Black Talent in Business (First Year) One Deals, Leeds, 2022

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Job description

Deals provide an opportunity for faster growth, development of stronger capabilities, accelerated operational transformation, value realisation and protection. We draw upon our deals experience across many industries to support and partner with our clients. The insight we create, coupled with the Intelligent Digital tools and methodologies which we use to get to and evaluate the data that matters, and contributes to the success of our clients in all Deals situations. Here you'll put together major mergers and acquisitions and resolve business crises. You'll work on anything from international take-over bids to economic crime investigations and cases of insolvency.

Business Area

As part of your Black Talent in Business placement you can expect to gain experience across a number of our Deals teams including Business Recovery Services, Corporate Finance and Forensic Services. Examples of the services we offer our clients are:
Corporate Finance - we offer a full range of financial advisory services, from acquisitions and disposals for corporate and private equity clients, to advice on infrastructure, energy and public sector projects
Business Restructuring Services - we advise under-performing UK and European companies on restructuring, refinancing, accelerated mergers and acquisitions and insolvency - finding the best way forward for the business and its stakeholders
Forensic Services - we help our clients to prepare for, respond to and emerge stronger from a wide range of business risks and issues. These include major public enquiries, rogue trader or bribery allegations, and commercial and transactional disputes across all industry sectors.
Our Deals team operate across all industry sectors - clients range from corporates and private equity houses, to major government departments and private sector contractors and developers.
Programme

During this three-day paid programme you'll get an insight into what a career at PwC could look like, you'll meet mentors and buddies who'll represent the variety of opportunities available across PwC. You'll meet some of our Black colleagues to hear about their own personal career journeys, as well as from some of our networks focussed on Inclusion and Diversity. Through interactive sessions the programme will help you to develop confidence in a business setting and encourage you to bring your whole self to the workplace. At PwC, we nurture an environment where our people can be the best they can be. Our Black Talent in Business programme will be a 3-day paid programme which will be run from the 28th to 30th June. You will need to be in the UK to complete this programme which will be run virtually in Summer 2022

What you'll do

During your placement, we'll aim to give you as many experiences as possible, including exposure to client work; although the exact nature of the work you'll do will depend on what projects we're working on at the time of your placement.
This could involve researching, modelling, writing reports, analysing data or developing options and recommendations on a project Business Restructuring Services; supporting on acquisitions and disposals for corporate or private equity clients in Corporate Finance; to helping clients get to the bottom of particularly complex business issues in Forensic Services. Or you could be involved in business development work; researching companies and supporting with industry analysis.

What you'll need

You'll need to have or be on course for a 2.1 degree or above in any subject. We determine whether you're on course for a 2.1 based on the grades you achieved in your last completed year of academic study. You'll need to be a first year undergraduate university student on a three-year degree course; or You'll need to be a first year undergraduate university students on a four-year degree expecting to do a work placement in your third year; or You'll need to be a second year undergraduate university students on a four-year degree course

Work permit

Please take some time to confirm your eligibility for the role. We welcome applications from all candidates but there are restrictions to some areas of our business and some points you should note on our website. Please note that PwC is unable to sponsor any candidates for some roles as the Home Office's eligibility criteria will not be satisfied. For a list of these roles, please review the 'Important information ' section of the work permit page on our website.

When to apply

The deadline for applications is 18 March 2022 The deadline for online assessments is 8 April 2022 Career Focus Days will take place from 25 April 2022 - 31st May 2022

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Do you need a work permit?
Please take some time to confirm your eligibility for the role. We welcome applications from all candidates but there are restrictions to some areas of our business and some points you should note on our website .

Please note that PwC is unable to sponsor any candidates for some roles as the Home Office's eligibility criteria will not be satisfied. For a list of these roles, please review the 'Important information' section of the work permit page on our website .

The Deal
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Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.