115 Mckinsey Company jobs in South Africa

Who You'll Work With
Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won't find anywhere else.

When you join us, you will have:

• Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
• A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You'll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
• Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm's diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you'll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.

Your Impact
You will typically work in teams of 3-5 consultants to help clients achieve new performance highs.

In this role, you will make an important contribution to the analysis, design and implementation of business performance approaches, developing tailor-made solutions and working closely with clients to ensure positive impact and sustainable results. This includes gathering and analyzing information, formulating and testing hypotheses and developing recommendations for presentation to client management. From there, you will implement those recommendations with client team members.

You will also gain new skills and build on the strengths you bring to the firm. You will receive exceptional training as well as frequent coaching and mentoring from colleagues on you team.

You will join our Johannesburg office and work with the McKinsey Digital practice. This group brings together the best of McKinsey's digital capabilities to help our clients use digital technology to transform their businesses.

As part of this group, you will join a global team working on everything from IT modernization and strategy to agile, cloud, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. You will typically work on projects across all industries and functions and will be fully integrated with the rest of our global firm. You will also work with colleagues from across McKinsey & Company to help our clients deliver breakthrough products, experiences, and businesses, both on technology and non-technology topics.

Our office culture is casual and social, with an emphasis on education and innovation. We have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and are expected to be constantly learning and growing. There is also a strong emphasis on mentoring others in the group, enabling them to grow and learn.

Your Qualifications and Skills

• Strong academic performance; advanced degree preferred
• 5+ years of relevant experience in IT management, IT architecture and technology delivery and technology-enabled operations and foundation
• Solid track record of professional success in an IT strategy consulting firm, a high performing IT department, a technology company, a technology-leveraged business, or managing large IT projects (experience as traditional IT consultants, CIOs, CTOs, senior level IT executives, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to identify business issues, form hypotheses, design and conduct analyses, and synthesize conclusions into recommendations
• Distinctive functional experience in strategy, technology, operations, products, general management, consulting and/or deep industry knowledge in industries such as financial services, high tech, energy/utilities, telecom, retail, etc.
• Strong IT generalist skills
• Strong general business acumen; broad understanding of current IT trends and technologies, their impact on business strategy, and implications for senior managers in creating and sustaining competitive advantage and transforming business processes
• Outstanding problem solving skills; analytic/quantitative comfort
• Team player/leader; mentor; thought leader; collaborative partner
• Exceptional interpersonal skills; strong executive presence

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• Johannesburg

Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you've come to the right place.

YOUR IMPACT

You will typically work in teams of 3-5 consultants to help clients achieve new performance highs.

In this role, you will make an important contribution to the analysis, design and implementation of business performance approaches, developing tailor-made solutions and working closely with clients to ensure positive impact and sustainable results. This includes gathering and analyzing information, formulating and testing hypotheses and developing recommendations for presentation to client management. From there, you will implement those recommendations with client team members.

You will also gain new skills and build on the strengths you bring to the firm. You will receive exceptional training as well as frequent coaching and mentoring from colleagues on you team.

You will join our Johannesburg office and work with the McKinsey Digital practice. This group brings together the best of McKinsey's digital capabilities to help our clients use digital technology to transform their businesses.

As part of this group, you will join a global team working on everything from IT modernization and strategy to agile, cloud, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. You will typically work on projects across all industries and functions and will be fully integrated with the rest of our global firm. You will also work with colleagues from across McKinsey & Company to help our clients deliver breakthrough products, experiences, and businesses, both on technology and non-technology topics.

Our office culture is casual and social, with an emphasis on education and innovation. We have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and are expected to be constantly learning and growing. There is also a strong emphasis on mentoring others in the group, enabling them to grow and learn.

YOUR GROWTH

Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won't find anywhere else.

When you join us, you will have:

• Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
• A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You'll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
• Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm's diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you'll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Strong academic performance; advanced degree preferred
• 5+ years of relevant experience in IT management, IT architecture and technology delivery and technology-enabled operations and foundation
• Solid track record of professional success in an IT strategy consulting firm, a high performing IT department, a technology company, a technology-leveraged business, or managing large IT projects (experience as traditional IT consultants, CIOs, CTOs, senior level IT executives, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to identify business issues, form hypotheses, design and conduct analyses, and synthesize conclusions into recommendations
• Distinctive functional experience in strategy, technology, operations, products, general management, consulting and/or deep industry knowledge in industries such as financial services, high tech, energy/utilities, telecom, retail, etc.
• Strong IT generalist skills
• Strong general business acumen; broad understanding of current IT trends and technologies, their impact on business strategy, and implications for senior managers in creating and sustaining competitive advantage and transforming business processes
• Outstanding problem solving skills; analytic/quantitative comfort
• Team player/leader; mentor; thought leader; collaborative partner
• Exceptional interpersonal skills; strong executive presence

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As a Data Engineer I, you will design and build scalable data pipelines, manage secure data environments, and prepare data for advanced analytics while collaborating with cross-functional teams and clients.

You’ll tackle real-world challenges, contribute to innovative AI solutions, and grow as a technologist by working alongside diverse experts across industries.

