Who You'll Work With

You will be part of McKinsey's Ethics & Compliance function, whose mission is to enable McKinsey's client impact and innovation, while managing risks to the firm, our clients, and our people. The Ethics & Compliance function is a globally integrated team within the second line of defense of the firm.

Since 2018, we have invested significantly to strengthen our risk management teams, capabilities, and processes as part of our ambition to lead our industry, and we have recruited some of the world's best talent to help. Among other enhancements, we introduced an industry-leading client service framework, which helps us vet each new client and guides our approach to engagements. Our commitment extends to our suppliers and internal systems, where we have improved cybersecurity controls, data and document retention, and process management.

Annually, our colleagues participate in a rigorous Professional Standards and Risk training program, and we have a 100 percent completion rate.

Your impact within our firm

You will play a key role in building and driving our firm-wide Ethics program by managing strategic and operational initiatives for the Ethics pillar.

We have significantly increased the combined size of our internal Risk, Legal, and Ethics & Compliance functions by adding senior executive professionals with strong, diverse background and external experiences. We are continually improving these processes and capabilities, which includes this Ethics role. As part of the role, you will work directly with global People, Risk, Ethics & Compliance, and Legal colleagues to embed a consistent and resonant approach across our firm.

Your role is responsible for conducting fact-finding and pre-investigation of matters, collaborating with others on the investigations as the generalist or serving as the lead case manager for potential violations of our policies, Code of Conduct, or the law (client/supplier conflicts, FCPA, antitrust, finance-related, etc.) You will also contribute to the development of end-to-end enhancements within the case management process, such as the design and implementation of pre-investigation procedures and investigation protocols.

You will work directly with multiple stakeholders across the firm including People, Risk, and Legal colleagues, on investigations, questions or requests related to the Allegations Management program. This will include helping to identify key legal, regulatory & compliance matters throughout the lifecycle of a matter.

As part of your case management responsibilities, you will also monitor the end-to-end process of a matter, including tracking matter progress, helping to resolve open issues, and testing against internal and external standards, which will drive overall data management in systems for documentation, consistency, hygiene, reporting, and analysis purposes.

You will be responsible for ensuring oversight of capabilities, and visually presenting information for key audiences. You will research and document best practices for information sharing with the team, our collaborators, and other functions on the handling of data and operations.

You will support the firm's mandatory disclosure processes on a cyclical and ad hoc basis. You will apply knowledge of policies and procedures to ensure our firm members are supported to disclose any potential individual conflicts and case manage any disclosures to completion. You will be responsible in developing a risk-based analysis, in partnership with subject matter experts, for reviews and remediation of disclosures.

You will assist in developing and evolving our technology and tools to enable our firm visibility and optimal data quality, ensuring we embed the needed tracking mechanisms and leverage a unified set of reporting systems and tools. You will also be expected to identify and leverage internal and external data to develop insights and compelling recommendations for our senior leaders on allegations management areas and corresponding policies.

You will work closely with other members of the Ethics & Compliance function and will be given latitude to drive and own relevant organizational, operational, or strategic initiatives of the Ethics team.

Your qualifications and skills

• Professional law degree (JD) strongly preferred
• 7+ years of relevant combined professional experience in ethics, compliance, and/or risk in a large corporate or professional services environment
• 3+ years of experience in developing, driving and implementing holistic ethics programs including issue management, investigations, and system implementation
• 3+ years in identifying legal, regulatory, and compliance issues and managing these issues through case management and/or investigations processes
• Experience in implementing and maintaining a personal conflicts of interest program, including case management of disclosures through to resolution
• Ability to raise awareness across the firm of critical legal, regulatory, and compliance related risks
• Experience in preparing remediation reports and presentations for leadership and identifying and communicating emerging risks
• Highly effective communicator with strong personal presence and credibility
• Experience in analyzing and integrating trends and patterns to determine root cause and identify remediation
• Adept at influencing and engaging with all types of audiences to cultivate trust-based, peer-counselor relationships
• Strong entrepreneurial drive and ownership mentality to progress on ambiguous problems and see them through to resolution
• Exceptional organizational and project management skills, with ability to drive global projects to outcomes, including on cross-functional and complex topics
• Exhibit highest levels of discretion and judgment in safeguarding confidential materials
• Passion for people development and experience leading teams and cross functional teams