Senior Analyst - Corporate Finance & Strategy, BCG ValueScience

Boston Consulting Group (BCG); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Gym membership reimbursement

Retirement plan

Parental leave

Paid time off

Paid sick time

Job summary

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) seeks a Senior Analyst for the ValueScience Center (VSC) in San Francisco to perform financial analyses and build models assessing strategic plans, mergers, and capital markets effects. You will collaborate with global teams, contribute to client workshops and proposals, and help deliver insightful, data-driven recommendations.

The role emphasizes analytical rigor, strong communication, and the ability to work across diverse teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with strong academic record; 1–2+ years in corporate finance, investing, or consulting.
• Demonstrated interest in corporate finance and valuation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform financial analyses such as shareholder return analysis (TSR) and corporate valuation.
• Build financial models to analyze the capital markets impact of strategic plans and M&A.
• Create high-quality client presentations and contribute to proposals.
• Collaborate with global VSC teams and client project leaders.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Excel

Communication

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Tools

Excel

Job description

Who We Are

Boston 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.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Analyst at BCG ValueScience Center (VSC), part of the Corporate Finance & Strategy Practice Area, you will focus on applied corporate finance and valuation topics. Contributing to client cases, workshops and proposals, the Senior Analyst will perform financial analyses such as shareholder return analysis (TSR), corporate valuation and financial benchmarking. You will also be responsible for building financial models to analyze the capital markets impact of strategic plans, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and financial policies (e.g., debt issuance, dividend policy change).

The Senior Analyst will also share topic/sector acumen and points of view more broadly within the firm. You will partner with BCG teams, managers and project leaders to generate insights pertinent to the financial characteristics and aspects of clients, integrate analysis efforts into proposals/projects, and create high quality presentations for clients.

YOU’RE GOOD AT

• Partnering with BCG teams to identify and deliver original analysis and thought partnership
• Executing customized and high-quality analysis
• Problem solving – able to take a creative and hypothesis-driven approach in order to solve complex problems
• Working with other BCG teams to ensure that requests for shareholder value expertise are addressed by VSC and appropriate analysis is delivered
• Working collaboratively and effectively in a group dynamic which is often virtual
• Flexibility and bringing a curious and creative mindset, open to new things and able to propose innovative ideas

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree, with high academic achievement required and 1-2+ years of relevant work experience in corporate finance, investing, and/or consulting
• Demonstrated interest in corporate finance and valuation
• Strong work ethic and client service-mentality
• Collaborative, team player approach
• Strong mathematics and analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in Excel
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple parallel tasks
• Strong interpersonal skills, credibility
• Behavior aligned with the highest ethical standards

Who You’ll Work With

The Senior Analyst works with other VSC colleagues globally and will support BCG consulting teams across various industry and functional Practice Areas (clients and consulting teams will be based in North America primarily, but you will work with clients/teams throughout the world).

Additional info

BCG Vantage is a powerhouse of expertise, seamlessly embedded within Practice Areas and markets to drive extraordinary impact. It equips BCG case teams and clients with cutting-edge expertise, proprietary assets, actionable data, and transformative insights that empower our case teams and enable our clients to achieve their aspirations.

With global experts across 20 Practices, covering more than 100 topics, sectors and offers, plus four focused geographic markets, BCG Vantage delivers unparalleled depth and breadth of insight & expertise.

BCG Vantage consists of three career paths, each playing a crucial role in delivering value to clients, case teams and practice teams.

• Client Focus (Embedded Expertise)
  • Integrates into client-facing teams to deliver direct client impact through expertise, know-how, and proprietary tools and assets
• Topic Activation (Sector Expertise with Proprietary Tool & Data Solutions)
  • Combines deep domain insights with our know-how and proprietary assets to address targeted challenges directly with clients and project teams; co-creates insights on industry trends and functional topics, proprietary data and tools, and teams to codify IP that all enables BCG to deliver excellent business value with its clients
• Research (Practice Topic and Sector-Aligned Research and Insights)
  • Delivers actionable research and insights tailored to the client project’s needs; works with qualitative and quantitative data, conducts research and provides synthesized results from sources including commercial data, public and open source, company and industry research, macro-economic, commodities and trade data
  • For US locations only ***

Total compensation

In the US, we have a compensation transparency approach.

Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, retirement contribution, and a market leading benefits package described below.

• The base salary range for this role in San Francisco is $107,500 - $120,000

In addition to your base salary, your total compensation will include a bonus of up to 30% and a generous retirement contribution that starts at 5% and moves to 10% after 2 years.

All Of Our Plans Provide Best In Class Coverage

• Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
• Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs
• Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 in orthodontia benefits
• Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually
• Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
• Fully vested Profit Sharing Retirement Fund contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not, plus the option for employees to make personal contributions to a 401(k) plan
• Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays per year, an annual office closure between Christmas and New Years, and 15 vacation days per year (earned at 1.25 days per month)
• Paid sick time on an as needed basis

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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