PwC’s Accounting Services (AS) are a leading market focused business, providing corporate accounting services to national and multinational corporations, with a focus on helping them remain compliant and providing insights to their operations. It’s services are relationship based, high quality and process and cost efficient delivered by a technically proficient, innovative, commercially focused and agile national team. It is a team that respects and values each other and has a strong reputation and profile.

Who we are looking for

The AS team is looking for a qualified ACA / ACCA Manager, with broad accounting / finance experience gained working within practice, to join our expanding AS team. AS provides outsourced accounting services.

These include:

• The preparation of local GAAP statutory financial statements (SFS).
• Providing skilled accounting resource on secondment, where there is a temporary need for additional resource.
• Bookkeeping and preparation of periodic management accounts.

In addition, AS manages and controls the preparation of local SFS for cross border clients.

• AS also provides advisory services which include:
• Advising on statutory accounting compliance requirements.
• Advising on improvements to the SFS cycle i.e. the production, audit and filing of SFS.
• A Manager in AS requires the ability to manage a portfolio of clients and to work on ad hoc projects.

An AS Manager needs the ability to apply their accounting compliance knowledge to major proposals to help manage and grow the AS accounting compliance portfolio worldwide. In addition, the ability to contribute to the development of the accounting advisory service offering with regards to process improvement, technology, risk and controls is required.

The role also requires an ability to take responsibility for the management of accounting staff, as well as participating in group management matters such as, effective financial management of own portfolio of clients and participation in group technical training meetings.

The role will be largely office based, however some travel and overnight stays may be required.

About the role

As part of PwC, the largest global accounting firm, AS offers a challenging and exciting career path. AS has a varied and prestigious client base and works with various specialists in their own field which, combined with the importance placed on continuous technical training and personal development, provides an excellent opportunity for career development.

The role has come about due to the planned expansion of AS.

The individual will report directly to Senior Managers and the Director who lead AS.

Requirements

Essential skills:

• Qualified ACA / ACCA with proven management experience in a medium to large accountancy firm.
• Strong accounting skills and technical knowledge on financial reporting matters including the ability to work from first principles.
• Successfully deal with “companies in a mess”.
• Very good working knowledge of UK GAAP / IFRS and some awareness of US GAAP..
• IT literate, ideally with some experience of accounting packages and very good excel spreadsheet skills.
• Highly professional attitude to providing a quality service in a deadline driven environment.
• Self motivated with strong communication skills (written and oral).
• Strong supervisory skills and ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to develop and coach staff.
• Demonstrate flexibility in changing client demand environment.
• Proactive and be able to identify opportunities for business development.

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 Accounting Services (AS) are a leading market focused business, providing corporate accounting services to national and multinational corporations, with a focus on helping them remain compliant and providing insights to their operations. It’s services are relationship based, high quality and process and cost efficient delivered by a technically proficient, innovative, commercially focused and agile national team. It is a team that respects and values each other and has a strong reputation and profile.

Who we are looking for

The AS team is looking for a qualified ACA / ACCA Manager, with broad accounting / finance experience gained working within practice, to join our expanding AS team. AS provides outsourced accounting services.

These include:

• The preparation of local GAAP statutory financial statements (SFS).
• Providing skilled accounting resource on secondment, where there is a temporary need for additional resource.
• Bookkeeping and preparation of periodic management accounts.

In addition, AS manages and controls the preparation of local SFS for cross border clients.

• AS also provides advisory services which include:
• Advising on statutory accounting compliance requirements.
• Advising on improvements to the SFS cycle i.e. the production, audit and filing of SFS.
• A Manager in AS requires the ability to manage a portfolio of clients and to work on ad hoc projects.

An AS Manager needs the ability to apply their accounting compliance knowledge to major proposals to help manage and grow the AS accounting compliance portfolio worldwide. In addition, the ability to contribute to the development of the accounting advisory service offering with regards to process improvement, technology, risk and controls is required.

The role also requires an ability to take responsibility for the management of accounting staff, as well as participating in group management matters such as, effective financial management of own portfolio of clients and participation in group technical training meetings.

The role will be largely office based, however some travel and overnight stays may be required.

About the role

As part of PwC, the largest global accounting firm, AS offers a challenging and exciting career path. AS has a varied and prestigious client base and works with various specialists in their own field which, combined with the importance placed on continuous technical training and personal development, provides an excellent opportunity for career development.

