Business Consultant Intern

Please note: This programme is non-remunerated and is uniquely open for students and recent graduates. Are you looking for a career in consultancy? Do you want to get your hands on real-world internships before stepping into the job market? Look no more.

About Us: Blackmont Consulting is a student-run organisation created to connect students with the professional world. At Blackmont, we implement rigorous analysis to help organisations achieve practical results with real impact. Our varied groups hail from all corners of the globe and give all-encompassing, significant, and basic counsel to ace all stages from conception to scaling. We are uncompromising in our approach to helping clients consistently make better decisions, deliver improved business performance, and create greater shareholder returns. As a member of our consulting team, you’ll join cases that reshape business, government, and society. You’ll collaborate on challenging projects with team members from many backgrounds and disciplines, increasing your understanding of complex business problems from diverse perspectives and developing new skills and experience to help you at every stage of your career—at Blackmont and beyond.

Our Mission: To help non-profits, social enterprises, and start-ups make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in their performance and to build a great firm that attracts, develops, excites, and retains exceptional people.

Our Values:

• Sustainability: Integrating sustainable practices into your operations and advising clients on sustainable and responsible business practices.
• Ethical Leadership: Upholding high ethical standards in leadership and consulting practices, ensuring integrity and transparency in all interactions.
• Measurable Impact: Prioritising the measurement and evaluation of social impact, ensuring that your consulting services result in tangible and positive outcomes.
• Social Impact Commitment: We are committed to social impact by offering free services, aiming to contribute to positive change and support community-focused organisations.
• Advocacy for Social Change: Advocating for social change and actively supporting initiatives that address systemic issues and contribute to a more just and equitable society.

Key duties include:

• Consultants will be working in teams of 4-6 to tackle real-world business problems over the course of the project.
• Market trend predictions and suggestions.
• Develop solutions for complex client situations to ensure the meeting of goals and objectives and deliver results on time.
• Development of primary research sources among industry contacts and customers, suppliers, and competitors of the companies you are researching.
• Understand sector, currency, political, and regulatory risks where applicable.
• Financial analysis and modelling of companies under your coverage.
• Analysing financial performance, returns on capital, and valuation.
• Determine, develop, and deliver innovative strategies and tools to target new and current clients.
• Take charge of identifying information sources, gathering and interpreting data, executing analysis, and presenting findings to case team members and client stakeholders.

The Program and Requirements:

• We are always looking for bright people who can help us provide outstanding business solutions to our clients.
• Ability to commit to this position for a minimum of three months.
• The programme is self-paced and is carried out online.
• Previous working experience is advantageous but not essential.
• Be in your first, second, or last year at university. Master’s and PhD students are also accepted.
• This programme is non-remunerated, and if selected, you will need to become a Blackmont member to support the organisation's maintenance through our website.

Please note that the membership is allocated to cover the website, software programs and the courses and training we give at Blackmont. We are a non-profit organisation, and we don’t charge our clients, but we do have costs to cover.