Senior Associate - Deals Advisory - Deals Strategy

Job Description

Job Overview:

This position is for a Senior 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:
• Help create and review delivery modules such as market analysis (sizing, forecasting, etc.), competitive analysis (benchmarking, differentiation, landscape analysis), business plan analysis, customer and financial analysis, survey analysis, website scraping, industry research, and more
• Conduct rigorous analysis in Microsoft Excel, and produce client-ready output in Microsoft PowerPoint
• Drive day-to-day deliverables within the Project team by helping in work-planning, problem solving, hypotheses generation and research tools, including reviewing your work and that of others for quality, accuracy, and relevance
• Work closely with the UK S& team to fully support client engagements
• Assist with KAC team onboarding and training programmes
• Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical and functional acumen
• Demonstrate critical thinking, an ability to bring order to unstructured problems, and excellent commercial acumen
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct

Other areas:
• Contribute to practice enablement and business development activities (proposal responses, client interactions, workshop preparation, etc.)
• Learning new tools and technologies including generative AI (genAI) as 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 reasons for this choice
• 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
• 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
• Provide others with examples of prior problem solving to help guide team members
• Staying in the loop and on top of the latest M&A trends

Desired Experience and Skills:
• 4 to 7 years of industry experience with an emphasis on consulting services and project delivery
• 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 independent analysis and research
• Ability to work as an integrated team member with the UK team in delivering client work, and to effectively take ownership and work on projects under stringent timelines while working both independently and in a team environment
• Effective written and excellent verbal business communication skills when interacting with team members and/or clients in a professional setting
• Ability to utilise project management skills to time-manage tasks
• Experience in creating clear and concise reports, including graphics and data visualisation and commentary for clients, and clearly presenting findings to others
• Relevant experience in conducting primary research (including desktop research, surveys and web scraping) and secondary research required
• Relevant experience in analysis of complex data (e.g. survey outputs, financial statements, business plans) required
• Relevant experience in creating client-ready deliverables including PowerPoint slides and reports required
• Experience in using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint is required, and experience with data visualisation tools like Power BI and other similar tools is an asset
• Multi-tasking and balancing time effectively, keeping a rapid pace without sacrificing quality

Desired Soft Skills:
• Strong work ethic, proactive and professional behaviour
• 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 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.