Associate - Deals Advisory - Deals Strategy

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 deal strategy at PwC will focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. Your work will involve analysing market trends, assessing business opportunities, and developing strategic frameworks to guide clients in making informed decisions regarding their deals. You will help clients navigate complex transactions, identify potential risks and opportunities, and develop strategies to maximise value and achieve their business objectives. Working in this area, you will play a crucial role in assisting clients in formulating and executing effective strategies to optimise outcomes in their deal-making processes.

Job Overview

This position is for an Associate to be part of a fast-growing Deals Strategy practice within our Advisory

Acceleration Center.

Deals Strategy (DS) is a specialist team within PwC Strategy& that shapes the M&A landscape by supporting

PE and corporate clients in developing investment perspectives and value creation strategies that make a

difference in the highly competitive M&A market. We serve private equity clients with over $2.5 trillion in

assets under management, and publicly traded companies with a combined market capitalization of over $4

trillion. From initial investment strategy development to commercial due diligence, value creation post-close

and exit, we’re here to help our clients drive growth.

Our Deals Strategy Acceleration Center (DS AC) in India is a specialist team within our broader Bangalore

Acceleration Center that plays a critical role in supporting DS project teams with research, analytics and

knowledge management support across industries (including Technology, Media, Healthcare, Consumer

Products, Retail, Industrial Products and Energy, Oil and Gas).

Responsibilities Include

• Work in a team setting on delivery modules such as vendor benchmarking, survey analysis, website
  
  

scraping, slide creation, intellectual property within the AC

• Ability to build solid and collaborative relationships with team members
• Proactively assist the team in various aspects of the client engagement
• Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct
  
  

Other Areas

• Contribute to practice enablement and business development activities
• Participate in initiatives to develop innovation quotient
• Learning new tools and technologies if required. Develop/Implement automation solutions and
  
  

Capabilities That Are Aligned To Clients Business Requirements

• Develop internal relationships to build trust in an effort to develop and market the AC brand
• Keep up to date with local and global business and economic issues
• Staying in the loop and on top of the latest M&A trends and developing new skill
  
  

Desired Experience And Skills

• 2 +years of industry experience
• Data Visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI and Excel/Google Charts
• Relevant experience in conducting primary research (including desktop research, surveys and web
  
  

scraping), secondary research, analysis of complex data and client-ready deliverable creation

• Relevant experience in private equity, commercial due diligence, target screening and / or M&A
  
  

advisory preferred

• Proven experience in using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau/ Power BI or other similar tools.
• Multi-tasking and balancing time effectively, keeping a rapid pace without sacrificing quality.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Effective written and verbal business communication skills when interacting with team members
  
  

and/or clients in a professional setting

Desired Soft Skills

• Effective communication and storytelling skills to various audiences (written and verbal)
• Strong work ethic, proactive and professional behavior
• Strategic and creative thinker, problem solver
  
  

Educational Background

• MBA from premier B-Schools (preferred)
• Strong academic credentials, analytical ability and leadership skills