Advisory- Deals Strategy - Core Delivery - Senior Associate

At PwC, our people in deals focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. They help clients navigate complex transactions and maximise value in their business deals. Those in deal strategy at PwC will focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. Your work will involve analysing market trends, assessing business opportunities, and developing strategic frameworks to guide clients in making informed decisions regarding their deals. You will help clients navigate complex transactions, identify potential risks and opportunities, and develop strategies to maximise value and achieve their business objectives. Working in this area, you will play a crucial role in assisting clients in formulating and executing effective strategies to optimise outcomes in their deal-making processes.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firms code of conduct, and independence requirements.
  
  

Work with the client engagement teams across the network to support global engagements from the KSDC offices, while ensuring the highest quality of deliverables and innovative solutioning, to meet and exceed Client requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage client relationships throughout projects, ensuring the successful delivery of identified opportunities and value
• Work independently to analyse data and generate clear, actionable insights
• Confidently present insights to senior internal and external stakeholders, taking ownership of the work delivered
• Understand operational business problems and requirements; breaking down problems to create a tailored approach to suit a business’ needs
• Developing, planning and supporting the delivery of operational improvement projects;
• Support in delivery of our bespoke digital analytic tools for clients, which analyse the operating cost base of the business - including performing financial analytics, visualisation and generating insight, recommendations and business plans for clients in line with standard operating procedures for these key services;
• Work on Deals assignments which will involve desk research and analysis like macroeconomic research, company profile creation, competitor benchmarking, financial benchmarking, etc;
• Perform project management activities, including working with and leading teams through delivery of assignments with clear communication and coordination across stakeholders;
• Identify and assess risks which could affect project delivery. Proactively highlight them to the key stakeholders;
• Prepare pitch decks and proposal presentations covering project scope and approaches, deliverables, and benefits; and
• Be responsible for internal initiatives of the Business Unit and contribute to our culture of continuous improvement, including the upskilling of other team members.
  
  

Essential Skills & Experience

• Demonstrated ability to analyse and transform financial and non-financial data into meaningful, actionable insights
• Strong presentation skills, with the ability to create clear, compelling PowerPoint slides
• Proven experience in communicating confidently findings to both internal teams and external stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal, presentation & excellent communication skills (Oral and Written to a high business English standard);
• Strong project management, organisational and Project delivery skills
• A solid understanding of operational business drivers and critical thinking to enable the “So what” analysis;
• A solid understanding of the components of working capital and influencing levers;
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Demonstrated experience utilising analytics and visualisation tools including but not limited to Qualtrics, Alteryx and Power BI (any certifications would be preferable e.g. Alteryx Core and Alteryx Advanced);
• Ability to multi-task and communicate effectively across teams in a high-performance culture and has a good sense of business English;
• Ability to work effectively in a globally dispersed team environment; and
• Working knowledge and understanding of current AI technology tools would be preferable.
  
  

Education

• Qualification: Chartered Accountant or MBA

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