You’ll design and build scalable, reproducible data pipelines for machine learning, assess data landscapes, ensure data quality, and prepare data for analytics models. You’ll contribute to R&D projects and internal asset development, expanding your technical expertise.

Your work will address real-world challenges across industries. You’ll help build innovative machine learning systems that accelerate AI adoption and solve business problems at scale, enabling clients to achieve meaningful impact.

You’ll be based in one of our McKinsey Digital Africa offices—Johannesburg or Casablanca—as part of our global Data Engineering community. Working in cross-functional Agile teams, you’ll collaborate with Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and industry experts to deliver advanced analytics solutions. You’ll partner with clients, from data owners to C-level executives, to solve complex problems that drive business value.

This role offers an exceptional environment to grow as a technologist and collaborator. You’ll develop expertise at the intersection of technology and business by tackling diverse challenges and working with inspiring, multidisciplinary teams.

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience
• Up to 3 years’ experience building data pipelines in a professional setting (e.g., internship) would be considered a plus
• Ability to write clean and maintainable code in an object-oriented language, e.g., Python, Scala, Java
• Familiarity with analytics libraries (e.g. pandas, numpy, matplotlib), distributed computing frameworks (e.g. Spark, Dask), and cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Exposure to software engineering concepts and best practices, inc. DevOps, DataOps and MLOps will be beneficial
• While we advocate for using the right tech for the right task, we often leverage the following technologies: Python, PySpark, PyData stack, SQL, Airflow, Databricks, Kedro, Dask/RAPIDS, Docker and Kubernetes, cloud solutions such as AWS, GCP, and Azure, and more
• Exceptional time management to meet responsibilities in a complex and largely autonomous work environment
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, in English and local office language(s), with the ability to adjust your style to suit different perspectives and seniority levels

• Associate

• Full-time

• Consulting, Engineering, and Project Management

• Business Consulting and Services

Responsibilities

• Business Analysis & Strategy Alignment: Proven ability to elicit, document, and validate business requirements in a complex partnership-driven banking environment.
• Strong understanding of Alliance Banking models, including BaaS, white-label platforms, and embedded financial services.
• Ability to conduct gap analyses, feasibility studies, and cost-benefit analyses for proposed solutions.
• Experience in supporting business case development, particularly for new partner onboarding, product enhancements, or regulatory projects.

• Financial Services & Regulatory Knowledge: Strong grasp of banking products and services (e.g., payments, savings, credit, cards, collections, remittances).
• Familiarity with South African financial regulations including SARB, FSCA, FICA, and POPIA requirements.
• Exposure to risk, compliance, and audit processes, particularly in third-party/partner environments.

• Experience in documenting and improving end-to-end business processes, especially those involving external partners.
• Ability to model workflows using tools such as BPMN, Visio, or Lucidchart.
• Knowledge of control environments, KPIs, SLAs, and escalation frameworks across operational value chains.

• Competency in data-driven decision-making, including data profiling, reconciliation, and insights to support product performance.
• Ability to work with Excel, SQL, Power BI or equivalent to perform ad hoc analysis.
• Understanding of data governance and quality, especially in integrated partner environments.

• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience interfacing across IT, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Product, and external partners.
• Proven ability to act as a bridge between business and technical teams, ensuring shared understanding and execution.
• Confidence in participating in governance committees, product working groups, and external partner discussions.

• Hands-on experience in Agile/Scrum or hybrid project methodologies, including backlog grooming and sprint planning.
• Exposure to JIRA, Confluence, DevOps, Trello, or similar tools.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives and deliver under tight deadlines in a fast-paced Alliance environment.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a focus on clear, concise, and structured reporting.
• Ability to create and present business requirement documents (BRDs), functional specifications (FRDs), and user stories.
• Experience in preparing partner onboarding documentation, SOPs, and support playbooks.

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Information Systems, or related field (postgraduate advantageous).
• Minimum of 5-8 years' experience in business analysis within banking or FinTech environments.
• Certifications such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, Agile BA, or Lean Six Sigma are advantageous.

