Manager - Deals Advisory - MandA Ops Sector Consumer And Retail

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 integration and valuation realisation at PwC will focus on assisting clients in successfully integrating acquisitions and maximising the value of their investments. You will be responsible for conducting valuations, financial analysis, and developing strategies for post-merger integration.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Skills

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

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• 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.
  
  

• Pre-deal value creation advisory looking for value in a deal on behalf of our clients, and exploring whether full value potential has been both identified and accurately quantified
• Providing operational due diligence on both the buy and sell side of a transaction
• Identifying or reviewing synergies available as the result of a transaction and assessing plans for their realisation
• Supporting divestment of subsidiary businesses and planning to ensure the carved-out entity can continue to operate on Day 1
• Assisting the purchaser with 100 day planning, taking control of the new entity and delivering quick wins
• Supporting our clients on the integration of their acquisition, in order to deliver the value identified pre-deal, reduce risk and successfully merge the two organisations
• Across the engagements above, your role will be primarily to lead a workstream (or a project if it is a short engagement), produce analysis to substantiate your findings and communicate them to key stakeholders verbally and via written report format. You may need to manage Associates or Senior Associates to support you.
• Comply with any risk and quality processes across the engagement
  
  

• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and communicate with senior business leaders
• Excellent quantitative and written skills, able to build analyses or an evidence base to support a position, often in situations with imperfect or incomplete information
• A healthy curiosity, coupled with a disciplined approach to understanding and solving problems
• Able to work from first-principles and stay focused on the ‘why’ when performing analyses or reviewing documentation
• Comfortable under pressure and managing through ambiguity to deliver tasks in an environment where there are many unknowns
• Adaptable, and up for the challenge of mastering new industries and developing experience in a wide variety of product types
• Capability or willingness to develop skill in data analytics e.g. Alteryx, PowerBI, Tableau
  
  

• MBA in Strategy/ Marketing/ Finance from a premium B-School
• Past Experience: 6+ years of prior relevant work experience
• Experience in M&A or management consulting domain