Consultant - Private Equity & Principals Investors

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, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. 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 as a Consultant - Private Equity & Principals Investors

You will support client development efforts and investment decisions in the due diligence process as well as other private equity/investor work.

In this role, you will support teams with either market data about the Private Equity (PE) space and/or support due diligence engagements across the spectrum of pre-DD, DD and post-deal management. You will frequently contribute to knowledge management and knowledge building efforts.

This role differs from McKinsey’s generalist role in that you will focus entirely on serving investor clients. Because our clients invest across various sectors and types of companies, you will have exposure to a wide variety of sectors and functional levers. You will focus mainly on Korea yet have global exposure (cross geography and industry) and will have the opportunity to build deep functional capability around the private equity/principal investors industry and due diligence topics. You will also develop and institutionalize firm knowledge along the entire investment cycle, with a focus on the Asia and Korea PE industries.

Additionally, you will work with other McKinsey practices in Korea to build deep relationships, understand the firm culture, and gain important skills that can be applied for PE clients.

You'll work in our Seoul, Korea office as part of our Private Equity & Principal Investors (PEPI) team.

The Private Equity and Principal Investors team is the world’s leading adviser to the Private Equity and Principal Investing industry. In this role, you will work with investors of all types - PE firms, distressed debt/credit investors, hedge funds, real estate and infrastructure firms as well as the institutional investors these alternative investment managers serve including pensions, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and endowments.

You will be part of a team that is deeply integrated in the global firm, serving investors in all geographies including developed, developing and “frontier” markets.

Your Qualifications and Skills

• At least 1 year of experience at a transaction advisory, private equity, securities, strategy consulting or research firm with exposure to private equity/due diligence process
• Deep experience of PE firm investment, divestment and portfolio management activities
• Understanding and network of contacts in the large cap and mid-market private equity industry
• Excellent problem-solving skills including the ability to structure a problem, disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions
• Excellent analytical and modeling skills including the ability to understand the relevant analysis required to prove a hypothesis and the ability to gather information around it
• Excellent quantitative skills and strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to work well in a team setting; responsive to feedback
• Flexibility and an understanding of fluid, demanding and unstructured environments where priorities evolve constantly and methodologies are challenged regularly
• Fluent in English and Korean (both written and verbal)

Key skills/competency

• Private Equity
• Due Diligence
• Investment Analysis
• Financial Modeling
• Transaction Advisory
• Strategy Consulting
• Problem Solving
• Market Data Analysis
• Portfolio Management
• Korean Language (Fluent)