Best Consulting Firms in EMEA in Each Practice Area
Consultants across the region rate the top firms in their practice areas.
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McKinsey & Company EMEA
McKinsey consultants work in collaborative teams, have opportunities to make meaningful impact, and engage in challenges to stretch their abilities and further their expertise. McKinsey provides a culture that is distinctive and inclusive, focused on a personalized, flexible, dynamic environment that delivers high-performing and sustainable results. The firm is creating conditions for its colleagues to author their own journey and advance based on individual skills and impact.
39.68% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#1
Bain & Company EMEA
Bain & Company may operate presence in dozens of countries—with 26 offices in Europe, the Middle East & Africa—but that doesn’t keep the “heart” of the Big Three from functioning as one firm. Whichever path you pursue (and there are many), you’re sure to receive the same quintessential Bain experience that Bainies around the world say make this one of the most rewarding and enriching firms to join.
35.19% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#3
Boston Consulting Group EMEA
BCG operates in 50+ countries worldwide, with half of the locations based in Europe and the Middle East. The firm’s diverse, local, regional and global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise to organizations, helping them to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact. BCG partnered with almost 1,000 organizations in 2020 on 900+ social impact & sustainability projects and 400+ climate & environment projects.
33.50% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#2
Oliver Wyman EMEA
Oliver Wyman’s European presence spans almost two dozen countries in Europe and the Middle East. A people-focused firm that prides itself on connectedness and collaboration, Oliver Wyman strives to staff consultants on the projects that best suit their talents regardless of their home office. This makes international travel and opportunity the norm—not the exception.
21.48% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#4
EY Consulting Practice EMEA
Ernst & Young is one of the global Big Four accounting firms. They are best known for providing audit, tax, business risk, technology and security risk services, and human capital services. Through four service lines—assurance, consultancy, strategy, and transactions—they help transform businesses.
19.42% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#6
PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) International Ltd.
Casual jobseekers are forgiven for wondering, “Is PricewaterhouseCoopers an accounting firm, a consulting firm, or something else entirely?” The answer is “yes”, and therein lie the possibilities. The second-largest professional services firm in the world, PwC offers a wild amount of opportunities for employees and clients to join a global network of problem solvers dedicated to transforming the industries it serves.
16.38% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#7
Deloitte (EMEA Consulting Practice)
Deloitte is a global provider of audit, tax, financial services and consulting. The firm is one of the Big Four accounting organizations. Services include corporate strategy, marketing and sales strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and innovation; manufacturing operations including supply chain; sector-specific service operations; infrastructure operations including outsourcing advisory and shared services; and financial management.
15.66% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#5
KPMG (Europe Consulting Practice)
KPMG is a multinational professional services network and one of the Big Four accounting firms. Organized as a network of firms that each bring services to clients, KPMG spans strategy and operations, analytics, business integration, business intelligence, business process management, change management, growth enablement, integrated business planning, organizational design, outsourcing, shared services, talent management, technology enablement, and transformation. On the risk management side, they offer advisory services in financial risk management, forensic, internal audit, risk and compliance, and IT.
12.86% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#8
Alvarez & Marsal EMEA
A&M provides global leadership, problem-solving, and value creation for companies across industries and around the world. The firm’s consultants work as advisers, interim leaders, and partners who tell clients what they need to know, not always what they want to hear. The firm is focused on practical, action-oriented advice for its clients, rather than theoretical.
8.37% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#9
Mazars EMEA
Mazars is a global consulting firm, specializing in audit, accountancy, tax, legal, and advisory services. Audit has been at the core of the firm's expertise for more than 70 years. This is complemented by a balanced portfolio of consulting and financial advisory, as well as tax, compliance, and legal services. Their consultants help business leaders and management teams handle industry challenges ranging from disruptive competition, talent wars, technology, regulation changes, international policy changes, and other critical factors.
7.04% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#10
Roland Berger EMEA
As the first consultancy native to Europe to expand internationally, Roland Berger’s identity is deeply entwined with the concept of global community. The firm operates on the idea that businesses must focus on the long play: sustainable economic, environmental, and social change on a global scale instead. Jobseekers who lead with heart and future-forward priorities should seek out a firm working actively to bring meaning to the consulting industry.
5.95% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#11
AlixPartners EMEA
With offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, AlixPartners is an international advisory firm that built its reputation through its work in corporate turnaround and restructuring. The firm is often associated with reversing the fortunes of companies in high-impact situations. The ideal hire is someone with around a decade of industry experience, who will be able to hit the ground running and immediately begin impacting a client's business.
5.70% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#12
Mercer Limited EMEA
Mercer is a business of Marsh & McLennan, a global professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy, and people. A consistently high-ranking firm for HR consulting, Mercer works on human capital challenges facing some of the world’s best companies. Insiders say that in addition to the collegial and collaborative culture, what Mercer employees value most about working there is their colleagues' "intellectual horsepower, the depth and breadth of their collective knowledge base, and their stellar interpersonal and client-relations skills."
4.61% of Votes
2024 Ranking
#13
Arthur D. Little EMEA
While the consulting industry as we know it today began in Boston more than a century ago with Arthur D. Little, more than 50 percent of the firm’s employees now work across its numerous European offices. This, combined with several Middle Eastern offices serving the entire region, make Arthur D. Little a truly global experience for any jobseeker looking to see the world while they’re changing it.
4.25% of Votes
2024 Ranking
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NERA Economic Consulting EMEA
NERA Economic Consulting understands what many people can’t: economics. The firm provides economic advice, analysis, expert testimony, and regulatory insight for global clients throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. NERA specializes in bringing academic analysis and rigor, objectivity, and real-world industry experience to bear on issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation.
3.88% of Votes
2024 Ranking
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