Job Purpose

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Platform, Solution or Enterprise Architect who enjoys working in a Research and Development environment to both drive strategic thinking and engage in immediate architecture challenges to create a significant R&D capability within a large organisation from the ground up.

The role will be to initially establish the current business problems and derive a strategic platform and technology roadmap so as to drive innovation through R&D. Thereafter hands on architecture support to drive out implementation for both vendor agnostic and proprietary software solutions will be required.

The post will require that aside from technology architectural aspects the individual will be innovative and comfortable engaging with internal customers, stakeholders, supporting programme planning, budgetary control, building and managing a sustainable team of Software Engineering staff.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Platform Architect - PwC’s Operate
• Grade: Senior Manager

Who we are

PwC’s Operate delivers operational and managed services solutions to clients across a range of situations; bringing together regulatory insight, highly skilled operational resource and an unrivalled technology offering to provide a high quality and cost effective solution to operational delivery challenges.

About the role

PwC’s Operate is seeking to establish an R&D centre to drive technology value as an enablement function, and beyond into products that can be delivered using a strategic platform to drive revenue, efficiencies, speed to market, extensibility and future proofing. The initial markets are Financial Services and Energy however,

• Understanding and documenting the strategic business problem and use cases.
• Owning the strategic architecture and roadmap.
• Identify and evaluate current and future technologies that can be leveraged to drive both strategic and immediate agenda.
• Evangelise and present strategic technologies and best practices to help spread acceptance within the delivery teams and executive management.
• Engage with industrial and academic partners to drive the research agenda and delivery roadmap.
• Own development of the Operate Services Platform.
• Support development of POC’s and MVP.
• Support development of vendor agnostic and proprietary software solutions.
• Provide technology thought leadership.
• Own and input as required programme and project plans.
• Own and input as required to financial planning and budgetary management.

Who we are looking for

The individual needs to be someone with extensive experience, preferably having began their career as a Software Engineer and who has progressed through to a Senior Architect role with a broad range of application, cross platform and full stack technology experience.

Essential Criteria

• Degree in software engineering or a related discipline.
• Significant experience developing software applications.
• Significant experience delivering software architectures.
• Significant experience owning strategic platform architectures and roadmaps.
• Experience understanding and translating business to technical requirements.
• Detailed knowledge of established software development operating models and methodologies including agile, scrum, iterative and waterfall.
• Knowledge of cloud development and operational environments.
• Knowledge of integration architectures and frameworks.
• Knowledge of data and analytics architectures and technology.
• Knowledge of workflow automation and robotic process automation tools.
• Knowledge of Order to Cash and Service Assurance stacks.
• Broad understanding of security architectures.
• Evidence of programme management and budgetary planning.
• Evidence of team management.

Desirable Criteria

• Financial services and energy sector experience.
• Deep knowledge of workflow automation and robotic process automation using vendor applications such as Decisions, Intapp, Fenergo and others.
• Deep knowledge of data and analytics architectures and platforms.
• Detailed AI based Optical Character Recognition and Natural Language Processing knowledge.
• Strong front end and back end software development skills using C, Java, Python, Angular and others.
• Google, AWS, TOGAF or similar architect accreditation.
• Patent and IP protection procedural knowledge.

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

Job Purpose

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Platform, Solution or Enterprise Architect who enjoys working in a Research and Development environment to both drive strategic thinking and engage in immediate architecture challenges to create a significant R&D capability within a large organisation from the ground up.

The role will be to initially establish the current business problems and derive a strategic platform and technology roadmap so as to drive innovation through R&D. Thereafter hands on architecture support to drive out implementation for both vendor agnostic and proprietary software solutions will be required.

The post will require that aside from technology architectural aspects the individual will be innovative and comfortable engaging with internal customers, stakeholders, supporting programme planning, budgetary control, building and managing a sustainable team of Software Engineering staff.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Platform Architect - PwC’s Operate
• Grade: Senior Manager

Who we are

PwC’s Operate delivers operational and managed services solutions to clients across a range of situations; bringing together regulatory insight, highly skilled operational resource and an unrivalled technology offering to provide a high quality and cost effective solution to operational delivery challenges.

