Senior Associate- Deals Strategy&
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Senior AssociateJob Description & Summary
Job Description SummaryBrief Company Description:
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is a leading global consulting firm. For more than 160 years PwC has worked to build trust in society and solve important problems for clients and the communities in which we live and work. Today we have more than 276000 people across 157 countries working towards this goal.
The UK Advisory Kolkata Acceleration Centre (KAC) is a natural extension of our United Kingdom based consulting capabilities providing support to a broad range of practice teams. Our UK-owned ACs are fully integrated into our client-facing teams and are key to PwCs success in the marketplace.
Job Overview:
This position is for a Senior Associate to be part of a fast-growing Strategy& practice within our Advisory Acceleration Centre.
Strategy& (S&) is our global strategy consulting business. It is a specialist team within PwC that combines strategy consulting capabilities with leading industry and sector insights and know-how. The team helps clients identify and build the capabilities essential to their advantage and develop strategies based on these capabilities.
S& serves four main go-to-market channels: Deal Execution (M&A) Post-Deal Value Creation Portfolio Companies Corporate and Public Sector Clients (non-deals) across industries (including Technology Media Telco Consumer Products Retail Industrials Professional Services Energy Financial Services Healthcare Pharma).
The Deals channel is the largest channel for our UK team. Our work shapes the M&A landscape by supporting private equity (PE) and corporate clients in developing investment perspectives and value creation strategies that make a difference in the highly competitive M&A market.
We serve PE clients with over 2.5 trillion in assets under management and publicly traded companies with a combined market capitalisation of over 4 trillion. From initial investment strategy development to commercial due diligence value creation post-close and exit were here to help our clients drive growth.
The S& Acceleration Centre in India is a specialist team within our broader PwC Kolkata Acceleration Centre that plays a critical role working with the UK team in project preparation and executing including all responsibilities typically required of a UK-based team member from Experienced Associate to Manager. This includes analysis research output creation presentation and discussion.
Responsibilities include:
Help create and review delivery modules such as competition benchmarking survey analysis website scraping customer and financial analysis slide creation industry research knowledge management and more
Drive day-to-day deliverables within the KAC team by helping in work-planning problem solving hypotheses generation and research tools including reviewing your work and that of others for quality accuracy and relevance
Work closely with the UK S& team to fully support client engagements
Assist with KAC team onboarding and training programmes
Contribute to the development of your own and teams technical and functional acumen
Demonstrate critical thinking an ability to bring order to unstructured problems and excellent commercial acumen
Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities coaching them to deliver results
Uphold the firms code of ethics and business conduct
Other areas:
Contribute to practice enablement and business development activities (proposal responses client interactions workshop preparation etc.)
Learning new tools and technologies including generative AI (genAI) as required
Develop/implement automation solutions and capabilities that are aligned to clients business requirements
Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and explain reasons for this choice
Develop internal relationships to build trust in an effort to develop and market the KAC brand
Keep up to date with local and global business and economic issues
Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness personal strengths and address development areas
Use straightforward communication in a structured way when influencing and connecting with others
Provide others with examples of prior problem solving to help guide team members
Staying in the loop and on top of the latest M&A trends
Desired Experience and Skills:
4 to 7 years of industry experience with an emphasis on consulting services and project delivery
Relevant experience in private equity commercial due diligence target screening and / or M&A advisory is an asset
Ability to understand contextualise and solve commercial problems through independent analysis and research
Ability to work as an integrated team member with the UK team in delivering client work and to effectively take ownership and work on projects under stringent timelines while working both independently and in a team environment
Effective written and excellent verbal business communication skills when interacting with team members and/or clients in a professional setting
Ability to utilise project management skills to time-manage tasks
Experience in creating clear and concise reports including graphics and data visualisation and commentary for clients and clearly presenting findings to others
Relevant experience in conducting primary research (including desktop research surveys and web scraping) and secondary research required
Relevant experience in analysis of complex data (e.g. survey outputs financial statements business plans) required
Relevant experience in creating client-ready deliverables including PowerPoint slides and reports required
Experience in using Microsoft Excel PowerPoint is required and experience with data visualisation tools like Power BI and other similar tools is an asset
Multi-tasking and balancing time effectively keeping a rapid pace without sacrificing quality
Desired Soft Skills:
Strong work ethic proactive and professional behaviour
Strategic and creative thinker problem solver
Educational Background:
MBA from premier B-Schools (preferred)
Strong academic credentials analytical ability and leadership skills
Additional Information:
Time type: Full time
Work timings: Work hours may vary for specific projects
Travel requirements: None
Past experience: Past experience in consulting and exposure to a multinational environment will be an added bonus.
Travel Requirements
Not SpecifiedJob Posting End Date
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