The role has come about due to the planned expansion of AS.

The individual will report directly to Senior Managers and the Director who lead AS.

Requirements

Essential skills:

• Qualified ACA / ACCA with proven management experience in a medium to large accountancy firm.
• Strong accounting skills and technical knowledge on financial reporting matters including the ability to work from first principles.
• Successfully deal with “companies in a mess”.
• Very good working knowledge of UK GAAP / IFRS and some awareness of US GAAP..
• IT literate, ideally with some experience of accounting packages and very good excel spreadsheet skills.
• Highly professional attitude to providing a quality service in a deadline driven environment.
• Self motivated with strong communication skills (written and oral).
• Strong supervisory skills and ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to develop and coach staff.
• Demonstrate flexibility in changing client demand environment.
• Proactive and be able to identify opportunities for business development.

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.

Who we are looking for

Are you from a Strategy Consulting or Corporate Strategy background with a focus on Technology Media or Telecoms? Do you have Commercial Due Diligence experience?

PwC’s Strategy& Deals practice is growing quickly and we are looking for strategy professionals to join us through the next phase of our journey.

The Strategy& Deals Technology, Media and Telecoms team is looking for Managers to join our team. The ideal candidate will be an experienced strategy consultant from a recognised firm or has experience in the strategy department, and specifically in conducting commercial due diligence, in a corporate environment.

About the Strategy& Deals Team more broadly

PwC’s Strategy& Deals practice is comprised of approximately 170 consultants in London with strong international practices across the PwC & Strategy& network. Our teams work with a wide variety of corporate clients and investors, with a mix of transaction-related work (commercial due diligence, synergy assessment, pre and post-deal value creation) and strategy development (growth strategy, market entry, initiative prioritisation, policy assessment). We support private equity firms, investment funds and corporate clients through their toughest decisions including group and business unit strategy, investment trade-offs, M&A and much more. In all of these cases we provide detailed evaluation of the target or our client’s proposition and market need, and help identify opportunities or constraints to be addressed.

About the Technology, Media and Telecoms team

You would be joining a market-leading and fast growing team that consistently works with leading UK and international businesses and private equity/venture capital investors.

Our team is organised into 3 sub-sectors

• Our Technology team works across the software, comms, IT services, security, & hardware markets, with particular strengths in software and cyber-security
• Our Media team works across both B2B and B2C media markets, as well as across all formats, with leading work in digital advertising
• Our Telecoms business focuses on fibre, towers, data centres, B2B telecoms and broader telecoms players.

The strategy professional we are looking to recruit will likely specialise in a particular sub-sector. You may be required, from time to time, to work in other sectors as per business need

About the role

Our projects are typically short and sharp, providing the opportunity to gain a variety of experience across sectors and/or engagement types, whilst continuously learning and developing. You'll work on client projects in teams of varying sizes, coaching less experienced team members. You will be interacting with clients and operating closely with senior members of the team, this combination of responsibility and senior support provides individuals with significant development opportunities.

Typical duties include

• Leading a team of consultants and taking responsibility for project delivery
• Running projects on a day-to-day basis, structuring and managing the work streams and supervising delivery
• Coordinating with key project stakeholders including clients and other internal teams
• Managing appropriate senior team input and ensuring progress and risks are effectively communicated to senior team members throughout the project
• Planning initial hypotheses and analysis; formulating initial hypotheses based on previous experience, knowledge of the sector and understanding of the scope of work
• Storyboarding to present a compelling narrative to the client
• Developing the approach to address the project brief, and driving research and analysis with appropriate tools and techniques
• Contributing to conclusions and supporting senior team members in presenting back to the client
• Contributing to the wider business through business development, knowledge sharing, coaching and mentoring junior team members and other activities

Our team is primarily based in the London Bridge office, with c. 10-20% of time spent on client sites, typically throughout the UK and Europe.

