Junior Associate - Risk
McKinsey & Company
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Posted on Feb 4, 2025
Junior Associate - Risk
Job ID: 94756
Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.
Who You'll Work With
You’ll be working in São Paulo as part of our global Risk and Resilience Practice supporting clients in many different industries facing challenges of developing and implementing tailored concepts for risk recognition, measurement, and control.
Facing extreme volatility in financial and commodity markets, more and more of our clients are realizing that effective, risk-informed strategy can offer a major source of competitive advantage. We take a truly global, cross-sector, cross-functional view of risk issues, combining McKinsey’s deep industry insight and strategic skills with a structured risk-management approach, proven methodologies focused on true transformation, analytical tools, and practical implementation.
Your impact within our firm
You’ll work in teams of typically 3–5 consultants, playing an active role in all aspects of client engagement.
You will assist client teams in understanding and quantifying risk exposures, evaluating risk strategies, and building and maintaining risk models by being staffed full-time on one engagement or providing ad-hoc assistance to several engagements.
Over the course of each project, you will gather and analyze information, formulate, and test hypotheses, and develop and communicate recommendations risk-based methodologies to support top management-level strategic decisions. 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. You will receive training and coaching on how to better:
- Structure ambiguous problems and take action to solve them
- Synthesize clear takeaways from complex information into clear takeaways and recommendations using both qualitative and quantitative methods
- 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.
Your qualifications and skills
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or another business-related field; master’s degree is a plus
- 4+ years of experience in risk management in any industry sector and/or experience in a consultancy (with risk focus) and/or comparable experience in banking, credit risk, collections, fraud, insurance (actuarial experience with life insurance underwriting exposure and/or M&A actuarial background a plus), capital markets, crisis management, cyber risk, trading/intermediation with significant exposure to risk (e.g. commodity trading in the energy sector), or contract/asset structuring
- Experience managing people
- Strong natural entrepreneur and comfortable with risk-taking; problem-solving skills and quantitative and analytical thinking capabilities
- Strong command of Microsoft Excel and VBA
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to adjust and interact with all levels
- Strong communications skills to facilitate discussions and conduct training
- Strong project and change management skill
- Independent self-management skills and ability to work independently or as part of a team
- Capable of executing multiple tasks or projects simultaneously
- Fluent in English (verbal and written)
Please review the additional requirements regarding essential job functions of McKinsey colleagues.
FOR U.S. APPLICANTS: McKinsey & Company is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
FOR NON-U.S. APPLICANTS: McKinsey & Company is an Equal Opportunity employer. For additional details regarding our global EEO policy and diversity initiatives, please visit our McKinsey Careers and Diversity & Inclusion sites.
FOR BRAZILIAN APPLICANTS: Applicants for job positions in any office in Brazil have flexibility regarding qualifications and McKinsey & Company will not require previous experience of more than 6 months. If the job description indicates preferred prior work experience of more than 6 months, applicants for such job position in the Brazilian offices must interpret the preferred qualification described as limited up to 6 months maximum.
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Job Skill Code - AJPS - Senior Analytics Fellow
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Post to LinkedIn - Yes
Posted to LinkedIn Date - Fri Jan 31 00:00:00 GMT 2025
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