Executive-Ready Strategic Transformation Analyst

Consilio LLC; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Consilio LLC in Cape Town, South Africa, is seeking a capable strategy analyst to join its Strategy & Transformation team. You will structure ambiguous questions, size markets, build and audit models, and produce board-ready slides with a Pyramid Principle approach.

This role emphasizes exact numbers, MECE thinking and executive storytelling, with responsibilities spanning problem framing, financial modelling, deck production and execution support for EXCO and Board discussions.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years in management consulting (strategy house, Big Four strategy, or boutique) or a structured strategy / corporate development team led by ex-consultants.
• Working fluency in MECE, issue trees, hypothesis-driven problem solving, Pyramid Principle / SCQA and first-principles reasoning, with examples of applying them.
• Expert PowerPoint: you can take a blank template to a clean, consistent 10-slide deck without a production team; think-cell or equivalent strongly preferred.
• Advanced Excel modelling, including scenario analysis and sensitivity tables.
• A high bar for accuracy: you check your own work before it reaches anyone else.

Responsibilities

• Problem structuring and analysis: break ambiguous business questions into MECE issue trees and hypothesis-driven workplans.
• Size markets top-down and bottom-up, triangulate the answer, and make every assumption explicit and defensible.
• Run competitive benchmarking, adjacency assessments, market-entry and build/partner/buy analyses.
• Reason from first principles: rebuild economics from their drivers rather than relying on headline benchmarks.
• Financial and operating models: build clean, auditable Excel models with inputs, calculations and outputs separated, scenario and sensitivity toggles, and error checks.
• Model unit economics, business cases and investment returns; align assumptions with Finance.
• Storyline and deck production: write the storyline before building slides; ensure each slide has a clear, sourced message.
• Own production end to end to a board-ready standard: template discipline, consistent formatting, and numbers that tie across model, slides and narrative.
• Prepare materials for EXCO, SteerCo and board discussions.
• Execution support: translate recommendations into workplans, KPIs and milestone tracking with the programme team.

Skills

MECE thinking

Issue trees

Hypothesis-driven problem solving

Pyramid Principle / SCQA

First-principles reasoning

PowerPoint

think-cell

Advanced Excel modelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Actuarial Science, Mathematics or similar

Honours or master's degree, MBA, or equivalent

Tools

Excel

Power BI

think-cell

Job description

Consilio LLC in Cape Town, South Africa, is seeking a capable strategy analyst to join its Strategy & Transformation team. You will structure ambiguous questions, size markets, build and audit models, and produce board-ready slides with a Pyramid Principle approach.

This role emphasizes exact numbers, MECE thinking and executive storytelling, with responsibilities spanning problem framing, financial modelling, deck production and execution support for EXCO and Board discussions.