Requirements

• Previous strategy consulting experience from either a strategy consulting firm or the strategy or business development function of a Technology, Media, or Telecoms business
• Experience of working in or advising clients in the Technology (software, comms, IT services, security, hardware), Media (B2B, B2C), or Telecoms (Networks, Operators, Infrastructure) industries
• Direct experience of managing strategy and commercial due diligence assignments for private equity or corporate clients, with the ability to act independently
• Strong technical skills in;
  • Market and competitor analysis (market sizing, drivers and dynamics, competitive intensity, etc.)
  • Customer analysis (segmentation, customer journeys)
  • Internal analysis (capabilities, business model review, financial assessment)
• An ability to multi-task effectively and balance time between project delivery and business development support effectively
• Good client management skills, including an understanding of how to communicate with clients of different backgrounds and opinions
• Proven experience of coaching junior team members
• Evidence of contributing to the wider team and leading on business development opportunities
• We expect candidates to have an outstanding academic track record and have demonstrated a pattern of exceptional achievement
• Fluency in another (European) language is an asset

You’ll be joining a driven and diverse team that’s welcoming of your opinions and enables you to develop within one of the world’s leading professional organisations. With an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working requirements where appropriate and have many successful arrangements currently in place. Please apply if you have a keen interest in the work we do.

Deals

Our Deals business is an exciting, fast-paced and an ever-growing business that focuses on deals and crisis situations for our clients. Collectively, we deal with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and we provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business.

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.

Who we are looking for

Are you from a Strategy Consulting or Corporate Strategy background with a focus on Technology Media or Telecoms? Do you have Commercial Due Diligence experience?

PwC’s Strategy& Deals practice is growing quickly and we are looking for strategy professionals to join us through the next phase of our journey.

The Strategy& Deals Technology, Media and Telecoms team is looking for Managers to join our team. The ideal candidate will be an experienced strategy consultant from a recognised firm or has experience in the strategy department, and specifically in conducting commercial due diligence, in a corporate environment.

About the Strategy& Deals Team more broadly

PwC’s Strategy& Deals practice is comprised of approximately 170 consultants in London with strong international practices across the PwC & Strategy& network. Our teams work with a wide variety of corporate clients and investors, with a mix of transaction-related work (commercial due diligence, synergy assessment, pre and post-deal value creation) and strategy development (growth strategy, market entry, initiative prioritisation, policy assessment). We support private equity firms, investment funds and corporate clients through their toughest decisions including group and business unit strategy, investment trade-offs, M&A and much more. In all of these cases we provide detailed evaluation of the target or our client’s proposition and market need, and help identify opportunities or constraints to be addressed.

About the Technology, Media and Telecoms team

You would be joining a market-leading and fast growing team that consistently works with leading UK and international businesses and private equity/venture capital investors.

Our team is organised into 3 sub-sectors

• Our Technology team works across the software, comms, IT services, security, & hardware markets, with particular strengths in software and cyber-security
• Our Media team works across both B2B and B2C media markets, as well as across all formats, with leading work in digital advertising
• Our Telecoms business focuses on fibre, towers, data centres, B2B telecoms and broader telecoms players.

The strategy professional we are looking to recruit will likely specialise in a particular sub-sector. You may be required, from time to time, to work in other sectors as per business need

About the role

Our projects are typically short and sharp, providing the opportunity to gain a variety of experience across sectors and/or engagement types, whilst continuously learning and developing. You'll work on client projects in teams of varying sizes, coaching less experienced team members. You will be interacting with clients and operating closely with senior members of the team, this combination of responsibility and senior support provides individuals with significant development opportunities.

Typical duties include

• Leading a team of consultants and taking responsibility for project delivery
• Running projects on a day-to-day basis, structuring and managing the work streams and supervising delivery
• Coordinating with key project stakeholders including clients and other internal teams
• Managing appropriate senior team input and ensuring progress and risks are effectively communicated to senior team members throughout the project
• Planning initial hypotheses and analysis; formulating initial hypotheses based on previous experience, knowledge of the sector and understanding of the scope of work
• Storyboarding to present a compelling narrative to the client
• Developing the approach to address the project brief, and driving research and analysis with appropriate tools and techniques
• Contributing to conclusions and supporting senior team members in presenting back to the client
• Contributing to the wider business through business development, knowledge sharing, coaching and mentoring junior team members and other activities

Our team is primarily based in the London Bridge office, with c. 10-20% of time spent on client sites, typically throughout the UK and Europe.

