Senior Associate - Deals Advisory - M&A Ops (Integration Team)

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Deal Strategy

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

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.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

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

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.

Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Core responsibilities as a Senior Associate would entail (but not limited to)

Understanding core capabilities within buyer and target organisations to develop integration strategies that both protect and create value, creating a common understanding amongst executive stakeholders on the strategy, approach and plan for integration.

Support with designing and building client integration programmes, including strategy definition, target operating model, value creation (synergy) assessment, integration planning (Day 1 and "100-Day"), and post-acquisition execution.

Supporting our clients on the integration of their acquisition, in order to deliver the value identified pre-deal, reduce risk and successfully merge the two organisations.

Creating detailed plans to complete integration activities.

Managing people, change and culture to create engagement and buy-in from all stakeholders throughout the integration.

Support with the creation of proposals and client presentations in collaboration with other PwC functional and sector teams.

Collaborate with the Integration team to build and share knowledge, support the continuous development of best practices, and introduce relevant new ideas (e.g., digital tools).

Support practice development initiatives

Must-have skills

Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and communicate with senior business leaders.

Excellent quantitative and written skills, able to build analyses or an evidence base to support a position, often in situations with imperfect or incomplete information.

A healthy curiosity, coupled with a disciplined approach to understanding and solving problems.

Able to work from first-principles and stay focused on the ‘why’ when performing analyses or reviewing documentation.

Comfortable under pressure and managing through ambiguity to deliver tasks in an environment where there are many unknowns.

Adaptable, and up for the challenge of mastering new industries and developing experience in a wide variety of product types.

Capability or willingness to develop skills in AI and data analytics e.g. Alteryx, PowerBI, Tableau.

Experience

• Experience providing professional M&A integration advisory services to clients (either in a Deals or Consulting background); or Operational management or business transformation experience in a corporate environment or internal consulting role
• Experience of the deal-cycle and/or other large, complex and fast-paced projects.
• Practical experience developing M&A integration strategy and plans, synergy assessment and development, designing and implementing target operating models, and executing business transformation projects or performance improvement in the context of M&A/deals.

Eligibility Criteria

• MBA in Strategy/ Economics/ Finance from a premium B-School

Past Experience:

• 3 – 6 years of prior relevant work experience
• Experience in M&A or management consulting domain

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

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