About the role

PwC’s Operate is seeking to establish an R&D centre to drive technology value as an enablement function, and beyond into products that can be delivered using a strategic platform to drive revenue, efficiencies, speed to market, extensibility and future proofing. The initial markets are Financial Services and Energy however,

• Understanding and documenting the strategic business problem and use cases.
• Owning the strategic architecture and roadmap.
• Identify and evaluate current and future technologies that can be leveraged to drive both strategic and immediate agenda.
• Evangelise and present strategic technologies and best practices to help spread acceptance within the delivery teams and executive management.
• Engage with industrial and academic partners to drive the research agenda and delivery roadmap.
• Own development of the Operate Services Platform.
• Support development of POC’s and MVP.
• Support development of vendor agnostic and proprietary software solutions.
• Provide technology thought leadership.
• Own and input as required programme and project plans.
• Own and input as required to financial planning and budgetary management.

Who we are looking for

The individual needs to be someone with extensive experience, preferably having began their career as a Software Engineer and who has progressed through to a Senior Architect role with a broad range of application, cross platform and full stack technology experience.

Essential Criteria

• Degree in software engineering or a related discipline.
• Significant experience developing software applications.
• Significant experience delivering software architectures.
• Significant experience owning strategic platform architectures and roadmaps.
• Experience understanding and translating business to technical requirements.
• Detailed knowledge of established software development operating models and methodologies including agile, scrum, iterative and waterfall.
• Knowledge of cloud development and operational environments.
• Knowledge of integration architectures and frameworks.
• Knowledge of data and analytics architectures and technology.
• Knowledge of workflow automation and robotic process automation tools.
• Knowledge of Order to Cash and Service Assurance stacks.
• Broad understanding of security architectures.
• Evidence of programme management and budgetary planning.
• Evidence of team management.

Desirable Criteria

• Financial services and energy sector experience.
• Deep knowledge of workflow automation and robotic process automation using vendor applications such as Decisions, Intapp, Fenergo and others.
• Deep knowledge of data and analytics architectures and platforms.
• Detailed AI based Optical Character Recognition and Natural Language Processing knowledge.
• Strong front end and back end software development skills using C, Java, Python, Angular and others.
• Google, AWS, TOGAF or similar architect accreditation.
• Patent and IP protection procedural knowledge.

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

A career in Client Implementation and Execution, within Client Service Support services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients transform their customer service and engagements from cost centres into revenue generating businesses across all PwC lines of service. In joining, you’ll help clients develop and implement a customer service and engagement strategy that is aligned with their customer experience strategy, enhancing customer engagement while lowering costs, and optimising operations to ensure they are getting the most value possible.

Who we are

PwC’s Operate business delivers large operational and managed service solutions for clients to meet regulatory, risk and compliance challenges.

With over 1,200 staff deployed on large implementation and execution programmes, Operate brings together top talent with a distinctive mix of knowledge and skills. We support clients in the delivery of large scale operational programmes and managed solutions. We deliver our client work from a range of locations, providing our clients with cost-effective delivery, access to subject matter expertise and operational excellence disciplines for some of the biggest brands worldwide.

Base Location

Belfast

The role will be based in Belfast, however as a result of the wide variety of clients and projects, you may be asked to work in other locations and beyond, sometimes at short notice and sometimes over lengthy periods of time. Your desire and ability to do this will be discussed as part of the recruitment process. Candidates who are unable or do not wish to work on projects in other locations will still be considered.

Job Description

As a Lead Technical Business Analyst, you will be able to effectively and efficiently manage the definition, analysis, delivery and maintenance of business, project and system requirements. You will also support transformation and change projects for our clients, who are predominantly within the financial services sector. As projects are typically carried out on client sites, our team member’s work from local, national and international locations for the duration of client engagements.

The responsibilities of each role will vary depending on client needs but will likely include

• Writing and designing process maps
• Preparing business requirements, documenting ‘As Is’ and ‘To Be’ processes and delivering process flows
• Assisting in the development and / or implementation of Target Operating Models
• Coordinating project input
• Defining reporting structures to management
• Formally documenting functions
• Writing process documentation
• Experience of making prompt and practical business decisions

What is in it for you?

As we’re responsive to client demands, your role will be varied and challenging, providing you with an opportunity to work with a wide variety of high profile clients. We’re also exceptionally passionate about providing you with the necessary skills, experience and training to help you develop both personally and professionally. You’ll therefore be included on our specific Operate training framework, tailored to match your skills, needs and career aspirations. Fully funded by us, you’ll complete externally accredited qualifications that will benefit you in the role you are working in. Our training programme is further enhanced through a variety of softer skills training sessions focusing on your relationships and leadership skills.

