Business Analyst – Sustainability

McKinsey & Company is hiring a Business Analyst – Sustainability for their Jakarta office. The role involves collaborating with teams to address client challenges, particularly in sustainability. Responsibilities include data analysis, hypothesis testing, and presenting recommendations. Candidates should have a relevant degree and experience in sustainability topics. The position offers mentoring and professional development opportunities, emphasizing leadership and effective communication.
Who You’ll Work With

You will join our Jakarta office to work in teams and directly with our clients. In this role you will help our clients in the private, public, and social sectors solve some their most pressing problems with a priority in Sustainability. You will also work with a range of experts in the firm, from data scientists to researchers to software and app designers.

What You’ll Do

You’ll work in teams of typically 3-5 consultants to identify, and oftentimes implement, potential solutions for a specific client problem or challenge. Together, you will help clients make lasting improvements to their performance and realize their most important goals.

Over the course of each project, you will gather and analyze information, formulate, and test hypotheses, and develop and communicate recommendations. You’ll also present results to client management and implement recommendations in collaboration with client team members. In some cases, you will be asked to travel to your client site.

When you join McKinsey, you are joining a firm whose culture is distinctive and inclusive. We will accelerate your development as a leader to create positive, enduring change in the world.

As a business analyst, you will receive training and coaching on how to better
• Structure ambiguous problems and take action to solve them
• Use data, facts, and logical reasoning to make rational decisions
• Comprehend content (e.g., email, articles, spreadsheets) and synthesize into a clear and communicable format (either written or verbally)
• Work effectively with diverse teams to come up with the best solution and move people and organizations to act
• Establish trust-based relationships with clients to better serve their organizations
• Communicate effectively with all audiences, including senior leaders, in a structured manner
• Develop your leadership style, leveraging your own passions, strengths, and personal values

McKinsey believes in strengths-based development and coaching, and you’ll receive frequent mentoring from colleagues. This will include a senior colleague from your office or practice who will help you grow and achieve your career goals. Additionally, you will have a professional development manager who manages staffing to help you choose projects based on your priorities as well as the needs of client service teams.

We view the business analyst position as the start of a rewarding, challenging, and highly flexible career with McKinsey. During your first few years with the firm, you will serve as a business analyst on multiple client engagements and work with a number of colleagues and clients in mostly (but not limited to) Sustainability areas.

You will likely intersect with many elements of our firm’s work including digital, implementation, and tech and analytics capabilities – either by collaborating on teams or working with colleagues from these group.

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree from a reputable institution in related fields such as business, economics and engineering, with excellent academic standing
• Up to 4 years of work experience; consulting experience is a plus
• Exposure in climate change and sustainability topics, including but not limited to energy transition, industry decarbonization, renewable value chain, green materials and minerals, green fuels
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team and create an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organization
• Capability to drive an independent workstream in the context of a broader team project
• Comfort with ambiguous, ever-changing situations
• Ability to break down and solve problems through quantitative thinking and analysis
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Bahasa Indonesia