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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

Business Transformation is essential to adapt to ever-changing conditions-even for companies that are already dominating their markets. It's a big challenge, but BCG's business transformation consultants can help clients put the odds in their favor. BCG helps companies orchestrate an effective business transformation and turnaround when all signs point to the need for fast, focused action and when companies are grappling with an urgent need to change amid great disruption. We deliver immediate impact to each client's bottom line, cash flow, and top-line growth-all while concentrating on what the client must do to sustain successful change far into the future. In addition, our special situation services help companies focus on managing their liquidity and capital. The goal? To strengthen their balance sheets, boost cash flows, and transition out of survival mode.

What You'll Do

As a Financial Modeling & Data Analytics Specialist , you will play a central role in some of BCG's most impactful restructuring and transformation engagements. You will develop advanced financial and analytical solutions that form the backbone of management decision-making-translating complex financial, operational, and strategic questions into clear, actionable insights.

You will follow BCG's expert career track, working closely with case teams and clients in a fast-paced, high-performance environment , while continuously deepening your expertise at the intersection of financial modeling, data analytics, and business planning .

Your work directly supports one of the most critical decision foundations for our clients: a robust, forward-looking business plan .

Client & Advisory Responsibilities

Act as an integral member of BCG's client teams, contributing directly to strategic and operational decisions of international companies
Serve as an embedded modeling and analytics expert within client-facing case teams
Collaborate closely with client counterparts to align on analytical approaches, assumptions, and data inputs
Support case team members and project leaders in shaping decision-relevant analyses and management-ready insights
Help translate complex analyses into clear narratives for senior management, lenders, and other key stakeholders

Core Technical Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain advanced, integrated financial and business models to support restructuring, turnaround, and transformation cases across industries
Combine financial modeling and financial data analytics to generate deeper insights into performance, liquidity, value drivers, and risk
Develop robust business planning, scenario, stress-testing, and sensitivity frameworks to support high-stakes decision-making
Apply strong corporate finance and accounting principles to ensure models are consistent, auditable, and decision-ready
Leverage modern analytics, automation, and modeling tools to increase speed, quality, and scalability of analyses
Continuously enhance analytical approaches by exploring automation, advanced analytics, and GenAI-enabled modeling solutions

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

Education

Master's degree in finance, economics, accounting, engineering, or a related quantitative field
Strong academic foundation in corporate finance, financial accounting, and quantitative analysis

Professional Experience

3-4 years of experience in financial modeling, valuation, and analytics within restructuring, transformation, transaction services, or financial advisory environments (e.g., Big 4, consulting, corporate finance or restructuring advisory)
Proven experience in building integrated financial and business planning models, including scenarios and stress tests

Tool Skill Set

Advanced proficiency in Excel-based financial modeling
Experience with data analytics and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau)
Working knowledge of VBA, Power Query, Alteryx, SQL, or Python is a strong plus
Openness to learning and applying more advanced planning and modeling platforms (e.g., Anaplan)
Strong curiosity for automation, large-scale data analytics, and GenAI-driven modeling approaches

Soft Skills

Structured, detail-oriented, and hypothesis-driven working style
Ability to manage complexity and deliver high-quality output under time pressure
Strong communication skills and confidence in client-facing settings
Very good written and verbal communication skills in English

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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