M&A Operations Financial Services Operations Manager

The S&VC M&A Operations Financial services team is a market leading Deals Operations team. We help our clients identify and realise the value of Merger & Acquisitions by assessing an FS business operations and technology opportunities. From value-focused pre deal diligence through to post deal execution of complex separations and integrations. We are a collaborative and supportive team of people who enjoy working together. We go to market as a cohesive practice including integrated multi-disciplinary Financial Services Deal teams (e.g. Strategy Financial Due Diligence and Consulting)

Responsibilities:

• Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges

• Assist in the management and delivering of large projects

• Train coach and supervise junior staff

• Assist in the management of clients

• Contribute to the development of your own and the teams technical skills

• Assist with the financial management of client projects

• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and win opportunities to work with new/existing clients

• Develop a strong internal network within PwC

Managers are expected to lead smaller projects lead work-streams on larger projects and train/manage more junior staff. Additionally Managers get involved in a range of business development activities outside of their project roles these activities include client proposals thought leadership and market scanning.

Experience:

Either

• Experience of working in financial services consulting or a role in industry ideally Banking Insurance and / or Asset and Wealth Management

OR

• Experienced in M&A cost-out and / or synergies integration carve-out change projects or business improvement

Skills:

• 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

• Comfortable working to deadlines and managing through ambiguity to deliver tasks in an environment where there are many unknowns

• A healthy curiosity coupled with a disciplined approach to understanding and solving problems

• Ability to quickly understand large amounts of information and draw out hypotheses and key messages

• Comfort around basic financial analysis and understanding of the drivers of financial information