Transaction Services- FDnA Senior Associate- Manchester or Leeds
- Recruiter
- PWC-1
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 06 Jun 2019
- Closes
- 16 Jun 2019
- Sectors
- Accountancy
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Our work is focused on helping clients to prepare for and execute on M&A transactions and then drive value post-deal.
We are now looking to recruit a number of Senior Associates to join our high performing team and support our continued growth. We are looking for people with a commercial mindset who can quickly get to the crux of business issues and deliver commercially "game changing" insight to our clients, enhancing the Deal value through compelling data analytics and modelling.
What we do Every assignment is different, but we broadly define our offering under the key headings;
Deal Analytics & Modelling - Increasing confidence in the deal by developing deal models and applying leading edge analytical software to provide commercial insight
CFO Office - Here, we typically help our clients post-deal, working closely with CFOs to provide insight and increased transparency through strategic planning, short term forecasting and dynamic board reporting
CEO Office - Again post deal, this is about identifying value creation opportunities using intelligent analytics e.g. product profitability, pricing, sales force effectiveness and strategic option analysis
Note that whilst these offerings sound different as they are about applying technology in different ways, all three involve the combination of commercial and technology skills to provide insight.The role As a Senior Associate, you will be supporting a broad range of analytical assignments, stretching yourself across many different industry sectors and engaging directly with the senior management team and investors of our clients.
Your first assignment may be working with CFOs or CEOs of leading PE backed or FTSE listed businesses to:
Improve clarity and transparency for investors and finance providers by developing a driver based integrated model which assists with the budgeting and forecasting
Assess shareholder return by implementing rapid analytics to assess the value drivers of the target business
Guide management's pricing decisions by evaluating the impact of price on margins and volume
Understand the performance of different customers and products by applying techniques such as cohort analysis and clustering
Bring together analytics and machine learning software to drive better decision making
Your responsibilities will include but may not be limited to:
Working in multidisciplinary teams directly with our clients to use data analysis, visualisation and modelling to support the Deal process;
Clear and concise communication of complex concepts and their business benefits to senior management (both internally and externally) from a range of backgrounds and business areas to help clients make robust, evidence based decisions
Connecting the dots from disparate information streams (e.g. extracts from client system, management reports, contracts) and turning them into structured data that can be analysed as part of a Deal process to provide greater insight to our clients;
Drafting reports and presentations and using data visualisation to explain our findings
To be considered you must have a strong academic background, have an accountancy qualification (ACA, CIMA etc) or have substantive finance and accounting knowledge and experience.
To be successful in this role, you will also need to demonstrate the following:
Exceptional analytical and technical aptitude, possess both financial and commercial acumen and enjoy problem solving to understand the drivers of a business, analyse their data and use this to provide insight and advice to our clients;
Have an entrepreneurial mindset and self-starter mentality, and be comfortable with a degree ambiguity with little supervision to come up with creative solutions to complex problems and develop these ideas into structured deliverable projects;
The ability to manage time, prioritise tasks, self-review your work and produce deliverables of a high quality under tight client deadlines in time pressured environments;
A strong desire to acquire and share technical knowledge with colleagues and clients
Passion for innovation, technology and new tools, and applying and developing yourself to new areas (e.g. quickly getting up to speed with tools, analytical approaches and business challenges)
The ability to build collaborative working relationships at all levels, establishing credibility both internally and externally
The following skills are also desirable but not essential:
Experience of M&A transactions
Strong excel skills and a desire to develop these further (i.e. confident in formulae, model building)
Relevant analytical/model building experience in industry or at a professional services firm
Experience in developing deliverables in visualisation tools, such as QlikView, Tableau or PowerBI
Experience with data structuring and use of software such as Alteryx
Experience with assisting business development activities through working on bids and proposal responses
About PwC
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