Overview

Alliance Banking Senior Business Analyst – Key Requirements

• 1. Business Analysis & Strategy Alignment Proven ability to elicit, document, and validate business requirements in a complex partnership-driven banking environment. Strong understanding of Alliance Banking models, including BaaS, white-label platforms, and embedded financial services. Ability to conduct gap analyses, feasibility studies, and cost-benefit analyses for proposed solutions. Experience in supporting business case development, particularly for new partner onboarding, product enhancements, or regulatory projects.
• 2. Financial Services & Regulatory Knowledge Strong grasp of banking products and services (e.g., payments, savings, credit, cards, collections, remittances). Familiarity with South African financial regulations including SARB, FSCA, FICA, and POPIA requirements. Exposure to risk, compliance, and audit processes, particularly in third-party/partner environments.
• 3. Process Design & Optimisation Experience in documenting and improving end-to-end business processes, especially those involving external partners. Ability to model workflows using tools such as BPMN, Visio, or Lucidchart. Knowledge of control environments, KPIs, SLAs, and escalation frameworks across operational value chains.
• 4. Data Analysis & Insights Competency in data-driven decision-making, including data profiling, reconciliation, and insights to support product performance. Ability to work with Excel, SQL, Power BI or equivalent to perform ad hoc analysis. Understanding of data governance and quality, especially in integrated partner environments.
• 5. Partner & Stakeholder Management Strong stakeholder management skills with experience interfacing across IT, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Product, and external partners. Proven ability to act as a bridge between business and technical teams, ensuring shared understanding and execution. Confidence in participating in governance committees, product working groups, and external partner discussions.
• 6. Project Management & Agile Delivery Hands-on experience in Agile/Scrum or hybrid project methodologies, including backlog grooming and sprint planning. Exposure to JIRA, Confluence, DevOps, Trello, or similar tools. Ability to manage multiple initiatives and deliver under tight deadlines in a fast-paced Alliance environment.
• 7. Documentation & Communication Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a focus on clear, concise, and structured reporting. Ability to create and present business requirement documents (BRDs), functional specifications (FRDs), and user stories. Experience in preparing partner onboarding documentation, SOPs, and support playbooks.
• 8. Qualifications & Experience Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Information Systems, or related field (postgraduate advantageous). Minimum of 5–8 years’ experience in business analysis within banking or FinTech environments. Certifications such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, Agile BA, or Lean Six Sigma are advantageous.

We are seeking a highly skilled Manager: Business Analysis to lead and enhance business analysis and reporting functions. This role will focus on developing innovative reporting tools, providing in-depth business performance analysis, and ensuring compliance with regulatory financial reporting requirements. The successful candidate will play a key role in budgeting, cost management, variance analysis, and financial decision-making support while also leading a team to drive business excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement new business analysis and reporting tools to improve performance tracking.
• Conduct data analysis to monitor business performance and provide strategic recommendations.
• Design and present reports for provincial and parliamentary authorities, ensuring compliance with relevant financial regulations.
• Oversee the annual budgeting cycle, ensuring alignment with operational timelines.
• Manage costing, pricing, and financial forecasting to support strategic decision-making.
• Monitor and analyze budget variances, capital expenditure, and business performance indicators.
• Support procurement by evaluating financial information for tenders.
• Lead and develop a team, ensuring skills transfer and adherence to policies and procedures.

Minimum Requirements & Competencies

• BCom degree in Finance or related field (NQF Level 7).
• CIMA qualification (advantageous).
• 8 years of finance experience (cost management & financial analysis), with at least 3 years in a managerial role.
• Strong knowledge of PFMA and financial statutory regulations.
• Expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning.
• Advanced computer literacy and database management skills.
• Proficiency in ERP systems (Oracle preferred).
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to meet strict deadlines.
• Leadership, change management, and stakeholder influence skills.

This is an exciting opportunity for a results-driven finance professional looking to contribute to a high-impact organization. If you meet the above requirements and are ready to take on this strategic role, apply now!

A leader within the retail industry is looking for an experienced Business Analysis Manager to join the team. This proudly South African company has been in existence for over half a century and has grown into a leader within the market.

The Successful candidate will be responsible for:

1. Coach and lead the business analysis team
2. Strategic thinking in how to provide the best solution for the business
3. Business process design and documentation expertise
4. Improve the quality of the business analysis team
5. Identify business opportunities
6. Risk management
7. Ensure all Project Issues are properly reported
8. Assist Group Financial Management Team with all financial reporting requirements
9. Assist with IT Audit requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information / Business Systems
• Proven experience as a Financial Business Analysis Manager

• 5 to 7 years experience within a similar role

R - R - Annually

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Rochelle Jansen
Recruitment Consultant

We are seeking a highly skilled Manager: Business Analysis to lead and enhance business analysis and reporting functions. This role will focus on developing innovative reporting tools, providing in-depth business performance analysis, and ensuring compliance with regulatory financial reporting requirements. The successful candidate will play a key role in budgeting, cost management, variance analysis, and financial decision-making support while also leading a team to drive business excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement new business analysis and reporting tools to improve performance tracking.
• Conduct data analysis to monitor business performance and provide strategic recommendations.
• Design and present reports for provincial and parliamentary authorities, ensuring compliance with relevant financial regulations.
• Oversee the annual budgeting cycle, ensuring alignment with operational timelines.
• Manage costing, pricing, and financial forecasting to support strategic decision-making.
• Monitor and analyze budget variances, capital expenditure, and business performance indicators.
• Support procurement by evaluating financial information for tenders.
• Lead and develop a team, ensuring skills transfer and adherence to policies and procedures.

Minimum Requirements & Competencies

• BCom degree in Finance or related field (NQF Level 7).
• CIMA qualification (advantageous).
• 8 years of finance experience (cost management & financial analysis), with at least 3 years in a managerial role.
• Strong knowledge of PFMA and financial statutory regulations.
• Expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning.
• Advanced computer literacy and database management skills.
• Proficiency in ERP systems (Oracle preferred).
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to meet strict deadlines.
• Leadership, change management, and stakeholder influence skills.

This is an exciting opportunity for a results-driven finance professional looking to contribute to a high-impact organization. If you meet the above requirements and are ready to take on this strategic role, apply now!