About the Role
As a Co-op in PwC Canada's market-leading Deals practice, you will be part of a diverse, inclusive team that values your perspective and empowers you to make a real impact. You'll gain hands-on experience with real client work, explore how businesses operate, and learn how trust is built through compliance and strategic planning. You'll join a firm invested in your success, gaining experience with AI-powered audit tools and participating in a national upskilling program to build future-ready capabilities in data, technology, and business acumen. You will work with market-leading clients across diverse industries, exposing you to complex, real-world challenges that accelerate professional growth.
Responsibilities
- Develop consulting skills in a dynamic, diverse, and fast-paced M&A team focused on helping create and capture value throughout an acquisition or a divestiture.
- Help clients grow faster and work smarter, solving problems that matter and creating tangible value through M&A.
- Work on projects including fully integrated due diligence, organization design, change management and culture, operational excellence, synergies, and helping clients integrate and separate businesses across all functions.
- Develop business acumen, core consulting, project management, and coaching skills.
- Develop consulting skills in HR, IT, Finance, Transaction Management, Corporate Development, AI, and Operations, aligning to a few core skills based on interest and business needs.
- Gain knowledge and serve clients across industries and sectors including Financial Services, Energy, Utilities, Mining and Industrial Products, Technology, Communications, Retail & Consumer, and Private Equity.
Requirements
- Enrolled in post-secondary education.
- Strong analytical, structured problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Data and analytics literacy and AI fluency (including effective prompting) to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable insights.
- An interest in upskilling for a digital world and technology trends.
- Openness to learning new tools and adapting how you work.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate new ideas.
- Highly detail-oriented with excellent organizational and analytical skills.
- Ability to think broadly and ask questions about data, facts, and other information to deliver quality to clients.
- Demonstrated commitment to valuing differences and working alongside diverse people and perspectives.
- Ability to build genuine relationships rooted in trust by sharing and collaborating effectively with others.
- Ability to adapt easily while demonstrating project management skills to handle changing priorities.
- Display examples of alignment with PwC Values: Acting with Integrity, Make a Difference, Care, Work Together, and Reimagine the Possible.
- Comfortable travelling to cities across Canada (when deemed safe).
- Legally entitled to work for PwC in Canada for the intended duration of the offer/contract.
Skills
- Data and analytics literacy
- AI fluency
- Effective prompting
- Consulting skills
- Project management skills
- Coaching skills
- Business acumen
- Analytical skills
- Organizational skills
- Communication skills
- Written communication skills
- Verbal communication skills
- Accepting Feedback
- Active Listening
- Business Administration
- Business Process Improvement
- Carve-Outs
- Change Management
- Client Management
- Communication
- Contract Negotiation
- Cost Efficiency
- Cost Reduction
- Emotional Regulation
- Empathy
- Enhanced Due Diligence
- HR Due Diligence
- Inclusion
- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- Intellectual Curiosity
- M&A Strategy
- Market Research
- Operational Advice
- Operational Performance Management (OPM)
- Operations Strategy
- Optimism
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Activity Based Work
- Travel
Experience Level
- Associate
- Co-op
Education Level
- Post-secondary education
Salary/Compensations
- $59,000 - $69,000
Benefits
- Flexible health, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage.
- Mental health support ($3,500 annually).
- Virtual care.
- Up to a $750 lifestyle account for wellness, fitness, and personal growth.
- Employer matching for retirement savings.
- Financial planning resources.
- Banking programs.
- Coaching.
- Mentoring.
- Clear career paths.
- Up to 31 paid days off including summer and winter office closures.
- Substitute a public holiday to observe your religious holiday.
- International remote work options.
- PwC Canada’s Award and Mentorship Programs.
About the Company
- At PwC Canada, we’re more than a professional services firm—we’re a community of solvers tackling the world’s most important problems.
- We are committed to offering competitive compensation and adhere to all relevant pay transparency legislation.
- We're committed to providing accommodation throughout the application, interview, and employment process.
- Our use of AI helps ensure we combat bias by evaluating candidates equally and fairly, without seeing identity information, such as your name, or gender for example).
- AI also helps us better predict successful hires by reviewing all applicants for a role and the relationship between your skills, experience and likely success at PwC Canada.
- PwC Canada acknowledges that we work and live across Turtle Island, on the land that is now known as Canada, which are the lands of the ancestral, treaty and unceded territories of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples.
- We recognize the systemic racism, colonialism and oppression that Indigenous Peoples have experienced and still go through, and we commit to allyship and solidarity.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re committed to providing accommodation throughout the application, interview, and employment process. If you require accommodation to be at your best, please let us know during the application process.
- Nous tenons à répondre à vos besoins tout au long du processus de demande d’emploi, d’entrevue et d’embauche. Si vous avez besoin de mesures d’adaptation pour être parfaitement à l’aise, faites-le-nous savoir à l’étape de la demande d’emploi.
