A career in our Financial Due Diligence practice, within Deals Transaction Services, will provide you the opportunity to help organisations realise the potential of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and capital markets. In short, we help some of the world’s leading companies originate, create, execute, and realise value from deals. Through data driven insights we help our clients move in the right direction ensuring maximum value for their company. Our team assist organisations with both buy side and sell side due diligence. As part of our team, you’ll help us provide both corporate and financial buyers with peace of mind by analysing and validating all the financial, commercial, operational and strategic assumptions being made.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.

Job DescriptionMain purpose of the job and key background information. Key responsibilities are assigned based on an evaluation of the candidate’s professional qualification, relevant experience, Excel skills, and a demonstrated working knowledge of financial analysis that impacts the business and economic environment.

These Could Include

As an Associate, you will work as part of a team of financial diligence problem solvers in performing data driven financial and accounting diligence

analysis and communicating with PwC network offices on project deliverables. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Work in a team interpreting data and analysing results along with transforming source data into a workable format, and visualizing data insights, using tools like Excel and Power Suites;
• Proactively work with team leaders and team members to manage a workload of multiple projects with competing priorities based on relative importance and urgency;
• Communicating with team leaders, and PwC network offices to understand scope and expectations, and present project deliverables once they have been completed;
• Mentor and leverage junior team members on projects to facilitate coaching and development;
• Keep up to date with local and international business and economic issues, as they pertain to assigned PwC network office regions.
• Understand the process workflow related to work requests from initiation through completion, understand how workflow is managed within the firm’s workflow management tool, understand optimal and required way to document results of work performed.
• Participate in a wide range of projects and collaborate across multiple work streams or teams; consistently demonstrating creative thinking, individual initiative and timely completion of assigned work.
• Consistently demonstrate teamwork dynamics by working as a team member: understand personal and team roles; contribute to a positive working environment by building solid relationships with team members; and proactively seek guidance, clarification and feedback.

Preferred Qualifications

• You have a strong interest and knowledge of mergers and acquisitions, possess exceptional analytical skills as they relate to identifying financial and strategic business trends, and are able effectively interpret and communicate the implications of those trends on a deal;
• You can demonstrate the ability to take responsibility for and ensures that assigned tasks are fulfilled in a timely way to a high standard;
• Consistently demonstrate teamwork dynamic by working as a team member: understand personal and team roles; contribute to a positive working environment by building solid relationships with team members; and proactively seek guidance, clarification and feedback;
• Effective written and verbal communication skills in English;
• Are self-motivated and have a desire to take responsibility for personal growth and development;
• Are committed to continuous training and to proactively learn new processes.

RequirementsThese should include essential & desirable requirements such as:

Basic Qualifications

• Working knowledge of analytical tools like Excel, Power Suite, and PowerPoint;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills;
• Certifications requirement: CA/MBA;
• Relevant FDD experience of 1-2 years;
• Good accounting and financial concepts;
• Working knowledge of analytical tools like Excel, Power Suite, and PowerPoint;