QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of professional experience including experience in due diligence; experience in risk management and compliance is a plus
- Proficiency in additional languages such as Mandarin or Japanese is a plus
- Outstanding English written and oral communication skills, including clear and concise writing and editorial skills and excellent listening skills
- Professional experience working on complex problems related to business risk
- Excellent problem-solving and analytic skills, with a demonstrable ability to operate with limited oversight
- Experience working with third party tools for diligence related work
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to prioritize and balance competing, time-urgent demands
- Experience in or aptitude for mastering risk-related data sets and technology solutions
- Experience (work or research) in multiple geographies in Asia is important; experience in other emerging economies is especially helpful
- Highly collaborative attitude, and the interest and aptitude for working as part of a diverse and dispersed global team
- Strong personal presence and credibility with the ability to work across all levels of seniority, cultivating trust-based, peer-counselor relationships in a highly matrixed environment.
- Strong personal resilience, including comfort and credibility in challenging discussions with senior colleagues, balancing robustness, persistence, flexibility, humility, and tact
- Experience undertaking complex research independently and efficiently using a range of web-based sources and using Internet search strategies
- Comfort with, and professional working knowledge of Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
- Academic credentials that include a strong undergraduate degree and demonstrable intellectual curiosity through professional training, advanced degree, or professional impact
- Occasional travel required and must have the ability to work across several time zones as needed
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
You will be based in the McKinsey office in one of the Asia locations and report to the Compliance Manager, COE Diligence, Asia who is based in Bengaluru, India. You will be part of McKinsey’s Client Service Compliance pillar which forms part of the firm’s Ethics & Compliance Group, whose mission is to enable McKinsey’s client impact and innovation, while managing risks to the firm, our clients, and our people. The Compliance function is a globally integrated team within the second line of defense of the firm.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will carry out diligence on clients to inform decision making on who the firm serves. In doing so, you will have responsibility for identifying, clearing and where appropriate escalating red flags. While the role is global, your focus will be primarily be on the Asia region.
You will play an important role in evolving and ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of the firm’s diligence processes in a globally consistent way while also supporting efforts to ensure compliance with relevant firm policies, systems, and processes.
In carrying our diligence on prospective new clients, you will synthesize multiple sources of data—both internal and external to the firm—to provide actionable guidance, help navigate uncertainty, and identify ways to mitigate risk. This will often involve the development and delivery of contextualized reports to firm colleagues, and collaboration as necessary to secure additional expert input to inform due diligence discussions and fill gaps in knowledge.
You will be responsible for the diligence research, data synthesis, and reporting with the support and guidance of more senior team members.
Over time, you will be expected to inform decision making through an increasingly nuanced understanding of economic, geographic, and political issues that impact on the firm’s engagements, and to serve as a valued source of advice on relevant approaches and levels of diligence for specific sectors and clients.
