Capabilities & Insights Analyst – PFIC Insurance
McKinsey & Company · Tokyo, Japan · 3d ago
Mid levelOn-siteData & Analytics
Who you'll work with
Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.
In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.
When you join us, you will have:
- Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
- A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
- Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.
What you'll do
You will work in McKinsey’s CCN within Panorama Financial Institutions Center (PFIC). PFIC is one of the largest Knowledge and Expert consulting capabilities globally and part of the FIG practice, with 230+ members and a global footprint across 30+ locations, focusing on financial services domains, e.g., Retail banking, Corporate & Investment Banking, Wealth & Asset Management and Insurance.
The Insurance team within PFIC also has a global multi country footprint across regions APAC, Americas and Europe.
You will support consulting teams on client engagements bringing knowledge and expertise on Insurance related topics. This will include consolidating data across multiple sources, developing unique perspectives, creating client-ready materials and other tasks as needs arise.
You will conduct primary and secondary research within the Insurance domain using proprietary and third-party data sources and managing day-to-day workflow posts, which you will be responsible for packaging research findings in the form of client ready-end products which could be power point presentations and/or financial models.
Over time, you will be expected to develop expertise in a specific area within Insurance and drive research and development of new knowledge as well as contribute to broader knowledge development and proprietary assets to deliver that expertise in a client context. Additionally, you would need to contribute as an active member of the global PFIC community and develop relationships around the globe to build on your knowledge and provide support to the broader network as needed.
You will have fluency to apply GenAI technologies, under risks, and best practices and should be able to leverage GenAI for data gathering, analysis to improve quality and efficiency of insights and problem-solving, demonstrating proficiency in using prompts and genAI agents.
There is flexibility to hire at the Senior Analyst level, depending on your experience
Your background
- Degree in commerce, finance, business studies, economics
- 3-5 years of work experience in consulting firms in the FIG space or in Local Insurance organizations
- Strong understanding of financial statements and general business concepts
- Superior problem-solving, analytical and quantitative skills
- Professional attitude and service orientation
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team
- Willing to work in a demanding and result-oriented team environment
- Entrepreneurial and self-starters who enjoy the challenges and rewards of research work in a dynamic and changing environment
- Ability to work with low-code-no code tools to build GenAI agents; knowledge of python and building and using GenAI agents would be a plus
- Strong written and verbal communication skills