Expert Associate Director, Corporate Finance & Strategy Practice

About the job

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.

Practice Area

The Corporate Finance & Strategy Practice (CFS) combines rich expertise in corporate strategy concepts with a management methodology designed to create sustainable value-add for BCG clients. Our team provides extensive experience in planning and implementing corporate transactions including merger & acquisition deals and divestitures. We deliver analytic approaches that allow senior management to effectively deal with challenges such as generating growth, managing a portfolio of assets, forming a world-class finance organization, understanding risk, and responding to the way capital markets assess companies today. Taking swift action in turning around and restructuring a business for long-term survival is also part of our offering.

What You'll Do

As an Expert Associate Director, you will lead project teams comprised of Associate and Consultants enabling them to find the right approach, motivate them to deliver on time and to achieve long-term impact for our clients and as well as support our growth targets for the Corporate Finance and Strategy (CFS) topics.

The focus of this role will be on:

• Bringing expert level credibility to our cases and business development opportunities
• Continuing to build our CFS practice as part of the global topic leadership team
• You will drive client interactions ensuring a constructive collaboration with our stakeholders, advising them on key strategic business issues, producing leading-edge business models, and addressing specific problems and opportunities.
• You will also play a key role in high-level client relationships and act as a content lead for proposals and other business development activities.

In this role you will be expected to:

• Act as a key topic expert for our CFS practice, including projects in corporate strategy & value creation, transactions, CFO excellence (finance transformation, performance management, etc.), innovation strategy, and business model innovation.
• You will advise clients on executive level across industries supporting them to improve or transform their Strategy and achieve excellence in what they do.
• Work jointly with BCG and client project teams, bringing expertise to the team and to the client on site.
• Be part of our business development efforts: client meetings, industry conferences etc.
• Provide mentorship and support to consultants ensuring continuous development.

Our Expert Consulting Track

The Expert Consulting Track (ECT) is vital to BCG’s ability to successfully meet our clients’ demand for deep expertise and advanced technical capabilities. Experts deliver next-level impact for BCG's most complex and cutting-edge client challenges. Experts focus on developing BCG's thought leadership, commercial capabilities, and intellectual property assets; and their work is essential to our delivery model. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team to bring the ‘best of BCG’ to our clients, Experts come from diverse backgrounds, with expertise often gained outside of BCG in industry, academia, or specialized consulting.

What You'll Bring

You would typically have:

• At least 12 years of experience in a top level advisory or consulting firm - leading/playing core role in driving projects e.g. owning the project process, content and day-to-day client interactions.
• Driving the content development, either directly or by providing guidance to the consulting team.
• Consulting mind-set: hypothesis-led problem solving, framing and communicating complex ideas, thinking strategically.
• Fluency in English
• Fluency in any of the ASEAN languages is a plus

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.