In addition to the client projects and training, our employees are also rewarded with various other as part of your employment

• Our dedicated internal Careers Service.
• Competitive salary plus a potential discretionary bonus (performance related)
• 25 days standard holiday pro rata, with options to increase this through your benefits package
• A flexible benefits scheme that can be tailored to suit your (and your family’s) needs. Provision of a group pension plan with additional funding provided by PwC

Requirements

We’re looking for candidates with the following -

Essential

• Previous experience working as a Business Analyst in a corporate function
• Knowledge and/or certifications in other technological disciplines such as data, digital or cloud
• Previous experience of working in an IT enabled change environment
• Demonstrable experience of success within a range of complex project environments and sectors
• Significant technical understanding of Business Analysis frameworks, value cycles, business processes, business requirements and UAT methodologies
• Good knowledge of the MS Office Suite, in particular strong knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
• Proven ability to integrate well into a team and build relationships with senior stakeholders
• Proven analytical and sceptical mindset with an ability to develop solutions to technical problems
• One or more of the following or other relevant qualifications
• BCS Business Analysis Foundation
• BCS Business Analysis Practice
• BCS Requirements Engineering
• MCSE Data Management and Analytics
• Six Sigma - Yellow Belt to Master Black Belt

Preferred

• Undergraduate degree (e.g. BA, BSc)
• Previous experience working within a financial services sector
• Data analysis and modelling skills

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

A career in Client Implementation and Execution, within Client Service Support services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients transform their customer service and engagements from cost centres into revenue generating businesses across all PwC lines of service. In joining, you’ll help clients develop and implement a customer service and engagement strategy that is aligned with their customer experience strategy, enhancing customer engagement while lowering costs, and optimising operations to ensure they are getting the most value possible.

Who we are

PwC’s Operate business delivers large operational and managed service solutions for clients to meet regulatory, risk and compliance challenges.

With over 1,200 staff deployed on large implementation and execution programmes, Operate brings together top talent with a distinctive mix of knowledge and skills. We support clients in the delivery of large scale operational programmes and managed solutions. We deliver our client work from a range of locations, providing our clients with cost-effective delivery, access to subject matter expertise and operational excellence disciplines for some of the biggest brands worldwide.

Base Location

Belfast

The role will be based in Belfast, however as a result of the wide variety of clients and projects, you may be asked to work in other locations and beyond, sometimes at short notice and sometimes over lengthy periods of time. Your desire and ability to do this will be discussed as part of the recruitment process. Candidates who are unable or do not wish to work on projects in other locations will still be considered.

Job Description

As a Lead Technical Business Analyst, you will be able to effectively and efficiently manage the definition, analysis, delivery and maintenance of business, project and system requirements. You will also support transformation and change projects for our clients, who are predominantly within the financial services sector. As projects are typically carried out on client sites, our team member’s work from local, national and international locations for the duration of client engagements.

The responsibilities of each role will vary depending on client needs but will likely include

• Writing and designing process maps
• Preparing business requirements, documenting ‘As Is’ and ‘To Be’ processes and delivering process flows
• Assisting in the development and / or implementation of Target Operating Models
• Coordinating project input
• Defining reporting structures to management
• Formally documenting functions
• Writing process documentation
• Experience of making prompt and practical business decisions

What is in it for you?

As we’re responsive to client demands, your role will be varied and challenging, providing you with an opportunity to work with a wide variety of high profile clients. We’re also exceptionally passionate about providing you with the necessary skills, experience and training to help you develop both personally and professionally. You’ll therefore be included on our specific Operate training framework, tailored to match your skills, needs and career aspirations. Fully funded by us, you’ll complete externally accredited qualifications that will benefit you in the role you are working in. Our training programme is further enhanced through a variety of softer skills training sessions focusing on your relationships and leadership skills.

