About the Role
As an Intern in PwC Canada's market-leading Deals practice, you will gain hands-on experience with real client work, explore business operations, and learn about trust through compliance and strategic planning. You will be part of a diverse, inclusive team that values your perspective and empowers you to make a real impact, while also participating in a national upskilling program focused on data, technology, and business acumen.
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 divestiture.
- Help clients grow faster, work smarter, and solve problems that matter, creating tangible value through M&A.
- Work on projects including fully integrated due diligence, organization design, change management and culture, operational excellence, synergies, and business integration/separation across all functions.
- Develop business acumen, core consulting, project management, and coaching skills.
- Gain knowledge and serve clients across various industries and sectors.
- Engage in a diverse range of activities from offices, client sites, or homes, following an Activity Based Work model.
Requirements
- Enrolled in post-secondary education, preference given to students entering their third year of study.
- 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 work methods.
- 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.
- 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
- M&A Strategy
- Deal Strategy
- Due Diligence
- Organization Design
- Change Management
- Operational Excellence
- Synergies
- HR
- IT
- Finance
- Transaction Management
- Corporate Development
- AI
- Operations
- Analytical skills
- Structured problem-solving
- Communication skills
- Data and analytics literacy
- AI fluency
- Project management skills
- Organizational skills
- Accepting Feedback
- Active Listening
- Business Administration
- Business Process Improvement
- Carve-Outs
- Client Management
- Communication
- Contract Negotiation
- Cost Efficiency
- Cost Reduction
- Emotional Regulation
- Empathy
- Enhanced Due Diligence
- HR Due Diligence
- Inclusion
- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- Market Research
- Operational Advice
- Operational Performance Management (OPM)
- Operations Strategy
- Optimism
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Activity Based Work
- Travel
Experience Level
- Intern/Trainee
Education Level
- Post-secondary education
Salary/Compensations
- $50,000 - $60,000
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 invested in your success from day one.
- We utilize AI-powered audit tools and offer a national upskilling program to build future-ready capabilities.
- We work with market-leading clients across diverse industries, exposing you to complex, real-world challenges that accelerate professional growth.
- Our objective is to become the most connected firm - connected to our clients, our communities and to each other.
- 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.
- 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.
- While AI supports parts of our recruitment process, final hiring decisions always involve human review.
