Analyst, Performance Improvement

Description

Who we are
Companies, investors, and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) for leadership, action and results. A&M’s leadership is about a bias towards action and the willingness to tell clients what we think is needed. When conventional approaches are not enough to create transformation and drive change, clients select us for our deep expertise and ability to create and deliver practical, rather than theoretical, solutions to their unique problems.

Privately held since its founding in 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that provides advisory, business performance improvement and turnaround management services. We are experienced operators, world-class consultants, former regulators, and industry authorities with a shared commitment to telling clients what’s really needed for turning change into a strategic business asset, managing risk, and unlocking value at every stage of growth.

What we do
The Performance Improvement Practice works with Private Equity and Corporate clients all over the world. We offer end-to-end services throughout the investment life cycle by furnishing transaction advisory, performance improvement, turnaround, interim and crisis management. Our areas of expertise include pre-M&A due diligence, merger integration, post-M&A growth strategy, corporate finance advisory, organizational and cost transformation, supply chain and manufacturing operational improvement, interim and crisis management, and CFO finance leadership. We differentiate ourselves by the result-driven approach, the hands-on mindset, and the ability to provide leadership amidst complex situations.

A&M is rapidly expanding in Southeast Asia and seeking to hire Associates who will be responsible for research, analytical / problem solving, modeling, and report / presentation preparation, to support various engagements of complex and high-profile situations. He/she is required to deliver rapid results with focus on bottom-line improvement.

Why A&M?

• Environment for Growth: Under the guidance of experienced team leaders, you will have many opportunities to develop at A&M. Furthermore, as we expand, you will meet and interact with a diverse set of colleagues committed to your professional growth.
• Flexible Work Arrangements: We respect work-life balance and take a flexible stance towards working hours; the focus is on results. Work-from-home arrangements are available within each team.

We value:

• Integrity - Never let financial gain compromise integrity
• Quality - Always value quality people and quality work
• Objectivity - Do your homework before you form conclusions
• Fun - Like what you do and with whom you do it
• Personal Reward - Perform interesting work with interesting people and achieve results that matter
• Inclusive Diversity - Embrace diversity, foster inclusiveness and reward merit

Key Responsibilities:

Support project teams in their delivery, with tasks including:

• Conducting research and gather from all sources of information
• Using gathered information and expertise to craft proposals and projects for our clients
• Cooperating with the team leader to understand different stakeholders’ perspective
• Organizing and prioritizing tasks on hand to meet deadlines.
• Analyzing & presenting statistical & market data, and performing financial analysis

We are seeking:

• Bachelor’s degree holders (fields of studies with quantitative focus will be preferred) with proven record of academic excellence; or students in their final year of study to graduate in 2026
• Excellent analytical skills, logical and structured thinking, creative in problem solving
• Ability to extract/infer useful information from large sets of unorganized or incomplete data
• Strong organizational skills, including ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently
• Superior interpersonal attributes including communication and soft skills, ability to work in a team, results/performance-oriented work style
• Ability to summarize complex numerical information for presentations
• Fluent in written and spoken English, fluency in other ASEAN languages (Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese, Thai or Tagalog) a plus
• Malaysians / non-Malaysians permitted to work in Malaysia

Personal Style

• High energy, autonomous, get-it-done, entrepreneurial mindset—seizing small moments to make them bigger
• Thrives in a fast-paced, challenging, and unpredictable environment—looking beyond constraints for solutions
• Has the ability to project fun and a sense of achievement into the work that they do and team that they join
• Keenness to go above and beyond, with integrity and empathy, to create lasting results
• Passionate about quality and objectivity of your work
• Ability to collaborate selflessly & be a team player

If this sounds like you, we want to get to know you better. Contact us and get to know us better!

OVERVIEW OF A&M SOUTHEAST ASIA AND AUSTRALIA

Alvarez & Marsal established its Southeast Asia and Australia presence in 2017 and has in the last year scaled up rapidly across the region, with 10 offices now in Singapore (HQ), Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City; these are complemented by our offices in North Asia in Greater China (Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing) & Seoul and India (Mumbai, Bengalaru, New Delhi). Our experienced team has an average of more than 15 years’ experience and combines top-tiers consultants and C-level executives from different industries and is led by Utsav Garg, Managing Director and Head, Southeast Asia and Australia. Our clients include private equity firms as well as well-known local and multinational corporations across Southeast Asia and Australia.