In addition to the client projects and training, our employees are also rewarded with various other as part of your employment

• Our dedicated internal Careers Service.
• Competitive salary plus a potential discretionary bonus (performance related)
• 25 days standard holiday pro rata, with options to increase this through your benefits package
• A flexible benefits scheme that can be tailored to suit your (and your family’s) needs. Provision of a group pension plan with additional funding provided by PwC

Requirements

We’re looking for candidates with the following -

Essential

• Previous experience working as a Business Analyst in a corporate function
• Knowledge and/or certifications in other technological disciplines such as data, digital or cloud
• Previous experience of working in an IT enabled change environment
• Demonstrable experience of success within a range of complex project environments and sectors
• Significant technical understanding of Business Analysis frameworks, value cycles, business processes, business requirements and UAT methodologies
• Good knowledge of the MS Office Suite, in particular strong knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
• Proven ability to integrate well into a team and build relationships with senior stakeholders
• Proven analytical and sceptical mindset with an ability to develop solutions to technical problems
• One or more of the following or other relevant qualifications
• BCS Business Analysis Foundation
• BCS Business Analysis Practice
• BCS Requirements Engineering
• MCSE Data Management and Analytics
• Six Sigma - Yellow Belt to Master Black Belt

Preferred

• Undergraduate degree (e.g. BA, BSc)
• Previous experience working within a financial services sector
• Data analysis and modelling skills

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

A career in Client Implementation and Execution, within Client Service Support services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients transform their customer service and engagements from cost centres into revenue generating businesses across all PwC lines of service. In joining, you’ll help clients develop and implement a customer service and engagement strategy that is aligned with their customer experience strategy, enhancing customer engagement while lowering costs, and optimising operations to ensure they are getting the most value possible.

Who we are

PwC’s Operate delivers operational and managed services solutions to clients across a range of situations; bringing together regulatory insight, highly skilled operational resource and an unrivalled technology offering to provide a high quality and cost effective solution to operational delivery challenges.

About the role

Finance Solutions is one of the PwC Operate teams, currently experiencing growth. Finance Solutions provides operational delivery expertise for large execution programmes through a variety of offerings.

Finance Solutions is seeking a Data Visualisation and Application Developer to create high-quality and comprehensible visualisations for a wide array of stakeholders (management to executive level) within our Finance Solutions Data Analytics team. Data Analytics supports our clients by utilising modern technology and scripting languages to transform, analyse and report on business critical information needed for our clients to make decisions in the most efficient way possible. The team also supports internal process improvements through development of in-house web applications to improve efficiency and bring about new ways of working.

As we’re responsive to client demands, your role will be varied and challenging, providing you with an opportunity to work with a wide variety of clients.

About You

• Adaptable and open minded to deal with changing business needs
• Open to pursuing professional qualifications, certifications and training
• Technically minded to create innovative solutions to complex problems
• An analytical thinker capable of decision making when under pressure
• Curious to challenge the status quo and push the boundaries of technology
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to creatively tell a story with data to a wide range of management to executive stakeholders.

Your Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include

• Transforming, analysing and producing reports and dashboards to a range of stakeholders
• Understanding business and technical requirements; develop, document and implement solution design
• Forging and building new relationships throughout Operate to ensure the visibility of the Finance Solutions Data Analytics team’s production capability
• Hands on delivery of solutions throughout the entire life cycle, including day-to-day management of ongoing engagements
• Essential Requirements
• Proven experience and background in data visualisation to a wide range of stakeholders
• Experience with data visualisation tools such as PowerBI, Tableau or comparable
• Experience with PL/SQl
• Strong analytical skills with experience in problem solving and being able to implement and deliver solutions
• Proven ability to be a team player, while retaining the ability to work independently with little supervision
• Proven capability to communicate verbally and in writing with stakeholders at a variety of levels

Desirable Requirements

• Experience with self-service data analytics platforms such as Alteryx, Tableau Prep or comparable
• Experience with the .Net Framework (either C# or VB)
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or GCP
• Key Responsibilities
• Implementation of finance systems across a variety of clients and sectors
• Gathering and refining business and technical requirements
• Process design and optimisation
• Understanding our clients’ business needs and developing solutions to meet these needs and solve complex problems
• Onboarding clients; installing and configuring applications according to client requirements and loading client data where relevant
• Applying your knowledge of technology developments and key issues affecting

Location

This role is based in Belfast but may occasionally require some travel to help support our client base throughout the UK.

What’s in it for you?

In addition to the client projects and training, our employees are also rewarded with various other benefits offered as part of your employment

• Our dedicated internal Careers Service.
• 25 days standard holiday pro rata, with options to increase this through your benefits package
• A flexible benefits scheme that can be tailored to suit your (and your family’s) needs.
• Provision of a group pension plan with additional funding provided by PwC

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

A career in Client Implementation and Execution, within Client Service Support services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients transform their customer service and engagements from cost centres into revenue generating businesses across all PwC lines of service. In joining, you’ll help clients develop and implement a customer service and engagement strategy that is aligned with their customer experience strategy, enhancing customer engagement while lowering costs, and optimising operations to ensure they are getting the most value possible.

