Advisory - Deals - Financial Due Diligence - Manager - KOL/BLR

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.Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Skills

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

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• 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.
  

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

Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate, you will work as part of a team of financial diligence problem solvers in performing data driven financial and accounting diligence analysis and communicating with PwC network offices on project deliverables. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Work in a team interpreting data and
  

analysing results along with transforming source data into a workable format, and visualizing data insights, using tools like Excel and Power Suites;

• Proactively work with team leaders and team members to manage a workload of multiple projects with competing priorities based on relative importance and urgency;
• Communicating with team leaders, and PwC network offices to understand scope and expectations, and present project deliverables once they have been completed;
• Mentor and leverage junior team members on projects to facilitate coaching and development;
• Keep up to date with local and international business and economic issues, as they pertain to assigned PwC network office regions.
• 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 way 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.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• You have a strong interest and knowledge of mergers and acquisitions, possess exceptional analytical skills as they relate to identifying financial and strategic business trends, and are able effectively interpret and communicate the implications of those trends on a deal;