Requirements

• Previous strategy consulting experience from either a strategy consulting firm or the strategy or business development function of a Technology, Media, or Telecoms business
• Experience of working in or advising clients in the Technology (software, comms, IT services, security, hardware), Media (B2B, B2C), or Telecoms (Networks, Operators, Infrastructure) industries
• Direct experience of managing strategy and commercial due diligence assignments for private equity or corporate clients, with the ability to act independently
• Strong technical skills in;
  • Market and competitor analysis (market sizing, drivers and dynamics, competitive intensity, etc.)
  • Customer analysis (segmentation, customer journeys)
  • Internal analysis (capabilities, business model review, financial assessment)
• An ability to multi-task effectively and balance time between project delivery and business development support effectively
• Good client management skills, including an understanding of how to communicate with clients of different backgrounds and opinions
• Proven experience of coaching junior team members
• Evidence of contributing to the wider team and leading on business development opportunities
• We expect candidates to have an outstanding academic track record and have demonstrated a pattern of exceptional achievement
• Fluency in another (European) language is an asset

You’ll be joining a driven and diverse team that’s welcoming of your opinions and enables you to develop within one of the world’s leading professional organisations. With an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working requirements where appropriate and have many successful arrangements currently in place. Please apply if you have a keen interest in the work we do.

Deals

Our Deals business is an exciting, fast-paced and an ever-growing business that focuses on deals and crisis situations for our clients. Collectively, we deal with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and we provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business.

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 within Delivering Deal Value services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients achieve maximum value on their deal transactions by solving transformational and complex challenges. We focus on all operational aspects of a transaction, pre and post completion. We conduct pre deal and confirmatory due diligence, execute large scale enterprise wide integrations, and support complex divestitures and separations on a wide range of functional areas such as Information Technology, Operations, Human Capital, Health Industries, and other back office functions.

We currently have a vacancy for a Financial Services Operations and/or IT specialist to work on fast-paced and often high-profile merger and acquisition (M&A) projects, as part of our market-leading Delivering Deal Value (DDV) team. This role offers the chance to develop your career in the stimulating, challenging and supportive environment within PwC’s highly regarded consulting practice.

The DDV team consists of c.100 consultants, of which c.20 specialise in financial services. The team works closely with other areas of PwC including Strategy, Financial Due Diligence, Regulatory, Legal and Tax teams. Alongside DDV, these specialist teams enable PwC to provide clients with insights and advice throughout the M&A process.

About the role

DDV helps clients with the operational and transformational challenges arising from M&A activity, advising on transactions ranging from £50 million to over £5 billion. You will be working with businesses from a wide range of financial services sectors by providing pre and post-M&A support. Areas of work include:

• Helping clients to assess the operating environment of target businesses via operational due diligence;
• Helping clients to articulate the quality and performance of their operating environment to potential buyers;
• Analysis of costs, including cost synergies that may arise from the merger of two businesses;
• Assisting clients with planning and delivery of separation of divested businesses; and
• Working to plan and execute post-merger integration projects.

As a Senior Associate, 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.

You will be challenged to take on significant responsibility from the outset, including meeting with senior executives on high-profile engagements, and producing high-quality written reports articulating our findings to senior stakeholders. You will need to work to tight deadlines to understand and report on the operations-related opportunities, issues, costs and risks impacting the value of target businesses. Working within a dedicated project team, you will receive help, support and guidance from a senior member of the team.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Proactively assist in the management of several clients, while reporting to Managers and above
• Train and lead staff
• Establish effective working relationships directly with clients
• Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen
• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
• Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand
• Whilst primarily London based, the global nature of our work means candidates must be prepared to travel widely when required.
• Due to continued success and increasing demand for our services, DDV is seeking to enhance this team via select, high-calibre appointments.

Who we are looking for

Essential skills and experience:

• Good interpersonal skills and experience of interacting with clients or internal stakeholders
• Experience of leading project delivery teams or workstreams
• Excellent communication skills, particularly the ability to produce high-quality written reports
• Comfort around financial analysis and understanding of the key drivers of financial information
• The ability to quickly understand large amounts of information and draw out hypotheses and key messages
• Comfort around IT and operational analysis to understand business processes, their associated costs and potential issues as well as opportunities for improvement
• An ability to operate on your own initiative and to work through ambiguity, often to tight timescales
• Experience of working in a consulting role in financial services, ideally banking or insurance

Desirable skills and experience:

• Degree, MBA or accounting qualification
• Knowledge of the key issues and challenges currently facing the financial services sector
• Managing and delivering operational change projects
• Exposure to commercial negotiation

Consulting

In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients’ business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries – everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

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 within Delivering Deal Value services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients achieve maximum value on their deal transactions by solving transformational and complex challenges. We focus on all operational aspects of a transaction, pre and post completion. We conduct pre deal and confirmatory due diligence, execute large scale enterprise wide integrations, and support complex divestitures and separations on a wide range of functional areas such as Information Technology, Operations, Human Capital, Health Industries, and other back office functions.

