Associate – Corporate Finance CoE

About us

Bain & Company is a global management consulting firm that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. Across 65 offices in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition and redefine industries. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.

In 2004, the firm established its presence in the Indian market by opening the Bain Capability Center (BCC) in New Delhi. The BCC is now known as BCN (Bain Capability Network) with its nodes across various geographies. BCN is an integral and largest unit of (ECD) Expert Client Delivery. ECD plays a critical role as it adds value to Bain's case teams globally by supporting them with analytics and research solutioning across all industries, cross-industry capabilities, client development, private equity diligence or Bain intellectual property. The BCN comprises of Consulting Services, Knowledge Services and Shared Services.

Who you will work with

The Corporate Finance Center of Excellence (CF CoE) sits within Corporate Strategy & Finance (CS&F) solution. The CoE works as the innovation partner to the solution, enabling cutting-edge Intellectual property (IP) and Point of view (PoV) development and commercialization alongside client delivery. Our strength lies in our people, who are experts across corporate finance and capital markets, backed by solid capabilities around research, analytics, and stakeholder management.

The CF CoE works with Bain case teams and clients globally on the questions a CEO, CFO or board asks about value: how the company has created shareholder value and why, what its equity story should be, how capital should be allocated across the portfolio, what a business is worth, and how strategy and performance are communicated to investors. Alongside client casework, the team codifies Bain's corporate finance intellectual property and builds the AI-enabled tools and accelerators to deliver it. For more details, click here

Our work is industry agnostic. Over the course of a year an Associate can expect to work across sectors such as energy and natural resources, metals and mining, industrials, healthcare, consumer products, technology and financial services. Reading across business models and spotting the pattern that carries from one industry to the next is a core part of the role. The team operates out of BCN's Gurgaon office and our Mexico City office, and partners with Bain offices across the Americas, EMEA and APAC.

The team works in a heavily tech-enabled way. Proprietary tools and automated workflows handle a large share of the data assembly and first-cut analysis, which shifts the team's time toward judgment, cross-linking, and the 'so-what'. Associates are expected to work fluently in this way, to bring finance expertise beyond what the tools produce, and to help improve them.

Associates are expected to progressively provide significant direction on complex issues, and to help manage client and team meetings. Associates typically progress to Project Leader, taking on full case leadership and direct client ownership. Progression is based on demonstrated case leadership.

About you

Candidates should be graduates/postgraduates with specialization in finance with strong academic records

Work experience range in case highest qualification is undergraduate studies – 2-5 years of relevant experience in investment banking, equity research, corporate finance or valuation advisory, or consulting with corporate finance exposure

Work experience range in case highest qualification is postgraduate studies – 0.6-3 years of relevant experience in investment banking, equity research, corporate finance or valuation advisory, or consulting with corporate finance exposure

Strong understanding of financial statement analysis, ratio analysis, and underlying valuation principles, ability to connect financial performance to valuations

Experience building financial models from scratch, rather than only updating set templates, is valued. Focus is on how strategic choices affect value, rather than on arriving at a target price

Strong inclination towards Capital Markets and being updated on prevailing economic environment, stock markets and capital flows is a must

Ability to think through the impact of any change in one financial metric across financial statements, and its impact on valuation. Ability to make sense of financial data, such as reasons for high or low growth, margins, returns, multiples, leverage, and accompanying competitive dynamics

Cross-link different business models and multiple industries key dynamics, using key drivers/KPIs behind the operational and financial performance

Hands-on experience conducting company research, industry research, and investment-related research

Able to structure a clear storyline and build client-ready materials that carry an argument, and comfortable putting forward a point of view to a senior audience

Comfortable working with AI tools in day-to-day analytical work, with the discipline to check what they produce rather than accept it

Curiosity and willingness to learn new tools quickly as the team's toolkit evolves

Proficient professional with sound business logic and the ability to structure approaches to answer complex business questions

Excellent analytical, work planning, communication, and team player skills; the ability to handle multiple tasks and work under pressure

CFA / CA preferred. CA candidates must have Capital Markets / valuation exposure

Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint are required; working familiarity with AI tools is expected, and knowledge of Python is an added advantage

What you’ll do

Associates act as workstream leaders. They own a defined piece of the case answer end to end: framing the question, designi