About PwC: 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 US Advisory Bangalore Acceleration Center is a natural extension of our United States based consulting capabilities, providing support to a broad range of practice teams. Our US-owned ACs are fully integrated into our client facing teams and are key to PwC's success in the marketplace. Job Summary: At PwC, we are betting big on data, analytics, and a digital revolution to transform the way deals are done. Analytics is increasingly a major driver of competitive advantages in deal-making, and value creation for private equity owned portfolio companies. PwC brings data-driven insights through advanced techniques to help clients make better strategic decisions, uncover value, and improve returns on their investments. The PwC Deal Analytics & Value Creation practice is a blend of deals and consulting professionals with diverse skills and backgrounds, including financial, commercial, operational, and data science. We support private equity and corporate clients across all phases of the deal lifecycle, including diligence, post-deal, and preparation for exit/divestiture. Our data-driven approach delivers insights in diligence at deal speed, works with clients to improve performance post-deal, and brings a commercial insights lens through third-party and alternative data to help inform decisions. A career in our fast-paced Deal Analytics & Value Creation practice, a business unit within the PwC deals platform, will allow you to work with top private equity and corporate clients across all sectors on complex and dynamic multi-billion-dollar decisions. Each client, deal, and situation is unique, and the ability to translate data into actionable insights for our clients is crucial to our continued success.As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
- Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness, and personal strengths, and address development areas.
- Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
- Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
- Drive day-to-day deliverables in the team by helping in work planning and review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy, and relevance.
- Contribute to practice enablement and business development activities
- Learning new tools and technologies if required.
- Develop/Implement automation solutions and capabilities that are aligned to client's business requirements
- Know-how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
- Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
- Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
Preferred Fields Of Study/Experience
Dual degree/Master's degree from reputed institutes in Data Science, Data Analytics, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration/Management, Economics, Statistics, Computer and Information Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, MathematicsA total of 4-7 years of work experience in analytics consulting and/or transaction services with top consulting organizationsExperience across the entire Deals Cycle (diligence, post-deal value creation, and exit preparation)
Preferred Knowledge/Skills
Our team is a blend of deals and consulting professionals with an ability to work with data and teams across our practice to bring targeted commercial and operational insights through industry-specific experience and cutting-edge techniques. We are looking for individuals who demonstrate knowledge and a proven record of success in one or both of the following areas:Business
- Experience in effectively facilitating day to day stakeholder interactions and relationships based in the US
- Experience working on high-performing teams preferably in data analytics, consulting, and /or private equity
- Strong Analytics Consulting experience with demonstrated ability to translate complex data into actionable insights
- Experience working with business frameworks to analyze markets and assess company position and performance
- Experience working with alternative data and market data sets to draw insight on competitive positioning and company performance
- Understanding of financial statements, business cycles (revenue, supply chain, etc.), business diligence, financial modeling, valuation, etc.
- Experience working in a dynamic, collaborative environment and working under time-sensitive client deadlines
- Provide insights by understanding the clients' businesses, their industry, and value drivers
- Strong communication and proven presentation skills
Technical
- High degree of collaboration, ingenuity, and innovation to apply tools and techniques to address client questions
- Ability to synthesize insights and recommendations into a tight and cohesive presentation to clients
- Proven track record of data extraction/transformation, analytics, and visualization approaches and a high degree of data fluency
- Proven skills in the following preferred: Alteryx, Pyspark, Python, Advanced Excel, PowerBI (including visualization and DAX), MS Office
- Experience working on GenAI / Large language models (LLMs) is a good to have
- Experience in big data and machine learning concepts
- Strong track record with leveraging data and business intelligence software to turn data into insights
