Project Leader, Financial Institution Practice

The Boston Consulting Group; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 327,000 - 491,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm in Kuala Lumpur seeks an experienced professional with at least 8 years in strategy consulting. You will lead client engagements, manage project teams, and formulate innovative long-term business strategies. The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills, excellent communication abilities, and a solid academic background. This role offers opportunities for mentorship and collaboration within a diverse team environment. Join us to innovate and drive significant change for our clients.

Benefits

Mentorship and training

Collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in strategy consulting.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams and solve complex business problems.
• Exceptional written and spoken English skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage client engagements and define client needs.
• Oversee project teams and develop innovative business strategies.
• Conduct advanced financial analysis and develop actionable recommendations.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Strong numerical skills

Analytical and structured

Ability to lead teams

Commercial capabilities and business judgement

Education

Strong academics from a top-tier institution

Job description

Locations: Kuala Lumpur | Singapore | Vietnam | Indonesia | Thailand | PhilippinesWho We AreBoston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963.

Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change.

BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive. Practice

AreaBCG’s Financial Institutions Practice Area (FIP) aims to be the consultant of choice for leaders in the financial industry. We seek to achieve that goal by helping clients find their way amid the ever-evolving, ever-shifting competitive landscape.

By focusing on the fundamental economics of their businesses and the underlying needs of their customers, we help banks, brokerages, asset managers and other financial- services organizations rethink their strategic assumptions, identify winning business propositions, and seize new opportunities in the expanding digital environment.

What You'll Do

• Play a key role on client engagements, managing studies to define client needs and supervising research activities to obtain relevant data.
• Be responsible for managing project teams comprised of consultants who design and develop innovative long-term business strategies for client corporations that maximize the return on the investment of shareholders.
• Oversee the formulation of hypotheses for research and investigation, and the advanced financial analysis of client, competitor, and industry data.
• Apply knowledge of business principles and industrial organization, develop actionable recommendations, and supervise work including strategic due diligence, product development studies, change management plans, and the evaluation of long-term investment opportunities.
• Be responsible for managing client contact and play a key role in the development and maintenance of high-level client relationships.
• Act as a key topic content lead for proposals or other business development work.

What You'll Bring

• Strong academics from a top-tier institution.
• A minimum of 8 years of professional experience, including experience in a strategy consulting environment and a demonstrated ability to lead teams of consultants. Experience from solving complex business problems and devising business strategies, through formulating research and/or analytical approaches involving quantitative analysis, conceptualization, and communication of strategic solutions. Excellent communication and persuasion skills and written and spoken English.
• Excellent numerical skills, analytical and structured with the potential to conduct advanced quantitative analysis. Solid business acumen, commercial capabilities and business judgement. Team player, open and positive in a group dynamic.

WHAT CAN A CAREER AT BCG OFFER YOU?

An opportunity to innovate and change: We have a legacy of developing deep insights and game-changing ideas and our case teams take ideas from all levels in order to deliver breakthrough insights to our clients. Training and mentoring: We embed mentorship and apprenticeship throughout your time at BCG.

You will have a support system of career development advisors, the guidance of project leaders, and partnership with your colleagues and teammates at every turn. A collaborative approach: You will join a growing team of talented individuals, operating and learning from people with a diverse and broad set of backgrounds.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws. Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

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