Who we are

PwC’s Operate delivers operational and managed services solutions to clients across a range of situations; bringing together regulatory insight, highly skilled operational resource and an unrivalled technology offering to provide a high quality and cost effective solution to operational delivery challenges.

About the role

Finance Solutions is one of the PwC Operate teams, currently experiencing growth. Finance Solutions provides operational delivery expertise for large execution programmes through a variety of offerings.

Finance Solutions is seeking a Data Visualisation and Application Developer to create high-quality and comprehensible visualisations for a wide array of stakeholders (management to executive level) within our Finance Solutions Data Analytics team. Data Analytics supports our clients by utilising modern technology and scripting languages to transform, analyse and report on business critical information needed for our clients to make decisions in the most efficient way possible. The team also supports internal process improvements through development of in-house web applications to improve efficiency and bring about new ways of working.

As we’re responsive to client demands, your role will be varied and challenging, providing you with an opportunity to work with a wide variety of clients.

About You

• Adaptable and open minded to deal with changing business needs
• Open to pursuing professional qualifications, certifications and training
• Technically minded to create innovative solutions to complex problems
• An analytical thinker capable of decision making when under pressure
• Curious to challenge the status quo and push the boundaries of technology
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to creatively tell a story with data to a wide range of management to executive stakeholders.

Your Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include

• Transforming, analysing and producing reports and dashboards to a range of stakeholders
• Understanding business and technical requirements; develop, document and implement solution design
• Forging and building new relationships throughout Operate to ensure the visibility of the Finance Solutions Data Analytics team’s production capability
• Hands on delivery of solutions throughout the entire life cycle, including day-to-day management of ongoing engagements
• Essential Requirements
• Proven experience and background in data visualisation to a wide range of stakeholders
• Experience with data visualisation tools such as PowerBI, Tableau or comparable
• Experience with PL/SQl
• Strong analytical skills with experience in problem solving and being able to implement and deliver solutions
• Proven ability to be a team player, while retaining the ability to work independently with little supervision
• Proven capability to communicate verbally and in writing with stakeholders at a variety of levels

Desirable Requirements

• Experience with self-service data analytics platforms such as Alteryx, Tableau Prep or comparable
• Experience with the .Net Framework (either C# or VB)
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or GCP
• Key Responsibilities
• Implementation of finance systems across a variety of clients and sectors
• Gathering and refining business and technical requirements
• Process design and optimisation
• Understanding our clients’ business needs and developing solutions to meet these needs and solve complex problems
• Onboarding clients; installing and configuring applications according to client requirements and loading client data where relevant
• Applying your knowledge of technology developments and key issues affecting

Location

This role is based in Belfast but may occasionally require some travel to help support our client base throughout the UK.

What’s in it for you?

In addition to the client projects and training, our employees are also rewarded with various other benefits offered as part of your employment

• Our dedicated internal Careers Service.
• 25 days standard holiday pro rata, with options to increase this through your benefits package
• A flexible benefits scheme that can be tailored to suit your (and your family’s) needs.
• Provision of a group pension plan with additional funding provided by PwC

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

A career in our Tax Compliance Services practice, within Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet and manage their tax obligations across unique but ever changing tax specialties. You'll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing indirect taxes, dispute resolution, and global enterprise tax solutions.

Our team helps our clients with compliance across all taxes, statutory accounting and complex tax reporting. You'll focus on bookkeeping and monthly reporting, drafting, auditing and filing of local statutory financial statements, and transaction processing.

Responsibilities

As a Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Senior Managers and above
• Be involved in the financial management of clients
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
• Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen
• Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges
• Assist in the management and delivering of large projects
• Train, coach, and supervise staff
• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
• Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand

Your role will work alongside other compliance and relationship managers, you will manage a range of activities that together will result in high quality service for the clients in your portfolio including:

• Up-front scoping and engagement planning with clients
• Liaise with the Data Management team on the approach to data collection for your clients.
• Review and submission of tax accounting schedules
• Review and ultimate submission of corporation tax returns
• Opportunity spotting for related PwC services and helping clients to manage their tax risk.
• You will be expected to have a high level of client contact in this role and will, of course, be expected to organise, monitor and manage your own workload.
• Budget management/monitoring and assist in the development of other staff as required.
• Assist in the development of other staff, which includes delegation and coaching.
• In the role you will become involved in the running of the business in order to contribute to the growth and profitability of the business team. This will include continual development and involvement in the risk procedures for the business.

