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.
What does this role entail?
Our Management Consulting team works with our global clients to advise and design growth, operational and customer-focused strategies for sustainable competitive advantage. Our thought leadership and unparalleled experience help clients turn formidable challenges into market advantage across the value chain and around the globe. Additionally, our extensive expertise in various industries allows us to serve clients with consulting services with a focus on the most profitable elements of the value chain to create scalable businesses that will deliver increased sustainable profits. Our Management Consultants work with the client and project teams to support global engagements from India through activities that are driven towards delivering results, conduct analyses and develop insights, prepare excel models, analyze large sets of data, capture as-is processes, prepare work plans, design to-be processes, support project leads, work directly with client teams and facilitate meetings to enable decision making, organize and prepare recommendations on client issues, and participate actively in new business development, thought leadership and firm building
Competency Overview: Accelerated Solutions (M&A IT)
The Accelerated Solutions (M&A IT) team works with clients across industries supporting engagements-
- Developing M&A Strategy (Carve-outs, Separation, Integration, etc.) by collaborating with C-suite executives
- Due Diligence to assess Technology landscape and create PoVs
- Advising clients to develop Integration / Divestiture Strategy
- Developing future state strategy for M&A-driven Digital Transformation
- Pre-Deal
- Support IT due diligence by collecting and analyzing infrastructure and application data.
- Assist in preparing IT cost models and TSA-related inputs.
- Post-Deal
- Contribute to IT Infrastructure separation/integration execution.
- Support application inventory, access management, and migration tracking.
- Maintain trackers, status reports, and escalation/RAID logs.
Core responsibilities as an Associate would entail (but not limited to)
Responsibilities
As part of the team, you'll collaborate with experienced consultants and industry professionals to help clients address complex business challenges. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Proactively support the team across the deal spectrum (Due Diligence, Integration, Separation, Post-deal)
- Plan and develop technology restructuring strategy for integration and separation projects and deliverables, including Day One readiness planning, business process and systems integration and separation, and dependency and risk management
- Collaborate with client executives to oversee and advise them during transaction execution
- Advise clients for their post-M&A future state strategy through Digital Transformation
- Develop financial models for synergy savings, one-time costs, stranded costs for separation and integration
- Recommend enterprise architecture, solutions, and systems based on industry leading practices and past experiences
- Recommend technology restructuring considerations (transformation, integration, separation, or carve-out) across key Tech strategy pillars
- Be actively involved in business development activities to help capture pportunities of new/existing clients
- Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand
Knowledge Preferred
Candidates are expected to demonstrate foundational knowledge in one or more areas of technology, along with strong analytical skills to effectively understand and address client needs:
Must-have Skills
- Understanding the technology and business landscape for the client
- Analyzing technology levers (people, process and technology)
- Delivering significant business results that utilize strategic / creative thinking and problem solving
- Emphasizing the ability to build solid and collaborative relationships with team members
- Communicating effectively (written and verbal) to various situations and audiences
- Conducting quantitative and qualitative benchmarking and primary and secondary
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite products such as PowerPoint, Excel, Word etc.
Good-to-have Skills
Strong analytical and numerical skills, and domain knowledge
- Effective storytelling and communication skills to various audiences (written and verbal)
- Strong work ethic, proactive and professional behavior
- Strategic and creative thinker, problem solver
- Supports engagement manager in delivering engagements by identifying and addressing client needs
- Exhibits strong ability to work independently as well as in a highly collaborative team environment
