Analyst - Payments - BCG Vantage

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What You'll Do As an Analyst – BCG Vantage within BCG's Payments and FinTech Practice Area, you will work in a growing global team, providing industry or functional expertise and insights, working together with BCG case and proposal teams to deliver customized knowledge assets and expert advisory. Additionally, you will support your topic in developing existing & new intellectual property and knowledge assets. You will work on commercialization efforts for the topic/sector, with business leaders, supporting marketing efforts, conferences and publications. As an Analyst – BCG Vantage you will assist with on-boarding, training and guiding junior colleagues and share best practices within the team. Payments and FinTech is one of the fastest growing practice at BCG. We work with all players across the value chain - from Merchants to Issuers - across a broad array of topics. In this role, you will get exposed to entire waterfront of our work in the practice and get to work with a caring and growth oriented team. You will work on data models and will be part of the global team. You will get a chance to work on international topics / markets.

What You'll Bring Strong business acumen and problem-solving capabilities 1-2+ year of relevant work experience in Payment’s preferred, specifically in data analytics, product roles Or Bachelor's degree, with strict minimum of 2+ years of relevant work experience in Payments Fluency in English; Strong written and verbal communication skills. You're good at:

• Applying payments topic 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
• Communicating with senior stakeholders, being credible and proactive
• Framing, structuring, and sharing intellectual property, with the ability to write clearly and concisely
• Working creatively and analytically in a time-limited, problem-solving environment
• Flexibility and bring a curious and creative mindset, open for new things and able to propose innovative ideas
• Ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity
• Interacting with internal and external stakeholders while working in a global collaborative team environment

Who You'll Work With As an Analyst – BCG Vantage you will collaborate with global topic leads and colleagues across BCG to bring expertise and capabilities to the service of our internal and external clients. Our team is made up of a diverse pool of BCG Vantage positions that allow us to pursue exciting, innovative BCG Vantage careers.

Additional info BCG Vantage is a powerhouse of expertise, seamlessly embedded within Practice Areas and markets to drive extraordinary impact. It equips BCG case teams and clients with cutting-edge expertise, proprietary assets, actionable data, and transformative insights that empower our case teams and enable our clients to achieve their aspirations. With global experts across 20 Practices, covering more than 100 topics, sectors and offers, plus four focused geographic markets, BCG Vantage delivers unparalleled depth and breadth of insight & expertise. BCG Vantage consists of three career paths, each playing a crucial role in delivering value to clients, case teams and practice teams.

• Topic Activation (Sector Expertise with Proprietary Tool & Data Solutions) Combines deep domain insights with our know-how and proprietary assets to address targeted challenges directly with clients and project teams; co-creates insights on industry trends and functional topics, proprietary data and tools, and teams to codify IP that all enables BCG to deliver excellent business value with its clients.