FS Strategy& - Senior Associate

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Job description

A career in PwC Strategy& Financial Services team will provide you with the opportunity to change the face of the Financial Services industry, develop industry-leading sector, technical and management skills, rapidly shape and advance your career and be part of a diverse, energetic, friendly community.

About the role

As a Senior Associate in Strategy&, you will play a central role in solving the most critical strategic problems of the world's leading international banks, insurers and FinTechs. You will have the opportunity to drive transformational business change, working closely with Executive clients, Senior Managers, Directors and Partners and leveraging PwC's global network. You will also have the opportunity to work closely with the Delivering Deal Value (DDV) team, assisting both Corporate and Private Equity clients in a wide range of business critical operational and transformational challenges driven by Merger and Acquisition (M&A) activity.

You will spend the vast majority of your time delivering client projects. In these, you will drive a workstream, either independently or working with colleagues and clients. You will engage in hypothesis-led problem-solving, development of project approaches, execution of qualitative and quantitative analysis, client engagement and collaboration with the team.

Outside of engagements, you will build networks and engage with our sector consulting team including our market-leading Experience Centre and Customer capability groups; generate thought leadership, new propositions and initiatives based on your personal interests and insights; and drive your own personal development and that of your colleagues to deliver ever more value to clients.

Strategy& offers in-depth training across all consulting levels and will support your development throughout your career. Using a combination of formal training programs, on-the-job feedback and guidance from your allocated career coach, we support our Senior Associates to develop exceptional leadership, analytical thinking, specialist technical and sector knowledge and relationship skills.

Key responsibilities as a Senior Associate

• Working with Managers, Senior Managers, Directors or Partners to structure, storyboard, plan and execute complex strategic workstreams as part of client projects.

• Developing the hypotheses and insights to unlock challenging client problems.

• Leading the data gathering required to solve complex problems in a short timeframe.

• Undertaking analysis, translating the analysis into useful findings and quality assuring the results in conjunction with project leadership.

• Developing clear, persuasive and concise documents for Executive audiences.

• Presenting content convincingly and clearly and fielding client questions naturally.

• Building productive and lasting client relationships at all levels.

• Managing the development of junior team members on projects and identifying opportunities for them to grow and build their skills.

• Supporting senior management with project proposals and developing new business opportunities.

• Building relationships within the PwC Network and proactively contributing to internal, firm-building activities, such as recruitment.

• Dealing effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.

• Upholding the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Requirements

• A track record of achievement and progression

• 1-2 years experience working with clients on one or more of the following:

  • Corporate or business unit strategy

  • Growth strategy

  • Cost reduction strategy​

• Experience contributing to functionally, geographically and culturally diverse teams

• Ability to apply top-down strategic thinking to complex, ambiguous and unfamiliar problems

• Demonstrated ability to work with quantitative data and structuring quantitative analysis

• Outstanding oral and written communication skills, including demonstrated experience in communicating with senior Executives in oral and written form

• Ability to quickly and confidently develop relationships, including in challenging situations

• Eagerness to learn and develop new skills

• Good organization and planning

• Collaborative nature and team-player mentality

• Self-motivation and self-starter approach

• Degree qualified, Honours or postgraduate preferred

• Preferred: Professional experience within the financial services sector, ideally with large banks, insurers or asset managers and/or professional experience with a leading strategy consulting firm

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
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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.