Project Leader - Financial Services

Description & Requirements

Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change-makers define the future. Across 65 offices in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry. In 2004, the firm established its presence in the Indian market by opening the Bain Capability Center (BCC) in New Delhi. The BCC is now known as BCN (Bain Capability Network) with its nodes across various geographies. Expert Client Delivery (ECD) is an integral unit of BCN. ECD plays a critical role as it adds value to Bain's case teams globally by supporting them with analytics and research solutions across all industries, specific domains for corporate cases, client development, private equity diligence, and Bain intellectual property WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH: This is an opportunity to be a part of Bain’s Financial Services (FS), Centre of Expertise (CoE), based out of Gurugram office. The FS CoE actively supports Partners/Global Case teams across Proposals, Client Development efforts, end Client Cases. Additionally, the team also supports the Global FS Practice in building Bain's FS Data Assets / IP / Thought Leadership / POVs / Tools, etc.  The group comprises 100+ team members across Banking, Insurance, and other Financial Services sectors. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Able to quickly come up to speed on different FS sub-sectors (Banking, Insurance, Wealth & Asset Management, Payments, etc.) Proficient in research and analysis, as well as able to provide solid business judgment to derive answers in situations where data is not easily available or explicitly published Responsible for generating hypotheses using various sources, including expert primary or secondary industry research, developing analytical models, translating data into meaningful insights, creating presentations, etc. Work under the guidance of a Project leader/Manager, playing a key role in driving their workstream’s overall answer and final materials, and helping their Project Lead/ Manager with client communication, work planning, and team management Take responsibility for assigned work streams, identify relevant tools and sources, steer analysis to create powerful insights, while ensuring high quality of work Communicate data, knowledge and insights to the entire team. Deliver audience-right high-quality presentations Comfortable with driving open-ended research, creating point-of-views, IP creation, survey analytics, showing quick ramp up on new projects Understand client needs, generate and screen solutions based on sound reality checks and recommend actionable next steps Effectively structure communication of insights from different work streams and proactively resolve discrete issues and/or drive consensus Build client-ready visualization dashboards using tools such as Tableau and perform a variety of advanced analysis Consistently seek and provide responsible feedback in all interactions; recognize different skills and development needs in oneself ABOUT YOU: Candidates should be graduates with a strong academic record. Any graduate with 6 months- 1 year of experience and has a passion to work in the Financial Services domain, such as Banking, Insurance, Wealth and Asset Management, Payments, Fintech, etc. Preference would be given to 2025 pass-outs. Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. Knowledge of any visualization tools or languages like Alteryx, Tableau and Python/R is a plus. Open to working in strategy consulting/research-oriented set-up and possess acumen to solve open-ended problems Hands-on experience with open-ended research, creating industry POV, sector and industry scans, summarizing key themes, trends challenges, survey