Consulting Analyst

About 27Group

The 27Group is a network of boutique management consulting firms headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 27Group was founded by like-minded professionals with a shared vision on rebuilding humanity with a unique blend of consulting services. The founders have collective experience in corporate restructuring & recovery, corporate finance, management consultancy specialising in natural & built assets services.

WHY JOIN US

At 27Group, we offer unique career opportunities for those who strive to create an impact that matters for business and society. The 27Group is structured across 3 strategic building blocks, namely 27Advisory, 27Capital, and 27Projects, each with unique but complementing service offerings. Our services span across the whole life cycle of our clients' businesses or projects. We serve a wide range of client base, including government bodies, government-linked corporations and multinational corporations within Southeast Asia.

In 27Advisory, we bring sustainable business solutions to the business & assets owners, leveraging on the strength of emerging business models and technologies, to create transformative, innovative and technology infused results.

JOB DESCRIPTION

About the role:

This position is primarily responsible for assisting the Director and the team on creating, shaping, communicating, executing, and sustaining the company's strategy and innovation plans aligned with the business goals for growth. The person will be responsible for transforming the development and execution of the overall strategy and innovation initiatives as well as providing independent, deep and meaningful insights and advisory in a structured and articulate manner to senior business leaders as a key partner for critical decision support. It requires a high level of collaboration, discretion, intense focus, and quick turnaround, leveraging resources from across the company, and the external world.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in end-to-end execution of management consultancy projects which include developing hypotheses, data collection, model creation and analyses, primary and secondary research, presentation of analyses findings, generation of constructive solutions or ideas to tackle specific business problems in clear and structured manner
• Assist in research and analysis for business diagnostics, analysing and interpreting ambiguous and complex information and relationships
• Support in the facilitation of client workshops or focused group discussion to interview stakeholders for insights gathering and design thinking
• Supporting senior management in business development efforts, including proposal creation and development of thought leadership publications
• Actively expand consulting skills and professional development through training course, mentoring and daily interaction with seniors and clients
• Identifying opportunities for efficiencies in work process and innovative approaches to completing scope of work

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree holders (preferably Accounting, Economics, Finance and/or Business Management)
• Candidate with previous exposure in management consulting, corporate management at leading companies or financial modeling will be prioritised
• Ability to identify, facilitate and pursue strategy and innovation development opportunities that create business value and sustainable growth through transformation and exploitation of a company's core strengths
• Strong logic, analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to analyses complex business issues, develop hypotheses and recommend solutions
• Comfortable with ambiguity and proven ability to operate successfully in a collaborative, matrixed organisational structure
• Highly strategic and innovative thinker with solid judgment and a passion for learning
• Possess strong financial knowledge and business acumen
• Able to synthesize complexity into elegant simplicity and be (or perceived to be) objective, impartial and unbiased while developing and presenting recommendations
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to interact across the spectrum from Individual Contributors to C‐level Executives

Specific Leadership Competencies we seek include:

• Business Acumen
• Driving Change & Performance
• Emotional Intelligence
• Leveraging Talent
• Managing Diversity
• Sustainability Orientation