Capabilities & Insights Analyst - Banking

Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward. In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else. When you join us, you will have: Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey. A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes. Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences. World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family. You will work alongside senior knowledge professionals on large client projects and internal knowledge initiatives in banking. By collecting and analyzing data and information found in databases and/or other primary and secondary research tools, you will assemble a fact base, counsel consultants and clients on the scope of business and economic trends surrounding the issue and provide insights and analysis for solving client problems at hand. Your day-to-day tasks may include identifying the key issues facing our clients and determining the most appropriate solution while effectively balancing quality, availability, timeliness, and cost factors. You’ll likely perform a variety of analyses such as benchmarking, trend identification, opportunity scanning, etc., to add value to problem-solving discussions. You’ll also provide synthesis, insights and client implications within tight deadlines via end products in the form of PowerPoint documents, written memos, models in Excel and frameworks. Your work will include research, analysis, problem solving (conceptual and analytical) providing recommendations for our clients, working with other colleagues and with our clients to deliver impact. In time, you will also participate in, and eventually lead, internal knowledge development and capability-building initiatives, and leverage as needed GenAI and advanced analytics tools to prepare and analyze large datasets and distill insights. You will be part of our EEMA Client Capabilities Network (CCN) and will work closely with local regional team colleagues with whom you will be collaborating daily. Your focus will be on banking for the Middle East region. Within the team, you will be a part of the capability providing insights on the market including the macro economy, and the public and private sector landscape. McKinsey leaders will offer you sponsorship and mentor you to build your capabilities. Your work includes extensive travel within the Middle-East region to serve our clients across locations, incl. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar. Our client capabilities professionals across the globe work alongside our consultants from other consulting tracks to deliver Change that Matters to our clients, both remotely and at client sites, in an agile and targeted way. Further, they are core to our firm’s R&D, development of new knowledge, building of proprietary capabilities as assets and data sets. Our portfolio includes state-of-the-art research, data-backed rapid diagnostics, benchmarking, and workflow support while our professionals have deep expertise and apply a broad range of methodologies to address specialized on-demand analyses.

1+ years of experience preferred in banking / fintech or in research and analysis for business decision making Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills Ability to accomplish work in fast-paced and dynamic environments Ability to work well in a team setting and across all levels within an organization Demonstrated relevant research experience in an academic or business setting Proficiency with GenAI for core tasks preferred and valued (e.g. research, basic analytics, simple task automation, communication refinement)