Graduate Position Description: Business Analyst
About GNG Partners
GNG Partners is a specialist strategy and execution advisory practice. We work alongside senior executives and Boards of leading public and private companies to solve their most critical challenges. We do this by providing objective advice and practical support that is guided by first principles problem solving and detailed analysis built on decades of experience across strategic advisory and executive leadership roles.
Our core competencies include:
Growth strategy development and corporate direction-setting
Operating model design and organisational alignment
Strategy implementation planning and support to benefit realisation
Our value proposition to clients is built on:
Hands-on senior leaders. Our Partners and Senior Advisors apply their top-tier consulting and executive experience through deep involvement in the problem-solving process.
Small teams working alongside management. We work in relatively small teams together with management to maximise alignment and minimise disruption.
Fact-based problem solving. Our strategic advice is grounded in thorough analyses of each client’s situation, led by the data and unconstrained by conventional wisdom.
Practical and actionable advice. We provide recommendations that are implementable in the real world and support our clients to ensure benefits are realised.
Flexible engagement model. We often align our fees with client outcomes and have flexibility in regards to project duration and size.
Our areas of expertise:
Sector
Agriculture
Aviation
Consumer goods
Energy
Financial Services
Insurance
Mining and minerals processing
Oil & gas
Property
Retail
Technology
Telecommunications
Transport and logistics
Healthcare
Functional
Corporate strategy
Operating model design
Performance improvement
Process improvement
Value chain analysis
Synergy realisation
Customer segmentation
Behavioural economics
Brand and marketing
Digital performance
New market entry
Pricing
Product development
Value proposition development
Your role
You will be working alongside Partners, Senior Advisors and other experienced team members to solve our clients’ most pressing problems. Your time will be split between the GNG Partners office overlooking the Sydney Harbour and our clients’ offices working alongside their teams.
Our flexible engagement model means you will get to work across a wide range of business sizes and industries. This will include high-growth technology scale-ups and some of the largest brands globally and everything in between.
You will be responsible for undertaking critical analysis and problem-solving to inform recommendations for Senior Executives. This could include:
Market entry and exit opportunities
Brand expansion and consolidation
Acquisition and divestment opportunities
Customer segmentation and targeting
Growth opportunities across marketing, product, pricing and channel opportunities
Operational improvement opportunities
You will be given guidance and opportunities that will enable you to quicky progress your career and understand how to have influence at the highest levels of a business, learning from Partners and Senior Advisors who have decades of experience across both strategy and deliver. You will get to see the impact of this work in our clients’ decisions across all areas of the economy.
About you
To be a successful Business Analyst at GNG Partners you should:
enjoy working across diverse industries and solving diverse problems
be passionate about analysing and interpreting data that is going to drive clients’ decisions
be a highly motivated learner supported by a strong academic track record
be comfortable working in small non-hierarchical teams and ambiguous problems
have strong written and verbal communication skills
take satisfaction on having a positive client impact
be highly motivated and energetic, with collegial and sharing work style
be adaptable, resourceful, and have a strong work ethic needed to thrive on a small team facing challenging business problems for clients
have high professional integrity and sound business judgment when working with colleagues and clients