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Corporate Risk Management Associate - McKinsey (Houston,TX)

Corporate Risk Management Associate

Overview: The Corporate Risk Management Initiative is a cutting-edge group within McKinsey which links together all of our consultants worldwide who help clients on issues relating to risk management and risk-informed strategic decision making. The group’s work cuts across all industry sectors except banking and insurance. The most active sectors include global energy and materials, pharmaceutical/medical products, consumer and packaged goods, travel and logistics, high tech/telecom, and private equity. The group also takes a cross-functional view which incorporates approaches linking strategy, corporate finance, and operations. The mix of work involves advanced quantitative modeling of risk, but the emphasis is on supporting value-focused actionable business decisions by top management, and on capability building within the client organization

Detailed Description: The Corporate Risk Management Associate 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
  • Serve as a thought partner on client engagements, engaging in problem solving & discussion around topics related to risk with McKinsey consultants and clients
  • Contribute to knowledge development by helping define and elaborate distinctive risk-based methodologies to support top management-level strategic decisions
  • Work across multiple industries, focus on energy/natural resources, basic materials/chemicals, industrial, travel and pharma/medical products

Desired Skills:
  • Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem solving skills combined with outstanding business acumen
  • Experience building large scale quantitative models necessary. Knowledge of risk or other probabilistic modeling techniques or tools an asset e.g. Monte Carlo, Value at risk (VAR), @Risk, Crystal Ball, MATLAB
  • Demonstrated record of leadership, innovation, initiative and drive
  • Work experience in risk management or risk trading/intermediation is an assetl

Please note that we require both local language and English language fluency for all positions in countries where English is not the native language.

Background/Training: We seek out candidates with distinctive records of academic achievement with one of the following profiles:

  • MBA with an undergraduate degree in a heavily quantitative discipline (Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science)
  • Ph.D. degree in Business/Finance (ideally focused on risk), Economics, Physics, Statistics/Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering
  • Masters degree in Finance, Financial Engineering, or Applied Mathematics

About the Practice: The Corporate Risk Special Initiative helps deliver distinctive insight to clients (primarily outside banking) on issues related to risk management. For further information please visit our website at http://www.mckinsey.com/careers/cri/



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