Associate - Strategy&

Job Position: Associate Strategy&, Deals, PwC Acceleration Centre (pan-India, headquartered in Kolkata) Brief Company Description: PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is a leading global consulting firm. For more than 160 years, PwC has worked to build trust in society and solve important problems for clients and the communities in which we live and work. Today we have more than 276,000 people across 157 countries working towards this goal. The UK Advisory Kolkata Acceleration Centre (KAC) is a natural extension of our United Kingdom based consulting capabilities, providing support to a broad range of practice teams. Our UK-owned ACs are fully integrated into our client-facing teams and are key to PwCs success in the marketplace. Job Overview: This position is for an Associate to be part of a fast-growing Strategy& practice within our Advisory Acceleration Centre. Strategy& (S&) is our global strategy consulting business. It is a specialist team within PwC that combines strategy consulting capabilities with leading industry and sector insights and know-how. The team helps clients identify and build the capabilities essential to their advantage, and develop strategies based on these capabilities. S& serves four main go-to-market channels: Deal Execution (M&A), Post-Deal Value Creation, Portfolio Companies, Corporate and Public Sector Clients (non-deals) across industries (including Technology, Media, Telco, Consumer Products, Retail, Industrials, Professional Services, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Pharma). The Deals channel is the largest channel for our UK team. Our work shapes the M&A landscape by supporting private equity (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 PE clients with over 2.5 trillion in assets under management, and publicly traded companies with a combined market capitalisation 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. The S& Acceleration Centre in India is a specialist team within our broader PwC Kolkata Acceleration Centre that plays a critical role working with the UK team in project preparation and executing, including all responsibilities typically required of a UK-based team member from

Experienced Associate to Manager. This includes analysis, research, output creation, presentation and discussion. Responsibilities include:

• Work in a team setting on delivery modules such as competition benchmarking, survey analysis, website scraping, customer and financial analysis, slide creation, industry research, knowledge management, and more

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 and functional acumen
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct

Other areas:

Contribute to practice enablement and business development activities

Learning new tools and technologies including generative AI (genAI) as 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 KAC 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 Desired Experience and Skills:

2 to 3 years of industry experience

Relevant experience in private equity, commercial due diligence, target screening and / or M&A advisory is an asset

Ability to understand, contextualise, and solve commercial problems through independent analysis and research

Ability to work as an integrated team member with the UK team in delivering client work

Effective written and excellent verbal business communication skills when interacting with team members and/or clients in a professional setting

Multi-tasking and balancing time effectively, keeping a rapid pace without sacrificing quality

Relevant experience in conducting primary research (including desktop research, surveys and web scraping) and secondary research is an asset

Relevant experience in analysis of complex data (e.g. survey outputs, financial statements, business plans) is an asset

Relevant experience in creating client-ready deliverables including PowerPoint slides and reports is an asset

Experience in using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint is required, and experience with data visualisation tools like Power BI and other similar tools is an asset Desired Soft Skills:

Strong work ethic, proactive and professional behaviour

Strategic and creative thinker, problem solver Educational Background:

MBA from premier B-Schools (preferred)

Strong academic credentials, analytical ability and leadership skills Additional Information:

Time type: Full time

Work timings: Work hours may vary for specific projects

Travel requirements: None

Past experience: Past experience in consulting and exposure to a multinational environment will be an added bonus.