Senior Associate – Performance Improvement Consulting

Job Description

(Senior) Associate, Performance Improvement | Alvarez & Marsal

The Tone:
This is a professional role at Alvarez & Marsal, located in Southeast Asia. Alvarez & Marsal is a global consulting firm that takes a hands-on approach to solving clients’ problems and assisting them in reaching their full potential. The company’s culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact their clients and shape the industry, fostering a collaborative environment guided by core values including Integrity, Quality, and Objectivity. This role is essential within the Performance Improvement Practice, supporting a wide range of engagements from transaction advisory to crisis management, focused on delivering rapid, bottom-line results for private equity and corporate clients.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Location: In-person – Southeast Asia
• Team: Performance Improvement Practice, working with Private Equity and Corporate clients globally.
• Mission: To support various complex and high-profile client engagements by providing critical research, analytical, modeling, and report preparation, with a focus on delivering rapid and measurable bottom-line improvements.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Research: Conduct comprehensive research and efficiently gather information from all relevant sources.
• Strategy Development: Utilize gathered information and expert knowledge to formulate strategic plans tailored for clients.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Cooperate closely with team leaders to understand and integrate diverse stakeholders’ perspectives into solutions.
• Task Management: Organize and prioritize multiple tasks effectively to ensure all deadlines are met consistently.
• Data Analysis & Presentation: Analyze statistical and market data thoroughly, perform detailed financial analysis, and summarize complex numerical information for clear presentations.

The Must-Haves
• Background: A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Engineering, or any major with a strong quantitative focus, coupled with a proven record of academic excellence.
• Experience: At least 3-5 years of professional experience specifically within Management Consulting.
• Skills: Excellent analytical skills, demonstrating logical and structured thinking, and creativity in problem-solving. This includes the ability to extract and infer useful information from large sets of unorganized or incomplete data. Strong organizational skills are crucial, encompassing the ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently. Superior interpersonal attributes are also required, including effective communication, strong soft skills, and a collaborative, results-oriented work style, alongside the ability to summarize complex numerical information for presentations.
• Bonus: Fluency in other ASEAN languages such as Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Vietnamese, Thai, or Tagalog. A high-energy, autonomous, get-it-done, and entrepreneurial mindset, with the ability to thrive in challenging and unpredictable environments. A keenness to go above and beyond with integrity and empathy to create lasting results, a passion for quality and objectivity in work, and the ability to collaborate selflessly as a team player are highly valued.