Associate Consultant: Business Transformation
Associate Consultant: Business Transformation
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AssociateJob Description & Summary
At PwC our people in strategy consulting focus on providing strategic guidance and insights to organisations. They analyse market trends assess business performance and develop recommendations to help clients achieve their goals. These individuals work closely with clients to identify opportunities for growth optimise operations and enhance overall business performance.As a corporate and business strategy consultant at PwC you will analyse client needs provide consulting services across different strategic areas and offer guidance and support to help clients develop and implement effective strategies that align with their business objectives and drive growth.
Driven by curiosity you are a reliable contributing member of a our fast-paced environment you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm you build a brand for yourself opening doors to more opportunities.
Examples of the skills knowledge and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
- Appreciate diverse perspectives needs and feelings of others.
- Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
- Actively listen ask questions to check understanding and clearly express ideas.
- Seek reflect act on and give feedback.
- Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
- Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
- Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance) uphold the Firms code of conduct and independence requirements.
Brief 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.
Job Overview:
This position is for an Associate to be part of a fast-growing Strategy& practice within our Advisory team.
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& South Africa serves 2 main go-to-market channels: Corporate and Public Sector Clients (strategy advisory) focussing on but not limited to the following industries; Mining Financial Services Professional Services.
Youll focus on the key strategic issues businesses face and work on challenging and varied assignments from helping a company identify attractive new markets identifying opportunity for optimisation advising a client on game-changing investments to helping industry leaders solve their toughest organisational challenges.
The S& team in South Africa that plays a critical role in PwC in project sales and execution. This includes analysis research output creation delivery presentation and discussion.
Responsibilities include:
Work in a team setting on strategy consulting work including projects and delivery modules such as market analysis competition benchmarking survey analysis website scraping customer and financial analysis slide creation industry research knowledge management and more
Ability to build solid and collaborative relationships with team members
Proactively assist the team in various aspects of the client engagement
Contribute to the development of your own and teams technical and functional acumen
Uphold the firms code of ethics and business conduct
Other areas:
Contribute to practice enablement and business development activities
Learning new tools and technologies including generative AI (genAI) as
Develop/implement automation solutions and capabilities that are aligned to clients business requirements
Develop internal relationships to build trust in Strategy& and Fit for Growth
Keep up to date with local and global business and economic issues
Desired Experience and Skills:
Well expect you to have an entrepreneurial mind challenge conventional assumptions and spark thoughtful debate. This is one of the best ways we know to come up with fresher smarter answers to our clients toughest problems.
Our Associates join us from a range of academic backgrounds. Associates will typically have c.0 to 3 years of industry experience
Youll need an excellent ability to understand contextualise and solve commercial problems through independent analysis and research
Ability to work as an integrated team member with the teams delivering client work
Effective written and excellent verbal business communication skills when interacting with team members and/or clients in a professional setting
Multi-tasking and balancing time effectively keeping a rapid pace without sacrificing quality
Exposure to conducting primary research (including desktop research surveys and web scraping) and secondary research is an asset
Relevant experience in analysis of complex data (e.g. survey outputs financial statements business plans) is an asset
Relevant exposure to creating client-ready deliverables including PowerPoint slides and reports is an asset
Experience in using Microsoft Excel PowerPoint is and experience with data visualisation tools like Power BI and other similar tools is an asset
Desired Soft Skills:
Strong work ethic proactive and professional behaviour
Strategic and creative thinker problem solver
Educational Background:
Strong academic credentials from premier university analytical ability and leadership skills
Additional Information:
Time type: Full time
Work timings: Work hours may vary for specific projects
Travel requirements: As per client requirement
Travel Requirements
Up to 20%Available for Work Visa Sponsorship
NoJob Posting End Date
June 19 2025Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
