Your Growth When you join McKinsey as a Business Analyst, you are joining a firm that will challenge you and invest heavily in your professional development. In this role you will have the opportunity to work within teams helping clients to solve some of their most difficult problems, while you discover coaches, mentors, sponsors and friends in your learning program. Your team colleagues will make you feel welcome and help you be at your best during client engagements. The professional development team will develop a tailored learning and training program for you, taking into account your strengths and your professional development needs. Your Impact You will work collaboratively in teams including experts in different disciplines, gaining exposure to leadership and receiving extensive additional training to expand your skills set. The Business Analyst program will last at least 36 months.During the first year, you will be part of our Client Development Hub, working with partners from all the region to develop client proposals in specific sectors from the beginning of your professional experience and become an expert throughout your career. After a year, you will have the opportunity to work directly on a project with highly talented individuals from our offices, practices and clients, and have lasting impact on some of the largest corporations in Latin America. Following your business analyst tenure, assuming good performance, you will move into a post-graduate school role. Some business analysts will take advantage of the opportunity to get outside experience through a secondment (externship) with a private sector or social sector client with the firm's support. Others may choose to pursue graduate school with support from the firm. Your qualifications and skills Undergraduate degree or master's degree or 1+ years of work experience after completing your undergraduate degreeAbility to work collaboratively in a team and create an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organizationCapability to drive an independent workstream in the context of a broader team projectComfort with ambiguous, ever-changing situationsAbility to break down and solve problems through quantitative thinking and analysisAbility to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in English and in Spanish #J-18808-Ljbffr

Your Growth You will be based in our Santiago, Chile office as part of Operations Analytics in Latin America. We work with clients to identify where to focus, convert data and models into actionable insights, and develop institutional skills and structures to sustain impact. We use advanced analytics not only to improve the design of physical systems but also to address management infrastructures and employees' attitudes and behaviors so that clients are able to lead change independently. We assist our clients in solving the world's toughest problems by blending strategic thinking with hands-on practicality. Our team of consultants and experts work to develop and implement strategies that solve our clients' most critical problems on a global scale. Your Impact You will communicate data science features and capabilities to internal and external stakeholders with an eye to identify business needs and uncover areas for deeper data exploration. In this role, you will play a key consultative and client-facing role in the development of big data and advanced analytics as a refined yet evolving capability of our client teams who advise the top firms in the Operations sector. You will work with clients to help make the connection between our data science capability and real-world tangible impact and insight. You will act as a thought partner with analytics colleagues in the selection of techniques used for data modeling as well as establish operating practices to ensure high quality and efficient extraction and transformation of data. Additionally, you will engage with our clients to create new strategies across a wide platform of projects from automation to mine optimization to predictive maintenance and more. You will not only expand our current analytics capabilities but will help architect new strategies and applications within a dynamic innovative organization. Your qualifications and skills Undergraduate degree in computer science, applied math, statistics, engineering or related quantitative field; master's or PhD degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, applied statistics or mathematics is a plus.2+ years of technical and management experience in distributed computing, machine learning and statistics-related work preferably within heavy industry, basic materials (e.g., metals & mining) or service industries.Technical experience in predictive analytics, deep learning, machine learning, data mining and/or optimization in an operations-related field (e.g., manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, workforce management and/or fleet scheduling).Experience in defining and/or implementing digital strategies and analytics across all stages of the value chain is a plus.Knowledge of Tableau/PowerBI.Programming experience in R and/or Python; SQL is a plus.Ability to independently own and drive model development, balancing demands and deadlines.Ability to prototype statistical analysis and modeling algorithms and apply these algorithms for data driven solutions to problems in new domains.Strong communication skills especially around breaking down complex structures into digestible and relevant points for a diverse set of clients and colleagues.Skills to communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and written, in English and Spanish.Willingness to travel up to 80%. #J-18808-Ljbffr