Black Talent in Business (Pen Year) Consulting, DDV, London, 2022

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Job description

Our Consulting practice is focused on results, supporting our clients in solving important problems so that they can transform their business. We use our understanding of how business works and a knowledge of how the right technology in the right place can create competitive advantage.

Our clients' needs are what lead our thinking and drive our ambition. Our goal is to be our clients first choice on the issues that matter most because we deliver outcomes that matter. Clients might want us to help them manage disruption and transform their business to adapt in an ever changing world, or draw up a sustainability strategy that aligns their commercial objectives with broader environmental and social concerns.

We work with clients across the Financial Services, Government and Health Industries and the Private Sector and include household names from Government Departments, NHS Trusts, retailers, banks, multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

You'll get to work closely with the best in industry, finance and Government in the UK and collaborate with clients and colleagues globally, bringing fresh insights and motivation to the problems they face.

Business Area
Delivering Deal Value (DDV) is a market leading team sitting within PwC's Consulting business, assisting both Corporate and Private Equity (PE) clients in a wide range of high impact business situations. Most of our work is in the Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) space, both pre and post deal, and we regularly go to market with our colleagues in Transaction Services, however we can also deliver non-deal transformation projects. The M&A Deals we work on range in size from £50m to over £5bn and our clients include several of the most well-known brands and businesses in the world.

Our DDV team focuses on providing support for transactions and assists clients in all operational aspects of the transaction, pre and post deal, including:

Pre-deal value creation advisory - i.e. where can we see value for our client in this deal?
Buy and sell side operational due diligence - i.e. what could be improved to unlock further value for our client?.
Synergy development and diligence review - i.e. where are the synergies between two businesses and how well has the plan for capturing these synergies been compiled?.
Carve out due diligence and divestment support.
Taking control and 100 day planning.
Mergers & Acquisition Integration.
Post-acquisition performance improvement using our Rapid Value Creation methodology.

We rapidly develop an understanding of the target/client business in order to assimilate the key operational issues, synergies, risks and upsides around a transaction. We communicate our findings in real time to our clients as well as producing written reports articulating our findings for the buyer or seller. We regularly help our clients with post deal implementation projects including taking control of the acquired business, tracking synergy delivery plan and implementing cost reduction opportunities.

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
As a graduate in DDV you will rotate through our different sub teams, which are either industry specific or cross-sector (e.g. Retail, Consumer and Leisure, Telecom Media and Technology, Industrial Products and Services, Finance, Technology etc.), and gain a broad range of experiences. At the end of your graduate scheme you will have the opportunity to be promoted into one of these teams.

On a typical project work you will work as part of a varied size team of two to twenty people analysing the client data to draw commercial insights and conclusions which will eventually be presented to our clients. The project manager will rely on you for effective support throughout the transaction process. Our engagements vary in length, with M&A Deal, you might spend between 2 weeks and 3 months working on a project. Our Post Deal projects normally last between 3 months and a year. Across most projects you will have the opportunity to travel, either internationally or within the UK.

Your responsibilities might include:

Quantitative analysis of the operational aspects of a transaction.
Preparation of client presentations or reports
Liaising with multiple stakeholders, both external and internal. To build strong and meaningful relationships
Outside of project work, you will be involved in business development (BD) activities including industry, or client specific research to identify potential clients or areas of opportunity. As part of the BD activities you will create pitch or discussion documents which will be presented or discussed with our potential clients.

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 in your penultimate year of an undergraduate or postgraduate degree; or
You'll need to be in your final year of an undergraduate degree with a one year postgraduate place confirmed; and

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
We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have 'The Deal'.

Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition:

Diversity
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.