Advisory - Deals - BRS - Associate

At PwC, our people in deals focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. They help clients navigate complex transactions and maximise value in their business deals. Those in financial due diligence at PwC will focus on providing strategic advice and business diligence services to clients in their mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. You will be responsible for analysing financial information focusing on quality of earnings and assets, cash flows and other key client deal issues.

Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
• Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
• Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.
• Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.
• Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
• Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
• Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.
  
  

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities are assigned based on an evaluation of the candidates professional qualification, relevant experience, Excel skills, and a demonstrated working knowledge of financial analysis that impacts the business and economic environment. These could include:

• Reviewing & auditing comprehensive financial models for projects (eg. solar energy, construction, mining, etc.) in areas like, assumption testing, scenario analysis, risk assessment, return analysis, debt structuring etc. Primary task includes checking logical integrity, data consistency & accuracy, among others along with having working knowledge in the domain of Project Finance. Working in the area of model building as well.
• Understand the process workflow related to work requests from initiation through completion, understand how workflow is managed within the firm's workflow management tool, understand optimal and required manner in which to document results of work performed.
• Participate in a wide range of projects and collaborate across multiple work streams or teams; consistently demonstrating creative thinking, individual initiative and timely completion of assigned work.
• Consistently demonstrate teamwork dynamics by working as a team member: understand personal and team roles; contribute to a positive working environment by building solid relationships with team members; and proactively seek guidance, clarification and feedback.
  
  

Additional Responsibilities

• Perform work and provide related deliverables in accordance with DC User Guide instructions as applied to engagement team work request submissions
• Maintain working knowledge of DC User Guides
• Monitor time and manage deadlines
• MBA Finance/CA/CFA
• Experience: 1-3 years
• Completed a professional qualification in accounting or finance and understands financial accounting concepts
• Manages a number of responsibilities in the face of competing priorities. Sets priorities for tasks based on relative importance and urgency.
• Takes responsibility for and ensures that assigned tasks are fulfilled in a timely way to a high standard
• Manages and contributes to the development of junior staff
• Contributes to the effective working of the team
• Has Intermediate/Advanced Excel skills with working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
• Is a team player, committed to providing high quality and maintaining timeliness
• Has effective written and verbal communication skills in English
• Demonstrates self-motivation and a desire to take responsibility for personal growth and development
• Is committed to continuous training and to proactively learn new processes.