Advisory - Deals - Strategy & - Senior Associate - KOL/BLR
PwC Acceleration Centers in India
Date: 14 hours ago
City: Kolkata, West Bengal
Contract type: Full time
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.
Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.
Skills
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
This position is for an 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, we’re 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
Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.
Skills
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
- Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
- Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
- Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
- Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
- Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
- Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
- Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.
This position is for an 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, we’re 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
- Work in a team setting on delivery modules such as 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 team’s technical and functional acumen
- Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct
- Contribute to practice enablement and business development activities
- Learning new tools and technologies including generative AI (genAI) as required
- Develop/implement automation solutions and capabilities that are aligned to clients’ business requirements
- 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
- Staying in the loop and on top of the latest M&A trends
- 4 to 7 years of industry experience
- 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
- Ability to work as an integrated team member with the UK team in delivering client work
- Effective written and excellent verbal business communication skills when
- Multi-tasking and balancing time effectively, keeping a rapid pace without sacrificing quality
- Relevant experience in 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 experience in creating client-ready deliverables including PowerPoint slides and reports is an asset
- Experience in using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint is required, and experience with data visualisation tools like Power BI and other similar tools is an asset .
- Strong work ethic, proactive and professional behaviour
- Strategic and creative thinker, problem solver
- MBA from premier B-Schools (preferred)
- Strong academic credentials, analytical ability and leadership skills
- 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.
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