Oliver Wyman

**Job Specification**

Practice Group: Private Capital

Location: Toronto

**About Oliver Wyman**

**The Practice**

Oliver Wyman’s Private Equity team in North America is looking to hire Summer Associates to join its 10 week summer internship program. The team works with private equity investors throughout the deal transaction lifecycle: from opportunity identification through due diligence and post-transaction value realization. At Oliver Wyman, we take a multi-specialist approach to our engagements, bringing teams comprising both deep industry and functional expertise, supported by proprietary approaches and a world-class network. This enables our clients to achieve differentiated results, both on deals and post-transaction.

We have completed hundreds of engagements for leading private equity firms across North America, Europe, the Middle East, China and Southeast Asia creating sustainable shareholder value.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a successful team at the center of the firm’s strategy. Consultants are given the opportunity for rapid professional growth, to participate in entrepreneurial work, and to share in the achievement of the team.

**Role and Responsibilities**

We are not typical ‘management’ consultants. We provide industry
- and discipline-specific knowledge and expertise, which amplifies our impact and helps us shape the future for our clients.

The team is looking for current MBAs who have experience working in or are interested in focusing on one or a subset of various industries, serving private equity clients. These industries include: FinTech, InsurTech, Communications, Media and Technology (CMT), Education, Industrials and Healthcare.

You will break down complex strategic problems into discrete tasks and identify the key aspects of a problem across various industries and services within Private Equity. You will effectively manage the execution of individual project workstreams and multiple due diligence reviews. This typically includes but is not confined to:

- Develop hypotheses and execute complex quantitative analysis, through conducting and analyzing primary (complex survey and interviews) and secondary research.
- Drive development of primary research tools (interviews, surveys, focus groups) and analysis/distillation of insights.
- Driving insights through analysis of large datasets.
- Driving the story line of workstreams.

**Qualifications**

Oliver Wyman is a diverse and entrepreneurial partnership of individuals who like to pursue new opportunities or build a unique franchise doing what they do best in a collegial, fun environment.
- 2+ years of pre and/or post transaction experience working in private equity at a management consulting or PE firm.
- Some professional working experience with exposure to commercial and operational due diligence in a management consulting firm.
- Knowledge and in-depth experience with customer research techniques (interviews, surveys, focus groups, etc.).
- A strong background in strategic problem solving with demonstrable analytical skills.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in both formal and informal settings.
- Fluent in English.
- An undergraduate or advanced degree from a strong academic program.
- Know how to take the initiative, seeking out opportunities to learn new skills and put the ones you’ve already got to good use.
- Not just intelligence, but creativity too: you’ll be ready to come up with novel ideas to solve our clients’ biggest problems.
- An aptitude for analytical work, like sniffing out clues in massive data sets or hunting down the key issues in a hugely complex challenge.
- A willingness to work fluidly and respectfully with our incredibly talented team.

**Our Values & Culture**

We value people whose lives balance work and non-work activities because we believe they are both more interesting colleagues and are able to make better contributions to the Firm. We push ourselves hard to deliver excellence, but we also work to extract the maximum benefit from the flexibility of a project-based business. We provide the ability to take career breaks for personal or family reasons. We fundamentally value each other’s time and are sensitive to how it is used. We are an output not input-based culture, have respect for people’s personal decisions, and believe that one's workload must be sustainable. We seek balance for ourselves and our colleagues.