Associate - Deals - M&A Strategy (Integration, Divestiture, Diligence)

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 integration and valuation realisation at PwC will focus on assisting clients in successfully integrating acquisitions and maximising the value of their investments. You will be responsible for conducting valuations, financial analysis, and developing strategies for post-merger integration.Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.

Skills

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

• Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
• Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
• Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.
• Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.
• Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
• Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
• Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.
  

Must-have skills Good-to-have skills

• Key drivers for primary functional areas such
  

as sales & marketing, supply chain, R&D,
Finance, IT, and HR

• Ability to handle, manipulate and analyze
  

quantitative as well as qualitative data

• Concept and rationale of market & industry
  

research, competitor analysis and
benchmarking for key operational and financialmetrics

• Experience of supporting one or more
  

functional areas, organizing work to meet time
and budget expectations, and keeping projectleadership informed of progress and issues

• Prior knowledge/ experience in
  

consulting (technology, risk, management,
strategy) or in key M&A related areas such aspre deal diligence, integration and separationplanning and executionGood-to-have skills

• Intellectual curiosity along with creative
  

thinking ability and structured problem-solving
approach

• Skills to invite & give real time feedback and to
  

Identify & make suggestions for improvements
through an ownership-driven attitude

• Ability to communicate confidently in clear,
  

concise and articulate manner in written and oral
format

• Ability to build solid and collaborative
  

relationships with team members and external
stakeholders

• Basic working proficiency in MS Excel, MS
  

PowerPoint, and MS Word

• Basic knowledge of data analytics and
  

visualization tools would be a bonus

• Discipline and maturity to follow risk
  

management and compliance procedures