Data Science Consultant - Artificial Intelligence Advisory

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Job description

Data Science Consultant - Associate/Senior Associate - Artificial Intelligence Advisory - Central London

Background

PwC is a trusted adviser to some of the largest organisations around the world, spanning the public, private, and financial sectors. The increasing availability and use of data requires all of these organisations to adapt quickly or face irrelevance. We are no different. Our technology strategy recognises this and aims to keep us at the frontier of change.

As part of this strategy, we are currently looking for Consultants to join our Artificial Intelligence (AI) team in London. We are looking for self-starters, quick learners, and technology enthusiasts who can develop and build on our current Artificial intelligence and Data Science propositions.

The Role

Business is increasingly looking towards Data Science as a solution. As a Consultant in the Consulting AI team, you will work with business alongside our data scientists and engineers to use techniques such as machine learning and natural language processing to realise authentic, data-driven change and solutions.

The team reports to the board and works with clients and senior leadership across our four business units to enhance performance and create valuable impact. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Responsibilities

• Be involved in the design and development of data science projects for PwC and its clients
• Support senior management with project proposals and developing new business opportunities
• Participating in constant learning through training and skills development to grow understanding of Data Science/AI concepts
• Craft and communicate compelling business stories
• Presenting findings to senior internal and external stakeholders
• Establish effective working relationships directly with clients and internal PwC teams
• Ambition to build Data Science and AI capabilities that deliver lasting impact

Essential skills

• Able to articulate data science concepts to a business audience
• Demonstrable understanding of statistics and Natural Language processing
• Working with data scientists and engineers to translate business requirements and architect solutions
• Possession of outstanding oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrable understanding of data science concepts particularly where focused on a business need
• Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms

We recognise that it takes a team to deliver AI and so we seek individuals with demonstrable skills in a selection of the below for a number of roles:

• Consulting experience in a strategy house, a Big 4 firm or an in-house strategy/consulting function of a data-driven company
• Industry Experience in one of our target sectors (e.g. Financial services)
• Strong academic excellence in a computer science, business, and/or analytics related degree
• Exposure to cloud environments (Azure, GCP, AWS etc)
• Empathic listener and persuasive speaker
• Exposure to business or financial modelling
• Understanding of Agile delivery methods

Skills we look for in future employees

All of our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

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Diversity

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, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

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Consulting

In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients' business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries - everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

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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.