Who You'll Work With
You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.
In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.
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. Plus, you'll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- Exceptional 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
We are hiring a Specialist in Reconciliation Operations for both Chennai and Gurgaon. As a Specialist, you will lead and develop the offshore team responsible for ensuring accurate and timely financial reconciliations across global operations.
You will drive performance excellence by setting clear objectives and KPIs, overseeing the resolution of complex exceptions, and ensuring that all reconciliation activities meet defined service levels and compliance standards.
As part of the McKinsey Optimize function, you'll play a key role in shaping operational excellence by building strong stakeholder relationships across Procurement, Payments, and Finance, ensuring our reconciliation processes support the firm's strategic priorities and risk management objectives. Your work will directly contribute to a seamless financial operations experience, improved data accuracy, and stronger vendor partnerships across the global network.
In this role, you'll act as a process expert and problem solver, partnering with Payments Specialists, Product Managers, and Optimize leaders to design, refine, and implement best-in-class reconciliation practices. You will identify improvement opportunities, introduce automation and efficiency enhancements, and promote a high-performance culture focused on quality, accountability, and continuous learning.
Your Qualifications and Skills
- Undergraduate degree required; advanced degree (e.g., MBA, finance, or related field) or equivalent work experience preferred
- 5+ years of experience in reconciliation operations, financial accounting, or a related area, including team leadership or offshore delivery experience
- Proven expertise in reconciliation processes, vendor or supplier management, and outsourced service delivery environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage daily operational performance against established KPIs and SLAs
- Proficiency in using Excel and data management tools to analyze large datasets, identify discrepancies, and develop process improvements
- Exceptional time management in a dynamic, autonomous work environment
- Flexibility to work outside traditional business hours to support global operations as needed
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, adaptable to diverse audiences and seniority levels
