Associate – Deals Advisory – Deals Strategy 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.

Job Overview

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 market analysis (sizing, forecasting, etc.), competitive analysis (benchmarking, differentiation, landscape analysis), business plan analysis, customer and financial analysis, survey analysis, website scraping, industry research, etc.
• Conduct rigorous analysis in Microsoft Excel, and produce client-ready output in Microsoft PowerPoint
• 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

Other Areas

• 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

Desired Experience And Skills

• 2 to 3 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 independent analysis and research
• 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 interacting with team members and/or clients in a professional setting
• 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

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.