At PwC, our people in finance consulting specialise in providing consulting services related to financial management and strategy. These individuals analyse client needs, develop financial solutions, and offer guidance and support to help clients optimise their financial performance, improve decision-making, and achieve their financial goals. As a finance consulting generalist at PwC, you will possess a broad understanding of various aspects of finance consulting. Your work will involve providing comprehensive guidance and support to clients in optimising their financial performance, improving decision-making, and achieving their financial goals. You will be responsible for analysing client needs, developing financial solutions, and offering recommendations tailored to specific business requirements.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.
Main purpose of the job and key background information(Note: 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.)You will play an integral role in valuation services provided to PwC audit companies as well as non-audit companies as it relates to various private equity investments and valuation of portfolio companies.
Specific Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To
- Analysing third party valuations by challenging assumptions and performing sensitivity analysis on a wide range of illiquid investments across industries and geographies while using accepted and relevant approaches and theory
- Developing deep technical strength in the valuation of alternative assets, serving as a firm resource for that expertise
- Reporting and presenting analysis and conclusions including written reports, and drafting valuation queries for audit team
- Valuation-related work including but not limited to solid experience of constructing and reviewing valuation models such as: DCF, comparable company / bond, option pricing model (knowledge of building breakpoints), waterfall allocation methods etc.
- Understanding of Private Equity industry, Startup and VC funding, and understanding capital structure of private company
- End to end understanding of various nuances in arriving at fair valuation of private company’s shares
- Analyze key financial metrics depending on the portfolio company’s industry, identify historical trends and perform calibration analysis to understand the key drivers causing the changes in the company's valuation in each reporting period.
- Playing a role in discussions, proactively ask questions and share an informed point of view;
Requirements/ Skills
- Bachelor’s in finance/Accounting/Economics with focus on valuation methods (B. Com, B.Sc. with Economics Hons)
- 0-2 year of experience
- Knowledge on Microsoft Office especially Excel
- Understanding of corporate financial statements and
various types of securities will be an advantage
- Proficient written and verbal English communication skills
- Commitment to continuous training and to proactively
learn new processes
- Demonstrated self-motivation and a desire to take
responsibility for personal growth and development
