Senior Associate_Deals Strategy

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 276,000 people across 157 countries working towards this goal. The US Advisory Bangalore Acceleration Center is a natural extension of our United States based consulting capabilities, providing support to a broad range of practice teams. Our US-owned ACs are fully integrated into our client-facing teams and are key to PwC’s success in the marketplace.

Job Overview

This position is for a Senior Associate to be part of a fast-growing Deals Strategy team within our Advisory Acceleration Center.

Deals Strategy (DS) is a specialist team within PwC Strategy& that shapes the M&A landscape by supporting 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 private equity clients with over $2.5 trillion in assets under management, and publicly traded companies with a combined market capitalization 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.

Our Deals Strategy Acceleration Center (DS AC) in India is a specialist team within our broader Bangalore Acceleration Center that plays a critical role in supporting DS project teams with research, analytics and knowledge management support across industries (including Technology, Media, Healthcare, Consumer Products, Retail, Industrial Products and Energy, Oil and Gas).

Responsibilities Include

• Help create and review delivery modules (e.g., vendor benchmarking, survey analysis, website scraping, slide creation, intellectual property within the AC)
• Help with DS AC onboarding and training programs
• Drive day-to-day deliverables at the DS AC team by helping in work-planning, problem solving, hypothesis generation and research tools and review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance
• Proactively assist the team in various aspects of the client engagements
• Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen and business acumen
• Work closely with US DS teams to fully support client engagements
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results
• Engage with US counterparts to build trust and relationships in an effort to develop and market the AC brand
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct
  
  

Other Areas

• Contribute to practice enablement and business development activities (Proposal responses, client interactions, workshops etc.)
  
  

Learning new tools and technologies if 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 the reasons for this choice
• 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
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends
• Staying in the loop and on top of the latest M&A trends and developing new skills
• Ability to provide examples of prior problem solving to help guide the team members
  
  

Desired Experience And Skills

• 4 to 7 years of industry experience, with an emphasis on service delivery
• Data Visualization tools such as Tableau/ Power BI and Excel/Google Charts
• Ability to effectively take ownership and work on multiple, concurrent projects under stringent timelines while working both independently and in a team environment
• Ability to work effectively under strict deadlines and utilize project management skills to manage tasks
• Relevant experience in conducting primary research (including desktop research, surveys and web scraping), secondary research, analysis of complex data and client-ready deliverable creation
• Relevant experience in private equity, commercial due diligence, target screening and / or M&A advisory preferred
• Multi-tasking and balancing time effectively, keeping a rapid pace without sacrificing quality
• Strong business acumen, with analytical and problem-solving skills
• Effective written and verbal business communication skills when interacting with team members and/or clients in a professional setting
• Extensive experience in creating clear and concise reports, including graphics and data visualization for clients and clearly presenting findings to interested parties
  
  

Desired Soft Skills

• Effective communication and storytelling skills to various audiences (written and verbal)
• Strong work ethic, proactive and professional behavior
• 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 Location: Bangalore
• Work Timings: Work hours may vary for specific projects
• Travel Requirements: NA
• Past Experience: Prior experience in consulting or exposure to a multinational environment is highly preferred.