Associate- Corporate Support Functions

About us:Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world's most ambitious change-makers define the future. Across 61 offices in 39 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.In 2004, the firm established its presence in the Indian market by opening the Bain Capability Center (BCC) in New Delhi. The BCC is now known as BCN (Bain Capability Network) with its nodes across various geographies. BCN is an integral and largest unit of (ECD) Expert Client Delivery. ECD plays a critical role as it adds value to Bain's case teams globally by supporting them with analytics and research solutioning across all industries, specific domains for corporate cases, client development, private equity diligence or Bain intellectual property. The BCN comprises of Consulting Services, Knowledge Services, and Shared Services.Who you will work with:This position is based in BCN's Gurgaon office and is an integral part of BCN's Data & Insights Capabilities CoE (D&I - Capabilities CoE). The individual will work as a part of Corporate Support team that supports case teams, PI practice & experts on multiple G&A cost reduction/ optimization cases through a suite of solutions including functional benchmarking, functional maturity assessments, time studies, shared services opportunity assessment, etc.CoE undertakes complex and advanced data analysis to process client data and generate critical insights to help identify areas of improvement. Over time, we have built seamless solutions and use powerful, dynamic visualizations/ charts on multiple platforms (PowerBI, Tableau) to showcase our results. Our CoE is also involved in generation of critical IP useful for new performance improvement cases globally at Bain.What you'll do:As an Associate in the team, you'll be expected to play a senior team member role on G&A benchmarking / diagnostic cases, at times leading simple cases independently and at times driving the analysis on more complicated cases with direction from a Project Leader / ManagerOwn end-to-end delivery of low to mid complexity workstreams of benchmarking & diagnostic solutions on Corporate Support optimization cases. This includes the following:Work with case teams and clients to understand case requirements and leverage most appropriate tools/ solutions for identifying problem areasLeverage client data to build detailed functional baseline and use it to conduct benchmarking analysis to identify opportunity areas and size-of-prizeAnalyze responses received from qualitative surveys to identify current client state and emerging insights on opportunity areasShowcase domain expertise on Corporate Support functions and topicsProvide rapid benchmarking support and guidance on critical benchmarks to use to case teams looking for a high-level assessment of corporate support functionsEnsure timely, high quality and Zero-defect output and conduct reality checks on answers with little to no support from Project Leader/ SupervisorSupport buildout of Bain's proprietary benchmark database, applying sound logic and business judgement to validate received data points ensuring quality data is ingestedAbout you:Candidate should be a graduate/ post-graduate with strong academic records and relevant experience in consulting, research and analysis-related workCandidate should have prior experience in Finance and HR transformation/ optimization initiatives and good domain knowledge across other corporate support topics (like Shared Services)Work experience range in case highest qualification is undergraduate studies –2-5 years of relevant experience (>50% experience in consulting is preferred)Work experience range in case highest qualification is postgraduate studies –1-3 years of relevant experience (>50% experience in consulting is preferred)Excellent analytical skills, communication skills (ability to deliver clear and professional presentations to senior stakeholders), team management and project management skillsDemonstrated ability to work with MS Excel and PowerPointKnowledge of analytics & visualization tools, such as Alteryx, Tableau, Power BIWhat makes us a great place to workWe are proud to be consistently recognized as one of the world's best places to work, a champion of diversity and a model of social responsibility. We are currently ranked the #1 consulting firm on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work list, and we have maintained a spot in the top four on Glassdoor's list for the last 12 years. We believe that diversity, inclusion and collaboration is key to building extraordinary teams. We hire people with exceptional talents, abilities and potential, then create an environment where you can become the best version of yourself and thrive both professionally and personally. We are publicly recognized by external parties such as Fortune, Vault, Mogul, Working Mother, Glassdoor and the Human Rights Campaign for being a great place to work for diversity and inclusion, women, LGBTQ and parents.