About the Role
Strategy& Financial Services is PwC’s global strategy consulting business, offering outstanding opportunities for rapid professional growth. You'll solve challenging strategic problems for clients through innovative ideas and thought leadership, with a culture that encourages challenging conventional thinking and provides tailored mentorship.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of defined workstreams within complex strategy engagements, managing activities, timelines and outputs to a high standard.
- Conduct rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis, drawing on market data, customer insight, financial information and industry research.
- Develop strategic insights and recommendations that are commercially grounded, evidence-based and relevant to the client’s objectives.
- Produce clear, concise and compelling presentations, reports and other client deliverables.
- Build effective working relationships with client teams and contribute to trusted day-to-day client interactions.
- Support business development through research, proposal development, credentials preparation and the creation of client materials.
- Build expertise in relevant financial services sectors, capabilities and strategic topics, while maintaining awareness of wider market and economic developments.
Requirements
- Experience working within Strategy and/or M&A related activity.
- Specific experience working with banks, insurers, wealth or asset managers on one or more of the following: Corporate or BU strategy; Growth & product strategy; M&A, Integration; Strategic operating model; Cost transformation; Customer journey / process development.
- Clear, evidence-backed points of view on the future of financial services (across sub sectors) and the commercial implications for incumbents and challengers alike.
- Ability to apply top-down strategic thinking to complex, ambiguous and unfamiliar problems.
- Ability to work with quantitative data and structuring quantitative analysis, including a willingness to develop skills in data analytics e.g. Alteryx, PowerBI, Tableau.
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills, including demonstrated experience in communicating with senior Executives in oral and written form.
- Proven track record in working with others to ensure high performance.
- Ability to quickly and confidently develop relationships, including in challenging situations.
- Available for Work Visa Sponsorship.
Skills
- Accepting Feedback
- Acquisition Strategy
- Active Listening
- Analytical Thinking
- Business Plan Evaluation
- Capital IQ
- Communication
- Competitive Advantage
- Competitive Analysis
- Corporate Development
- Creativity
- Customer Due Diligence
- Deal Structures
- Embracing Change
- Emotional Regulation
- Empathy
- Financial Due Diligence
- Financial Modeling
- Financial Risk Analysis
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Inclusion
- Industry Trend Analysis
- Intellectual Curiosity
- Learning Agility
Location
- Advisory
- FS X-Sector
Work Type
- Empowered flexibility
- Working week split between office, home and client site
Experience Level
- Senior Associate
Benefits
- Private medical cover
- 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP
- Six volunteering days a year
About the Company
- Strategy& Financial Services is PwC’s global strategy consulting business, as well as the only at-scale strategy business inside a professional services network.
- Strategy& Financial Servcies unique combination of strategic expertise and scale provides outstanding opportunities for rapid professional growth.