We currently have a vacancy for a Financial Services Operations and/or IT specialist to work on fast-paced and often high-profile merger and acquisition (M&A) projects, as part of our market-leading Delivering Deal Value (DDV) team. This role offers the chance to develop your career in the stimulating, challenging and supportive environment within PwC’s highly regarded consulting practice.

The DDV team consists of c.100 consultants, of which c.20 specialise in financial services. The team works closely with other areas of PwC including Strategy, Financial Due Diligence, Regulatory, Legal and Tax teams. Alongside DDV, these specialist teams enable PwC to provide clients with insights and advice throughout the M&A process.

About the role

DDV helps clients with the operational and transformational challenges arising from M&A activity, advising on transactions ranging from £50 million to over £5 billion. You will be working with businesses from a wide range of financial services sectors by providing pre and post-M&A support. Areas of work include:

• Helping clients to assess the operating environment of target businesses via operational due diligence;
• Helping clients to articulate the quality and performance of their operating environment to potential buyers;
• Analysis of costs, including cost synergies that may arise from the merger of two businesses;
• Assisting clients with planning and delivery of separation of divested businesses; and
• Working to plan and execute post-merger integration projects.

As a Senior Associate, 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.

You will be challenged to take on significant responsibility from the outset, including meeting with senior executives on high-profile engagements, and producing high-quality written reports articulating our findings to senior stakeholders. You will need to work to tight deadlines to understand and report on the operations-related opportunities, issues, costs and risks impacting the value of target businesses. Working within a dedicated project team, you will receive help, support and guidance from a senior member of the team.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Proactively assist in the management of several clients, while reporting to Managers and above
• Train and lead staff
• Establish effective working relationships directly with clients
• Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen
• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
• Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand
• Whilst primarily London based, the global nature of our work means candidates must be prepared to travel widely when required.
• Due to continued success and increasing demand for our services, DDV is seeking to enhance this team via select, high-calibre appointments.

Who we are looking for

Essential skills and experience:

• Good interpersonal skills and experience of interacting with clients or internal stakeholders
• Experience of leading project delivery teams or workstreams
• Excellent communication skills, particularly the ability to produce high-quality written reports
• Comfort around financial analysis and understanding of the key drivers of financial information
• The ability to quickly understand large amounts of information and draw out hypotheses and key messages
• Comfort around IT and operational analysis to understand business processes, their associated costs and potential issues as well as opportunities for improvement
• An ability to operate on your own initiative and to work through ambiguity, often to tight timescales
• Experience of working in a consulting role in financial services, ideally banking or insurance

Desirable skills and experience:

• Degree, MBA or accounting qualification
• Knowledge of the key issues and challenges currently facing the financial services sector
• Managing and delivering operational change projects
• Exposure to commercial negotiation

Consulting

In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients’ business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries – everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

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 Assurance Transformation Centre of Excellence practice, within Assurance Transformation Services, will provide you with the opportunity to be responsible for developing functions in PwC that support audit engagement teams and audit quality efforts. You’ll focus on enhancing our services related to data auditing, business analytics, visualisation and leveraging of analytic technologies to evaluating complex Enterprise Systems for audit and non audit services.

As part of our team, you’ll work with a broad and diverse range of clients, providing you with exposure to businesses of varying sizes, industries and complexity. You’ll use cutting edge technology working virtually on various audit engagements. You’ll develop specialist Assurance knowledge and play a key role in improving the quality and efficiency of our audits and lead innovation in a range of areas, with an initial focus on pensions assets and liabilities, share based payments, and the audit of Tax.

We’ve all experienced the impact of extraordinary technological change over recent years. All of our clients are impacted by digital advancements, and so our propositions need to respond to that. We’re also seeing that our clients are changing how they work; increasingly working remotely and across multiple locations. For PwC, this means designing an operating model where we’ll improve quality, deliver outstanding value to our clients, and create a better experience for our people.

PwC Assurance Centres of Excellence (CoEs) are one of our key priorities to respond to this challenge.

As part of the Assurance CoE you will utilise cutting edge technology to execute delivery of more complex and judgmental Assurance activities virtually. Working closely with PwC Assurance teams from across the country you will improve the quality, efficiency, and innovation in the more complex areas of the audit, and have exposure to a wide range of clients from FTSE 100 to owner managed businesses across a variety of industries. The work is location agnostic with the majority of work being office based, and as such we are looking for individuals to be based in any regional UK office (with a nucleus of individuals in our Manchester and Glasgow offices).

