

- Performing valuations and benchmarking against other comparators

- Capital structuring and providing negotiation inputs to stakeholders

- Identification of investor thesis, mandate research, fund strategy

- Synergy analysis or post transaction fitment analysis

SHOULD HAVES

A. Experience as part of a client-facing & delivery team and from

(1) Big5 or

(2) Consulting firm of the likes of MBB, Oliver Wyman, Parthenon, A&M or

(3) An investment banking firm with client facing experience or

(4) a boutique investment banking firm or (5) a VC/ PE firm; or

B. Exposed to finance and management projects inside an organization like Advanced FP&A/ Founders Office / Chief of Staff / Management Reporting

(1) Role involving financial or business analysis or evaluation

(2) Role involving corporate finance/ business finance

(3) Role involving management reporting/ stakeholder management

(4) Role involving assurance or risk advisory

(5) Role involving efficiency measurements/ assessment