- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions
- Managing demanding internal and external clients in a positive, service-oriented way, and able to develop trust quickly, building solid, mutually respectful relationships
- Communicating with senior stakeholders, being credible and proactive
- Flexibility, patience, and an understanding of demanding, and unstructured environments where priorities evolve constantly
- Applying topic/sector expertise when contributing to building and deploying a product/tool/data, taking different client contexts into account
- Working collaboratively and effectively in a group dynamic often virtual, proficient in Agile ways of working
- Strong business sense, entrepreneurial mindset and view on digital trends
- Applying risk management expertise when contributing to building and deploying a product/tool/prototype, taking different client contexts into account
- Self-starter with high working standards and ethics, and ability to maintain discretion if needed
- Bachelor's or Master's degree (PhD or MBA can be of advantage) in business administration, economics, finance or other a suitable quantitative subjects, such as mathematics, physics, engineering
- At least 3 years of relevant industry experience in business intelligence or risk management (especially related to market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk) in commodity markets, e.g., power, gas or oil within either the financial institutions industry, the energy Industry or another industry with commodity focus, or at least 2 years related consulting experience
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills to interact with internal and external stakeholder while working in a global collaborative team environment
- Very good verbal and written communication skills in German and English Our knowledge and research specialists collaborate with global colleagues across BCG to bring expertise and capabilities to the service of our clients. Our team is made up of a diverse pool of knowledge and research positions that allow us to pursue exciting, innovative research careers.
Senior Knowledge Analyst - Düsseldorf, Deutschland - Boston Consulting Group
Beschreibung
WHAT YOU'LL DO
As a Senior Knowledge Analyst within BCG's Risk & Compliance Knowledge Team, you will work in a growing global team, support our consulting and client teams by providing expertise on risk management topics, especially related to market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk in commodity markets and industries exposed to commodity market risks.
You will contribute to the knowledge development and engagement for the broader Risk & Compliance practice across industries. Key activities include the development, ownership and maintenance of selected offerings, key benchmarks and databases (e.g., the BCG Power and Gas Trading benchmark survey) linking with the broader content coverage of the risk management topic, close interaction and navigation with the Expert Risk & Compliance Team and its topic leaders, in particular the Market and Commodity Risk team, as well as alignment on broader practice area activities with the practice area management.