Research Analyst

As a management consultant or business analyst, your job is to help businesses run better and make smarter decisions. You spend time understanding their problems, looking at the numbers, and working out what should change. Then you help them make those changes happen, and check they actually work.

Every day is different. One day you might be digging through spreadsheets and sales figures. The next, you could be sitting with the boss and the team, explaining what you found and talking through ideas. You need to be good at spotting patterns in data, asking sharp questions, and explaining tricky stuff in ways people actually understand.