
Working Student Financial Systems
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Job description
McKinsey & Company published this listing. We've added our own working-student context below — what this role means for your weekly hours, take-home pay and student visa as a student in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Description provided by McKinsey & Company
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.
You will work as part of a small and well-established team to support an ongoing effort to redesign, restructure and document key elements of our financial systems, most notably the record-keeping aspect.
This includes administering and feeding the local document management system, creating and monitoring completeness checks, flagging issues, fixing minor ones and collaborating on solving larger issues.
You will be performing similar tasks on other, smaller local systems, always keeping an eye out for possible improvements and automation potential regarding the processes in which you are involved.
You will also be supporting the larger finance team with month-end closing tasks, gathering information and assembling statutorily required reports, and support other sub-teams within the finance department with your skills.
Your work will help us to maintain our service level towards senior leadership and other internal clients as well as maintain our statutory obligations as a company.
You will be based in the Düsseldorf office, the administrative hub of the firm’s German branch, for the 2 year fixed term of this contract.
Your Qualifications and Skills
- Currently enrolled in a university program in business, business-related IT, or information science, graduation 2028
- Prior work experience would be a bonus but is not required.
- Very good Excel skills and basic database knowledge.
- Diligent and structured worker with an affinity for data and numbers.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Ability to work in-person in Dusseldorf (team schedules may vary - 16h per week during semester) - 2 year contract.
- Ability to operate office equipment and handle transportation of materials or objects, when required.
- Ability to communicate effectively – both verbally and in writing – in English; German-language skills a bonus.
Working student essentials
What this Finance working student role in Düsseldorf means for you — the weekly-hours rules, social-contribution perks, and what international students should check before applying.
Weekly hours
Working students may work up to 20 hours a week during the semester and full-time during the breaks. Staying within this keeps your student status and the Werkstudent benefits.
Working student rulesSocial contributions
Under the Werkstudentenprivileg you're exempt from health, care and unemployment insurance contributions — only pension insurance applies. That leaves more net pay than a regular job.
Check your insuranceInternational students
Non-EU students can work 140 full or 280 half days per year (raised from 120/240 in March 2024). A working student contract usually fits within this — confirm the exact limits printed on your residence permit.
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