Advisory Deals BRS Restructuring Advisory Senior Associate Kolkata

Location: Kolkata

Qualification criteria: Must possess an ACA qualification (or an international equivalent)

About the team

Our specialist Debt & Capital Advisory (DCA) team is made up of over 20 people in the UK focused on helping clients to deliver a successful finance raising. Whether it be a refinance funding growth or releasing equity we help clients to reduce balance sheet stress generate cash and find the best source of capital to support their business objectives. We are now looking to further strengthen the team with the addition of a Senior Associate.

Our DCA team forms part of our wider Deals business. We work closely across Deals (and wider PwC teams) to ensure we give the best advice to our clients. Given the nature of our services the work in Deals is varied often fast paced and calls on commercial analytical and interpersonal skills.

The team can offer successful candidate experience across a wide variety of engagements with significant opportunities for self-development. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a dynamic and fast-growing team.

Our work typically involves advising companies on:

• Evaluating business plans for robustness and sensitivity

• Capital structure analysis

• Financial modelling and debt capacity analysis

• Assessing financing products and markets

• Managing ongoing relationships with potential funders

• Organizing and managing funding competitions

• Preparing management presentations and information memoranda

• Assessing financing offers and negotiating terms and conditions

• Advising management teams on financing decisions

Responsibilities

Within DCA youll work as part of a diverse team of problem solvers helping to solve complex financing issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this level include but are not limited to:

• Contributing to discussions around potential financing solutions most suitable for the client and their financing needs

• Undertaking analysis of the debt capacity of a business - quantitative and qualitative

• Helping to prepare management presentations and information memoranda

• Reviewing business plans and management assumptions

• Gradual understanding of financial legal documentation

• Building and maintaining rapport with senior clients on engagements (generally c-suite MDs and Investment Directors

Essential skills and experience

Our work focuses on raising debt financing for a range of companies in the mid-market including private equity and privately owned businesses. We look for the following skills and experience:

• Must possess an ACA qualification (or an international equivalent)

• A desire to learn quickly and build their knowledge of debt products and markets (leveraged loans high yield bonds untrenched asset based and real estate loans)

• An interest in wider economic and political trends and sector dynamics

• Wide range of client experience and a passion for client collaboration

• Experience of writing reports

• Good Excel skills are essential with experience using Power BI and other data analytics and visualization tools being beneficial

• Strong analytical skills an ability to think laterally and a focus on attention to detail

• Strong interpersonal skills and comfortable communicating with all levels

• Flexibility in terms of working across a diverse range of industries and roles

• A commitment to continued personal development

• Proven project and time management skills

• Good communication skills both verbal and written