Kearney Business Analyst 2026

Full-timeAmericasAtlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York, San Francisco, Washington DC

Job Description

As a Business Analyst at Kearney, you will contribute to consulting project teams as they offer honest advice and practical guidance to our clients. Depending on each client’s unique needs, projects can differ in length, size, and location, giving you unique, hands-on experiences across a range of industries and service practices. 

 

Working alongside a dedicated and diverse set of people, you will broaden your knowledge and experience in an open, agile, and collaborative environment. With the freedom to be yourself and recognition for what you bring to the table, you can put your purpose into action and help build a future that works for everyone, everywhere—as a Kearney Original.  

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure the success of projects by completing tasks such as gathering and analyzing data and conducting competitor assessment studies. 

  • Support project workstreams and teams as you work alongside clients to create recommendations and implement co-created solutions. 

  • Assist the firm’s business development through generating proposals. 

  • Contribute to the development of thought leadership and other internal and external reports and articles.  

  • Participate in firm building opportunities, e.g. recruiting, training, and mentoring. 

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Who you are 

After nearly 100 years, we know this business is fundamentally about making connections—between facts, figures, insights, strategies, tools, technologies, and above all, people. That’s why we look for collaborative, insightful, and inquisitive problem-solvers who do not accept the first thing in front of them and who are always unapologetically themselves. 

 

We want to hear from you if you are: 

  • Ready to share your ideas and contribute as soon as you join a team 

  • Analytically inclined and enjoy solving problems 

  • Able to prioritize and are a doer by nature 

  • Looking to kick-start your career in consulting 

  • In your final year of your undergraduate degree 

  • Fluent in English

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What we can offer you 

Every day, our people work to be the difference for our clients, our communities, and our colleagues. Helping them make an impact, they are sustained by a competitive remuneration package plus comprehensive benefits and perks, including but not limited to: 

  • Generous retirement/pension savings contributions 

  • Comprehensive medical insurance for employees

  • Structured and on-the-job learning and development opportunities 

  • Personalized opportunities, including talent mobility, flexible work programs, and externships to help you chart a unique career journey to pursue your own personal and professional goals 

  • Read more about our benefits and how you can a make your mark, your way at Kearney.com/careers. 

 

Practice Preferences 

You are eligible for the four practices below. During your application you will have the option to pick your ranking of the practices below.

 

General Practice: Our general practice allows our junior consultants to gain experience across functions prior to selecting a practice alignment, which typically occurs by the senior associate or manager level. 
 

Digital & Analytics (D&A): As technological shifts continue to disrupt industry, our clients face challenges that demand pragmatism, innovation, and a relentless focus on results. Our recently combined Digital and Analytics practice is uniquely positioned to address these challenges by helping clients think better, build better, and scale better. In doing so, we aim to become the leading digital, data, AI, and analytics firm for strategic operations, the trusted partner for CEOs, COOs, CIOs, CDOs, and CTOs for their most important digital and technology-driven transformations, and the consultants of choice in an AI-enabled world.


Strategic Operations: The Strategic Operations analyst role is the entry level position aligned to our Strategic Operations practice. Consultants who join the Strategic Operations team will work across industries. Candidates with a strong interest or background in operations (plan, make, source or deliver) should consider this role.  

 

Mobility, Defense, and Advanced Industries (MDI): The automotive, aerospace and defense, transportation, travel, industrial products, and infrastructure practice integrates all the capabilities of the end-to-end mobility value chain. From innovative product design to complex engineering infrastructure, our industries represent the backbone of the global economy

   

KEARNEY MUST CONSIDER CURRENT U.S. IMMIGRATION RULES AND OBLIGATIONS FOR OUR FULL-TIME ENTRY LEVEL ROLES, ESPECIALLY WHERE VISA SPONSORSHIP IS REQUIRED. FOR THIS REASON, WE ARE UNABLE TO CONSIDER BUSINESS ANALYST CANDIDATES THAT REQUIRE VISA SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE, THIS INCLUDES STEM OPT EXTENSIONS.

 

Apply now

Submit your cover letter, CV, and academic transcripts (.doc or .pdf format only) via our website before Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 11:59 pm CST.

 

Interview Process  

Candidates interested in North American offices (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.) will have virtual first round interviews on September 17 and September 18, 2025. Final round interviews will be held on September 26, 2025 virtually. If you are invited to first round interviews, you will receive a notice from a Kearney recruiter to schedule your interview.  

 

 

Equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination 
Kearney prides itself on providing a culture where our employees belong and thrive equally, which means our people feel comfort, confidence, and joy as they do great things for our firm, our colleagues, and our clients. That’s why Kearney is committed to building a diverse workforce and inclusive environment. Kearney is an equal opportunity employer; we recruit, hire, train, promote, develop, and provide other conditions of employment without regard to a person’s gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other differences consistent with applicable laws. This includes providing reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs and practices. We encourage everyone to apply, including those who may not feel historically represented in consulting.