We currently have a range of opportunities available in the areas of:

• Auditing of Pensions balances; and / or
• Auditing of Share Based Payments; and / or
• Audit of Tax

The list of areas delivered by the CoE is expected to grow rapidly, in line with the firm’s strategy, over the next 5 years. Which will create opportunities to experience new areas of the audit, to build expertise in more than one technical area and to support the growth and development of this part of our business. The Assurance CoE will provide initial training and ongoing coaching and support on the technical areas you are assigned to through weekly lunch and learns, professional skills courses, and activity leaders who act as coaches for the team.

Responsibilities

In this position you will have a key management role on Assurance assignments where you will utilise and further develop your knowledge and skills. As a Manager within the Assurance CoE you will:

• Have flexibility in when and how you work, utilising technology and best practice virtual working to coach and interact with teams of clients remotely
• Develop strong relationships with audit clients and internal contacts for an assigned portfolio
• Play a critical role in ensuring the quality of delivery of these more complex areas, in line with technical (both accounting and auditing) requirements and operating procedures
• Be responsible for a team of individuals, providing coaching and ongoing support to ensure high quality delivery
• Provide audit and business advice to a variety of clients
• Work and liaise with other members of the audit team and colleagues in other parts of the firm as necessary to provide a high quality client service
• Utilise your strong business awareness and sound reporting skills to provide valuable insights to clients
• Have the chance to give back to community and social welfare projects, often using your business skills
• Have access to internal mobility both nationally and internationally

As part of an Assurance CoE you will make a difference by:

• Developing deep, respected specialisms in more complex areas, enabling you to perform roles earlier in your career than is typically possible
• Working with (and becoming) brilliant, high performing experts in their field
• Driving innovation and thought leadership
• Helping drive PwC Assurance strategy, by shaping a critical element of our delivery model

Successful candidates will have

• Qualified accountant status (ACA or ACCA)
• A drive and aptitude to build deep accounting and auditing specialisms in more complex areas.
• A willingness to drive change by
  • helping further define the CoE model
  • embracing virtual working and other technology
  • defining and leveraging our virtual working practices of the future
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, at all levels.
• Strong influencing skills.
• An ability to work under own initiative, and under pressure.
• A willingness to build relationships with other PwC specialists to better provide a high quality, efficient and robust service
• A desire to challenge the status quo
• Demonstrable experience of managing multiple engagements
• Demonstrable experience of coaching junior members of teams to develop both technical and professional skills
• Experience in applying professional skills in the audit of pension balances or share based payments is highly desirable, but a demonstrable experience of learning new and complex technical areas is more important

This role offers the potential for flexible working. It is expected, at most, only very minimal travel will be required with the vast majority of interactions (with clients and core engagement teams) being virtual in nature.

Audit

The passion of our people, combined with access to the latest technology, helps us deliver the highest quality audits and build trust in society. We pride ourselves on our global reputation as a trusted place to do business, we are inclusive and work together to put the team first. We role model and empower challenge and are open challenge ourselves. We take pride in audit as a deep specialism and give our people access to the best opportunities and lots of variety through secondments and international assignments. 

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 Assurance Transformation Centre of Excellence practice, within Assurance Transformation Services, will provide you with the opportunity to be responsible for developing functions in PwC that support audit engagement teams and audit quality efforts. You’ll focus on enhancing our services related to data auditing, business analytics, visualisation and leveraging of analytic technologies to evaluating complex Enterprise Systems for audit and non audit services.

As part of our team, you’ll work with a broad and diverse range of clients, providing you with exposure to businesses of varying sizes, industries and complexity. You’ll use cutting edge technology working virtually on various audit engagements. You’ll develop specialist Assurance knowledge and play a key role in improving the quality and efficiency of our audits and lead innovation in a range of areas, with an initial focus on pensions assets and liabilities, share based payments, and the audit of Tax.

We’ve all experienced the impact of extraordinary technological change over recent years. All of our clients are impacted by digital advancements, and so our propositions need to respond to that. We’re also seeing that our clients are changing how they work; increasingly working remotely and across multiple locations. For PwC, this means designing an operating model where we’ll improve quality, deliver outstanding value to our clients, and create a better experience for our people.

