Advisory - Strategyand Value Creation - Working Capital - 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.

Job Description

You will join our Strategy& Value Creation team that combines our strategy consulting expertise with the vast capabilities of the PwC network. You will focus on key strategic challenges facing businesses, working on a diverse range of engagements - from supporting global, multi-billion-pound brands to advising private equity clients on how to maximise value across their portfolio companies.

In Turnaround and Performance Improvement, you will work on a variety of assignments supporting clients to implement operational changes, contribute to process improvements to improve the overall performance, cost and sustainability of their operations. You will work closely to PwC UK, working on projects together, interacting with UK members on daily basis.

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

• Assess a company’s working capital performance leveraging their balance sheet and P&L to calculate working capital KPIs
• Benchmark a company against competitors using public and proprietary information, using the output to draw conclusions on a company’s relative performance;
• Conduct analytics on ‘transactional data’ such as customer / supplier invoices, POs / Sales Orders, goods receipt / issues, material movement data and working capital financing to identify data insights on root cause drivers of working capital using analytical tools;
• Understand key business processes and support internal stakeholders to facilitate sessions on key processes driving working capital with clients to identify opportunities, such as setting contractual terms, collections, procurement, purchasing and supply chain
• Perform financial analysis of opportunities for working capital reduction, within the context of commercial requirements of the business;
• Conduct assessment of operational and management teams within an organisation, identifying skill gaps and training needs;
• Manage the end-to-end delivery of project work packages, delivering time-critical services to satisfy client deadlines;
• Identify and assess risks which could affect project delivery, proactively highlighting them to key stakeholders.
• Be responsible for internal initiatives of the Business Unit and contribute to our culture of continuous improvement, including the upskilling of other team members.
  
  

• Previous experience in Supply Chain, Credit Management/Receivables and Procurement roles, or Working Capital consulting experience in the UK or continental Europe;
• Experience in engagements to improve supply chain management, procurement, buying, collections management, inventory reduction or general working capital optimisation;
• Good end-to-end understanding of flows of goods and services, information and money and how different functions cooperate internally and externally;
• Sound financial analysis skills (collecting, manipulating and analysing financial and non-financial data), including strong use of Microsoft Excel;
• Strong commercial awareness and business analysis 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;
• Report writing skills, including use of Microsoft PowerPoint;
• Strong interpersonal, presentation & excellent communication skills (Oral and Written to a high business English standard);
• Strong project management, organisational and project delivery skills;
• Demonstrated experience utilising analytics and visualisation tools including but not limited to Alteryx, Tableau 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;
• Ability to work effectively in a globally dispersed team environment; and
• Working knowledge and understanding of current AI technology tools would be preferable.
  
  

• Chartered Accountant or MBA or any other equivalent qualified professional preferred