Requirements

The successful candidate will possess initiative and enthusiasm and will show the ability to work in and contribute to the team and will possess the personal skills needed to form successful relationships. The successful candidate will have the majority of the following skills and experience:

• Be ACA or CTA qualified (ideally through first time passes).
• Strong UK corporate tax skills.
• UK GAAP and IFRS tax accounting experience
• Has a highly developed client service ethos and can adopt a flexible approach to meeting client needs.
• Be able to establish, build and maintain a good working relationship with key decision makers, including partners and senior client personnel.
• Have the ability to help manage and build new business through referrals, networking and spotting client opportunities.
• Be an effective delegator, strong at coaching junior staff.
• This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to join a growing business that offers exposure to an unrivalled range of clients and specialist tax areas. We offer a competitive salary and a wide range of flexible benefits.

Tax

We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we’re one of the UK’s leading tax practices.

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

A career in our Tax Compliance Services practice, within Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet and manage their tax obligations across unique but ever changing tax specialties. You'll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing indirect taxes, dispute resolution, and global enterprise tax solutions.

Our team helps our clients with compliance across all taxes, statutory accounting and complex tax reporting. You'll focus on bookkeeping and monthly reporting, drafting, auditing and filing of local statutory financial statements, and transaction processing.

Responsibilities

As a Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Senior Managers and above
• Be involved in the financial management of clients
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
• Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen
• Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges
• Assist in the management and delivering of large projects
• Train, coach, and supervise staff
• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
• Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand

Your role will work alongside other compliance and relationship managers, you will manage a range of activities that together will result in high quality service for the clients in your portfolio including:

• Up-front scoping and engagement planning with clients
• Liaise with the Data Management team on the approach to data collection for your clients.
• Review and submission of tax accounting schedules
• Review and ultimate submission of corporation tax returns
• Opportunity spotting for related PwC services and helping clients to manage their tax risk.
• You will be expected to have a high level of client contact in this role and will, of course, be expected to organise, monitor and manage your own workload.
• Budget management/monitoring and assist in the development of other staff as required.
• Assist in the development of other staff, which includes delegation and coaching.
• In the role you will become involved in the running of the business in order to contribute to the growth and profitability of the business team. This will include continual development and involvement in the risk procedures for the business.

Requirements

The successful candidate will possess initiative and enthusiasm and will show the ability to work in and contribute to the team and will possess the personal skills needed to form successful relationships. The successful candidate will have the majority of the following skills and experience:

• Be ACA or CTA qualified (ideally through first time passes).
• Strong UK corporate tax skills.
• UK GAAP and IFRS tax accounting experience
• Has a highly developed client service ethos and can adopt a flexible approach to meeting client needs.
• Be able to establish, build and maintain a good working relationship with key decision makers, including partners and senior client personnel.
• Have the ability to help manage and build new business through referrals, networking and spotting client opportunities.
• Be an effective delegator, strong at coaching junior staff.
• This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to join a growing business that offers exposure to an unrivalled range of clients and specialist tax areas. We offer a competitive salary and a wide range of flexible benefits.

Tax

We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we’re one of the UK’s leading tax practices.

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

PwC’s Operate business delivers large operational and managed service solutions for clients to meet regulatory, risk and compliance challenges. With over 1,400 staff deployed on large implementation and execution programmes. Operate brings together top talent with a distinctive mix of knowledge and skills. We support clients by providing staff augmentation services, delivering large scale operational programmes and managed solutions. We deliver our client work from a range of locations, providing our clients with cost-effective delivery, access to subject matter expertise and operational excellence disciplines for some of the biggest brands worldwide.

About the role

We are looking for legal focused graduates who want to start their career in professional services as well as individuals who have gained some relevant legal experience.

The specific roles and responsibilities are dependant on skills and experience, and may include:

• Providing support on various banking projects, including risk, regulation and commercial
• Reviewing and reporting on contracts and other information as part of corporate due diligence exercises
• Checking legal documentation for quality, consistency and content
• Completing forms, pro forma documents, company searches and indexing/sending documentation to data rooms/storage
• Case and documentation review - analysing legal and other documents to identify key facts, anomalies etc, for categorisation
• Assisting with post completion tasks on legal projects
• Conducting legal and commercial market research

Requirements of the Role

Essential:

• Minimum 2.2 degree in a legal subject (candidates with relevant experience and/or qualifications, may also be considered)
• Self-starter and motivated to succeed
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to apply a logical and analytical approach to work
• Aptitude for learning new systems and IT applications

Preferred

• Experience in a legal/corporate environment
• Previous legal services work experience within a legal and/or paralegal role would advantageous

What is in it for you?

