Manager Deals Advisory - MandA Ops

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.

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.
  
  

Core responsibilities as a Manager would entail (but not limited to)

• Pre and post deal performance improvement using our proprietary Value Creation methodology; including identifying operational improvement levers e.g. site footprint consolidation, procurement efficiencies, back office rationalisation, supply chain optimisation, etc.
• Supporting carve-outs and divestments to achieve viable standalone businesses; including advising on separation planning, execution, transition and optimisation e.g. Day 1 readiness, migration planning, TSA / LTA requirements, separation cost analysis, etc.
• Providing buy and sell side Operational Due Diligence; including analysing the operations of a business along the value chain e.g. production, supply chain, support functions, Capex investment, etc.
• Mergers and acquisitions integration support; including defining and executing the integration programme, and developing and reviewing operational synergies in combining the two businesses.
• Assisting with other non-transactional products to support clients in maximising profitability e.g. zero based budgeting.
  
  

Across the engagements above, as a Manager your role will be primarily to lead a workstream within a large project (or lead a wider remit on a smaller project), own analysis to substantiate your findings and communicate them to key internal and external stakeholders verbally and via written report format.

You will be expected to manage Associates and Senior Associates to support project delivery as well as owning a range of business development activities.

Must-have Skills

Able to demonstrate a strong understanding of a function such as; engineering, operations, maintenance, procurement, supply-chain or manufacturing

Can quickly assess the performance of a business (or elements of it) and outline improvement opportunities based upon limited information and/ or interactions with Management

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 AI and data analytics e.g. Alteryx, PowerBI, Tableau

Experience

• Operational or transformational leadership experience within a corporate environment, including experience in one or more of the following: lean manufacturing, manufacturing / maintenance best-practice, operational restructuring and cost reduction Or
• Experience leading workstreams within a professional services environment (either in a Deals or Consulting background), focused on IPS or EUR
  
  

Eligibility Criteria

• 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

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