Project Leader - Financial Services

Bain & Company; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Bain & Company’s Financial Services Centre of Expertise in Gurugram is seeking graduates with a strong academic record and up to 1 year of experience who want to dive into strategy consulting and research.

You will conduct sector research across Banking, Insurance and related FS domains, build analytical models and dashboards in Tableau, and deliver client-ready insights and presentations. Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint is essential, with Tableau/Alteryx and Python/R as pluses.

Qualifications

• Graduates with strong academic record.
• 6 months–1 year of experience in Financial Services or similar.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; knowledge of visualization tools like Tableau and Alteryx, and Python/R is a plus.
• Open to strategy consulting/research-oriented setup and ability to solve open-ended problems.
• Hands-on research experience with industry POVs, sector and industry scans, summarizing key themes.
• Strong communication and team skills; ability to multi-task.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and develop approaches to tackle diligence questions.

Responsibilities

• Conduct FS sub-sector research across Banking, Insurance, and related areas.
• Develop analytical models and translate data into insights.
• Create client-ready presentations and dashboards.
• Support project leaders with planning and team coordination.
• Communicate findings to the team and contribute POVs.

Skills

Excel

PowerPoint

Research & analysis

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Alteryx

Tableau

Python/R

Job description

Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change-makers define the future. Across 65 offices in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.

In 2004, the firm established its presence in the Indian market by opening the Bain Capability Center (BCC) in New Delhi. The BCC is now known as BCN (Bain Capability Network) with its nodes across various geographies. Expert Client Delivery (ECD) is an integral unit of BCN. ECD plays a critical role as it adds value to Bain's case teams globally by supporting them with analytics and research solutions across all industries, specific domains for corporate cases, client development, private equity diligence, and Bain intellectual property

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH:

This is an opportunity to be a part of Bain’s Financial Services (FS), Centre of Expertise (CoE), based out of Gurugram office. The FS CoE actively supports Partners/Global Case teams across Proposals, Client Development efforts, end Client Cases. Additionally, the team also supports the Global FS Practice in building Bain's FS Data Assets / IP / Thought Leadership / POVs / Tools, etc.

The group comprises 100+ team members across Banking, Insurance, and other Financial Services sectors.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Able to quickly come up to speed on different FS sub-sectors (Banking, Insurance, Wealth & Asset Management, Payments, etc.)
• Proficient in research and analysis, as well as able to provide solid business judgment to derive answers in situations where data is not easily available or explicitly published
• Responsible for generating hypotheses using various sources, including expert primary or secondary industry research, developing analytical models, translating data into meaningful insights, creating presentations, etc.
• Work under the guidance of a Project leader/Manager, playing a key role in driving their workstream’s overall answer and final materials, and helping their Project Lead/ Manager with client communication, work planning, and team management
• Take responsibility for assigned work streams, identify relevant tools and sources, steer analysis to create powerful insights, while ensuring high quality of work
• Communicate data, knowledge and insights to the entire team. Deliver audience-right high-quality presentations
• Comfortable with driving open-ended research, creating point-of-views, IP creation, survey analytics, showing quick ramp up on new projects
• Understand client needs, generate and screen solutions based on sound reality checks and recommend actionable next steps
• Effectively structure communication of insights from different work streams and proactively resolve discrete issues and/or drive consensus
• Build client-ready visualization dashboards using tools such as Tableau and perform a variety of advanced analysis
• Consistently seek and provide responsible feedback in all interactions; recognize different skills and development needs in oneself
  

ABOUT YOU:

• Candidates should be graduates with a strong academic record.
• Any graduate with 6 months- 1 year of experience and has a passion to work in the Financial Services domain, such as Banking, Insurance, Wealth and Asset Management, Payments, Fintech, etc. Preference would be given to 2025 pass-outs.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. Knowledge of any visualization tools or languages like Alteryx, Tableau and Python/R is a plus.
• Open to working in strategy consulting/research-oriented set-up and possess acumen to solve open-ended problems
• Hands-on experience with open-ended research, creating industry POV, sector and industry scans, summarizing key themes, trends challenges, survey analytics. /
• Should possess strong communication and team skills, with ability to multi-task.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and develop approaches to tackle diligence questions

WHAT MAKES US A GREAT PLACE TO WORK

We are proud to be consistently recognized as one of the world's best places to work, a champion of diversity and a model of social responsibility. We are currently ranked the #1 consulting firm on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list, and we have maintained a spot in the top four on Glassdoor's list for the last 12 years. We believe that diversity, inclusion and collaboration is key to building extraordinary teams. We hire people with exceptional talents, abilities and potential, then create an environment where you can become the best version of yourself and thrive both professionally and personally. We are publicly recognized by external parties such as Fortune, Vault, Mogul, Working Mother, Glassdoor and the Human Rights Campaign for being a great place to work for diversity and inclusion, women, LGBTQ and parents.