This is a challenging but rewarding role, directly influencing team members to achieve our strategic growth ambitions. You will also be given the opportunity to employ your skills across a broad range of client programmes. We’re also exceptionally passionate about providing you with the necessary skills, experience and training to help you develop both personally and professionally. You’ll therefore be included on our specific training framework, tailored to match your skills, needs and career aspirations. Fully funded by us, you’ll complete externally accredited qualifications that will benefit you in the role you are working in. Our training programme is further enhanced through a variety of softer skills training sessions focusing on your relationships right through to leadership skills.

In addition to the client projects and training, our employees are also rewarded with various other benefits offered as part of your employment

• Our dedicated internal Careers Service.
• Competitive salary
• 25 days standard holiday pro rata, with options to increase this through your benefits package
• A flexible benefits scheme that can be tailored to suit your (and your family’s) needs. Provision of a group pension plan with additional funding provided by PwC

Where will you be based?

The role will be based in Belfast, however as a result of the wide variety of clients and projects, you may be asked to work in other locations within the UK and beyond, sometimes at short notice and sometimes over lengthy periods of time. Your desire and ability to do this will be discussed as part of the recruitment process. Candidates who are unable or do not wish to work on projects in other locations will still be considered.

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

PwC’s Operate business delivers large operational and managed service solutions for clients to meet regulatory, risk and compliance challenges. With over 1,400 staff deployed on large implementation and execution programmes. Operate brings together top talent with a distinctive mix of knowledge and skills. We support clients by providing staff augmentation services, delivering large scale operational programmes and managed solutions. We deliver our client work from a range of locations, providing our clients with cost-effective delivery, access to subject matter expertise and operational excellence disciplines for some of the biggest brands worldwide.

About the role

We are looking for legal focused graduates who want to start their career in professional services as well as individuals who have gained some relevant legal experience.

The specific roles and responsibilities are dependant on skills and experience, and may include:

• Providing support on various banking projects, including risk, regulation and commercial
• Reviewing and reporting on contracts and other information as part of corporate due diligence exercises
• Checking legal documentation for quality, consistency and content
• Completing forms, pro forma documents, company searches and indexing/sending documentation to data rooms/storage
• Case and documentation review - analysing legal and other documents to identify key facts, anomalies etc, for categorisation
• Assisting with post completion tasks on legal projects
• Conducting legal and commercial market research

Requirements of the Role

Essential:

• Minimum 2.2 degree in a legal subject (candidates with relevant experience and/or qualifications, may also be considered)
• Self-starter and motivated to succeed
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to apply a logical and analytical approach to work
• Aptitude for learning new systems and IT applications

Preferred

• Experience in a legal/corporate environment
• Previous legal services work experience within a legal and/or paralegal role would advantageous

What is in it for you?

This is a challenging but rewarding role, directly influencing team members to achieve our strategic growth ambitions. You will also be given the opportunity to employ your skills across a broad range of client programmes. We’re also exceptionally passionate about providing you with the necessary skills, experience and training to help you develop both personally and professionally. You’ll therefore be included on our specific training framework, tailored to match your skills, needs and career aspirations. Fully funded by us, you’ll complete externally accredited qualifications that will benefit you in the role you are working in. Our training programme is further enhanced through a variety of softer skills training sessions focusing on your relationships right through to leadership skills.

In addition to the client projects and training, our employees are also rewarded with various other benefits offered as part of your employment

• Our dedicated internal Careers Service.
• Competitive salary
• 25 days standard holiday pro rata, with options to increase this through your benefits package
• A flexible benefits scheme that can be tailored to suit your (and your family’s) needs. Provision of a group pension plan with additional funding provided by PwC

Where will you be based?

The role will be based in Belfast, however as a result of the wide variety of clients and projects, you may be asked to work in other locations within the UK and beyond, sometimes at short notice and sometimes over lengthy periods of time. Your desire and ability to do this will be discussed as part of the recruitment process. Candidates who are unable or do not wish to work on projects in other locations will still be considered.

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.