PwC Assurance Centres of Excellence (CoEs) are one of our key priorities to respond to this challenge.

As part of the Assurance CoE you will utilise cutting edge technology to execute delivery of more complex and judgmental Assurance activities virtually. Working closely with PwC Assurance teams from across the country you will improve the quality, efficiency, and innovation in the more complex areas of the audit, and have exposure to a wide range of clients from FTSE 100 to owner managed businesses across a variety of industries. The work is location agnostic with the majority of work being office based, and as such we are looking for individuals to be based in any regional UK office (with a nucleus of individuals in our Manchester and Glasgow offices).

We currently have a range of opportunities available in the areas of:

• Auditing of Pensions balances; and / or
• Auditing of Share Based Payments; and / or
• Audit of Tax

The list of areas delivered by the CoE is expected to grow rapidly, in line with the firm’s strategy, over the next 5 years. Which will create opportunities to experience new areas of the audit, to build expertise in more than one technical area and to support the growth and development of this part of our business. The Assurance CoE will provide initial training and ongoing coaching and support on the technical areas you are assigned to through weekly lunch and learns, professional skills courses, and activity leaders who act as coaches for the team.

Responsibilities

In this position you will have a key management role on Assurance assignments where you will utilise and further develop your knowledge and skills. As a Manager within the Assurance CoE you will:

• Have flexibility in when and how you work, utilising technology and best practice virtual working to coach and interact with teams of clients remotely
• Develop strong relationships with audit clients and internal contacts for an assigned portfolio
• Play a critical role in ensuring the quality of delivery of these more complex areas, in line with technical (both accounting and auditing) requirements and operating procedures
• Be responsible for a team of individuals, providing coaching and ongoing support to ensure high quality delivery
• Provide audit and business advice to a variety of clients
• Work and liaise with other members of the audit team and colleagues in other parts of the firm as necessary to provide a high quality client service
• Utilise your strong business awareness and sound reporting skills to provide valuable insights to clients
• Have the chance to give back to community and social welfare projects, often using your business skills
• Have access to internal mobility both nationally and internationally

As part of an Assurance CoE you will make a difference by:

• Developing deep, respected specialisms in more complex areas, enabling you to perform roles earlier in your career than is typically possible
• Working with (and becoming) brilliant, high performing experts in their field
• Driving innovation and thought leadership
• Helping drive PwC Assurance strategy, by shaping a critical element of our delivery model

Successful candidates will have

• Qualified accountant status (ACA or ACCA)
• A drive and aptitude to build deep accounting and auditing specialisms in more complex areas.
• A willingness to drive change by
  • helping further define the CoE model
  • embracing virtual working and other technology
  • defining and leveraging our virtual working practices of the future
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, at all levels.
• Strong influencing skills.
• An ability to work under own initiative, and under pressure.
• A willingness to build relationships with other PwC specialists to better provide a high quality, efficient and robust service
• A desire to challenge the status quo
• Demonstrable experience of managing multiple engagements
• Demonstrable experience of coaching junior members of teams to develop both technical and professional skills
• Experience in applying professional skills in the audit of pension balances or share based payments is highly desirable, but a demonstrable experience of learning new and complex technical areas is more important

This role offers the potential for flexible working. It is expected, at most, only very minimal travel will be required with the vast majority of interactions (with clients and core engagement teams) being virtual in nature.

Audit

The passion of our people, combined with access to the latest technology, helps us deliver the highest quality audits and build trust in society. We pride ourselves on our global reputation as a trusted place to do business, we are inclusive and work together to put the team first. We role model and empower challenge and are open challenge ourselves. We take pride in audit as a deep specialism and give our people access to the best opportunities and lots of variety through secondments and international assignments. 

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.

Who We Are

We're the leading UK provider of tax services in terms of the reputation, size and scope of our practice. The work we do is diverse and our clients span a range of industries, from multinational organisations, to entrepreneurs and family businesses.

Our goal is to provide a technology enabled service you can be a part of, working alongside people with experience in developing solutions for our clients.

Our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. It’s this focus that influence the services we provide and decisions we make.

We seek to attract the best people from a diverse talent pool and encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. This is what makes us a strong organisation with an increasingly agile workforce which is why we’ve introduced Everyday Flexibility, encouraging you to balance work and life. ‘Dress for your Day’ lets you choose what you feel is appropriate to wear for each working day.

