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PwC Acceleration Centre Strategy& (Deals) Senior Associate Job Description Job Position: Senior Associate Strategy&, Deals, PwC Acceleration Centre (pan-India, headquartered in Kolkata) Brief Company Description: PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is a leading global consulting firm. For more than 160 years, PwC has worked to build trust in society and solve important problems for clients and the communities in which we live and work. Today we have more than 276,000 people across 157 countries working towards this goal. The UK Advisory Kolkata Acceleration Centre (KAC) is a natural extension of our United Kingdom based consulting capabilities, providing support to a broad range of practice teams. Our UK-owned ACs are fully integrated into our client-facing teams and are key to PwCs success in the marketplace. Job Overview: This position is for a Senior Associate to be part of a fast-growing Strategy& practice within our Advisory Acceleration Centre. Strategy& (S&) is our global strategy consulting business. It is a specialist team within PwC that combines strategy consulting capabilities with leading industry and sector insights and know-how. The team helps clients identify and build the capabilities essential to their advantage, and develop strategies based on these capabilities. S& serves four main go-to-market channels: Deal Execution (M&A), Post-Deal Value Creation, Portfolio Companies, Corporate and Public Sector Clients (non-deals) across industries (including Technology, Media, Telco, Consumer Products, Retail, Industrials, Professional Services, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Pharma). The Deals channel is the largest channel for our UK team. Our work shapes the M&A landscape by supporting private equity (PE) and corporate clients in developing investment perspectives and value creation strategies that make a difference in the highly competitive M&A market. We serve PE clients with over 2.5 trillion in assets under management, and publicly traded companies with a combined market capitalisation of over 4 trillion. From initial investment strategy development to commercial due diligence, value creation post-close and exit, were here to help our clients drive growth. The S& Acceleration Centre in India is a specialist team within our broader PwC Kolkata Acceleration Centre that plays a critical role working with the UK team in project preparation and executing, including all responsibilities typically required of a UK-based team member from Experienced Associate to Manager. This includes analysis, research, output creation, presentation and discussion. Responsibilities include: Help create and review delivery modules such as competition benchmarking, survey analysis, website scraping, customer and financial analysis, slide creation, industry research, knowledge management, and more Drive day-to-day deliverables within the KAC team by helping in work-planning, problem solving, hypotheses generation and research tools, including reviewing your work and that of others for quality, accuracy, and relevance Work closely with the UK S& team to fully support client engagements Assist with KAC team onboarding and training programmes Contribute to the development of your own and teams technical and functional acumen Strategy& Confidential PwC Acceleration Centre Strategy& (Deals) Demonstrate critical thinking, an ability to bring order to unstructured problems, and excellent commercial acumen Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct Other areas: Contribute to practice enablement and business development activities (proposal responses, client interactions, workshop preparation, etc.) Learning new tools and technologies including generative AI (genAI) as required Develop/implement automation solutions and capabilities that are aligned to clients business requirements Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and explain reasons for this choice Develop internal relationships to build trust in an effort to develop and market the KAC brand Keep up to date with local and global business and economic issues Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness, personal strengths and address development areas Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others Provide others with examples of prior problem solving to help guide team members Staying in the loop and on top of the latest M&A trends Desired Experience and Skills: 4 to 7 years of industry experience with an emphasis on consulting services and project delivery Relevant experience in private equity, commercial due diligence, target screening and / or M&A advisory is an asset Ability to understand, contextualise, and solve commercial problems through independent analysis and research Ability to work as an integrated team member with the UK team in delivering client work, and to effectively take ownership and work on projects under stringent timelines while working both independently and in a team environment Effective written and excellent verbal business communication skills when interacting with team members and/or clients in a professional setting Ability to utilise project management skills to time-manage tasks Experience in creating clear and concise reports, including graphics and data visualisation and commentary for clients, and clearly presenting findings to others Relevant experience in conducting primary research (including desktop research, surveys and web scraping) and secondary research required Relevant experience in analysis of complex data (e.g. survey outputs, financial statements, business plans) required Relevant experience in creating client-ready deliverables including PowerPoint slides and reports required Strategy& Confidential PwC Acceleration Centre Strategy& (Deals) Experience in using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint is required, and experience with data visualisation tools like Power BI and other similar tools is an asset Multi-tasking and balancing time effectively, keeping a rapid pace without sacrificing quality Desired Soft Skills: Strong work ethic, proactive and professional behaviour Strategic and creative thinker, problem solver Educational Background: MBA from premier B-Schools (preferred) Strong academic credentials, analytical ability and leadership skills Additional Information: Time type: Full time Work timings: Work hours may vary for specific projects Travel requirements: None Past experience: Past experience in consulting and exposure to a multinational environment will be an added bonus. 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