An international Management Consulting firm is hiring Associate for their Ghana office.

ROLE PURPOSE

The Associate role is a frontline change agent for company clients. You are the primary source of reliable data and rock-solid analysis, providing the fact base the engagement team uses to make decisions in real time.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

You coach client analysts and line managers, sharing your skills and building relationships across the client site, using your network to ensure improvement plans are firmly based on the real-world that clients operate in.

Your key responsibility is to provide rigour and accuracy to the improvement effort. As the chief source of insight based on the data you work with, you facilitate the prioritization of improvement opportunities and use root cause analysis to help resolve day-to-day issues with implementation.

You directly support client Idea owners, providing technical and analytical support to ensure improvement ideas are successful.

You recognize when ideas are under or over-performing relative to expectations and you’re the primary source for validating the benefit stream generated by these ideas

What you will need to become a member of the consulting team:

Some industry or consulting experience post completing your undergraduate degree (minimum of 18 months’ work experience)

Undergraduate degree from a top-tier university, with excellent results (distinction average) While we consider candidates from a broad spectrum of degrees, we place a strong emphasis on quantitative skills studied in commerce, engineering and science-based courses.

Excellent problem-solving skills, including analytics

Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to coach, influence, and build trust with colleagues and clients

Demonstrated passion and bias for results

Must be fluent in English

Excellent communication skills, including the ability to respond clearly to hard questions under pressure and to use visual tools without assistance to communicate insights.

Above average knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel (Power BI advantageous)

Demonstrated alignment with company values