KGS-Business Associate-Research-Bangalore

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities

We are recruiting for a Business Associate in the Research and Benchmarking team. Working as a Business Associate in the team, your responsibilities will include:

• Contribute to research and benchmarking assignments - either as a part of an ongoing client engagement, or as a part of business development efforts conducted by the entity

• Conceive and execute secondary research on:

·  Company: business model, segments, revenue model, strategy, issues / challenges, M&A history, competitive positioning, organization structure, key management, recent developments, SWOT, etc.
·  Market: industry value chain, size and growth outlook, trends and drivers, growth inhibitors and challenges, competitive landscape, Porter's / PESTLE analysis, etc.
·  Financials: broad analysis of income statement, balance sheet, cash flows, ratios, segment performance, etc.
·  Competitors: comparative performance of companies on financial and operational KPIs, relative strengths and weaknesses, etc. • Contribute to preparation of client deliverables (MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Word) - prepare client ready presentations that are well structured, logical and clear to understand

·  Undertake exhaustive research and benchmarking for deliverables and triangulate information and data points from various data sources
·  Logical thought structuring and ability to draw insights/so-what's in simple to mid-complex projects with guidance
·  Articulate findings through use of clear, concise, and grammatically correct business English (both written and verbal) • Understand client objectives, and context with minimal guidance, and relate research and benchmarking conducted to meet end objectives

• Thorough understanding of internal benchmarking databases

• Be able to identify and come up with proxies for data

• Specialize in one BM product (surveys or location assessment) and be able to execute it completely

• Be able to own parts of niche benchmarking engagements such as Functional BM, Financial BM and execute with minimal guidance

• Deliver parts of mid-complex projects with guidance

• Deliver error free output while adhering to project timelines and effort estimates

• Work with appropriate supervision and guidance from Team Lead/Assistant Manager/Manager
Work collaboratively with onshore KPMG teams in the development of and delivery of presentations and key findings