The Opportunity

PwC are the market leaders in VAT advisory services, providing services to many of the firm’s largest and most important clients. Our business in the South East has doubled in size over the last 3 years and we are looking to continue that strong growth with talented and driven indirect tax professionals.

You will have a great opportunity to build your career as an indirect tax specialist in a fast growing business and in a region that is a national growth priority for PwC. You will work with a wide range of clients across all business sectors and have responsibility to lead relationships with those clients. You will be given immediate responsibility for a client portfolio and have the opportunity to play a key part in the leadership of the business.

This role provides the successful candidate with an unparalleled opportunity to develop their career, to build global VAT technical skills and the experience of working on complex and challenging assignments. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to being -

• Building relationships with our clients;
• Delivery of the highest quality advice to clients;
• Managing a team and helping develop others in the team;
• Liaising with the global PwC network;
• Keeping up to date with legislation and practical changes which impact VAT;

Essential skills and experience

• Excellent VAT technical skills
• Strong organisational and interpersonal skills
• Good self-organisational skills
• Energy and enthusiasm
• Ambition and a strong desire to succeed
• A commitment to team working
• A commitment to delivering great client service
• Good communication skills, written and oral
• Strong project management skills and the ability to prioritise tasks
• Ability to work flexibly in a regional team and through virtual networks
• Able to apply good judgement, consult appropriately and manage risks
• Resilient, able to work to deadlines
• Encouraging and motivational to junior staff
• Strong analytical skills in terms of understanding the interaction of processes, technologies and people
• An interest in technology and the benefits that it can bring in terms of efficiency, control and informational capabilities
• The candidate will also have an interest in technology and an awareness of the way in which data and digital solutions are shaping the market as we are a technology enabled business and are leveraging technology solutions
• in a number of new and innovative ways to deliver services efficiently for our clients.
• We understand that applicants may not feel comfortable in applying for a role unless they fully meet the requirements as advertised. We want to encourage people to apply who may not fully meet the requirements but still have relevant skills and experience to fulfil the role.

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.

Who We Are

We're the leading UK provider of tax services in terms of the reputation, size and scope of our practice. The work we do is diverse and our clients span a range of industries, from multinational organisations, to entrepreneurs and family businesses.

Our goal is to provide a technology enabled service you can be a part of, working alongside people with experience in developing solutions for our clients.

Our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. It’s this focus that influence the services we provide and decisions we make.

We seek to attract the best people from a diverse talent pool and encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. This is what makes us a strong organisation with an increasingly agile workforce which is why we’ve introduced Everyday Flexibility, encouraging you to balance work and life. ‘Dress for your Day’ lets you choose what you feel is appropriate to wear for each working day.

The Opportunity

PwC are the market leaders in VAT advisory services, providing services to many of the firm’s largest and most important clients. Our business in the South East has doubled in size over the last 3 years and we are looking to continue that strong growth with talented and driven indirect tax professionals.

You will have a great opportunity to build your career as an indirect tax specialist in a fast growing business and in a region that is a national growth priority for PwC. You will work with a wide range of clients across all business sectors and have responsibility to lead relationships with those clients. You will be given immediate responsibility for a client portfolio and have the opportunity to play a key part in the leadership of the business.

This role provides the successful candidate with an unparalleled opportunity to develop their career, to build global VAT technical skills and the experience of working on complex and challenging assignments. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to being -

• Building relationships with our clients;
• Delivery of the highest quality advice to clients;
• Managing a team and helping develop others in the team;
• Liaising with the global PwC network;
• Keeping up to date with legislation and practical changes which impact VAT;

Essential skills and experience

• Excellent VAT technical skills
• Strong organisational and interpersonal skills
• Good self-organisational skills
• Energy and enthusiasm
• Ambition and a strong desire to succeed
• A commitment to team working
• A commitment to delivering great client service
• Good communication skills, written and oral
• Strong project management skills and the ability to prioritise tasks
• Ability to work flexibly in a regional team and through virtual networks
• Able to apply good judgement, consult appropriately and manage risks
• Resilient, able to work to deadlines
• Encouraging and motivational to junior staff
• Strong analytical skills in terms of understanding the interaction of processes, technologies and people
• An interest in technology and the benefits that it can bring in terms of efficiency, control and informational capabilities
• The candidate will also have an interest in technology and an awareness of the way in which data and digital solutions are shaping the market as we are a technology enabled business and are leveraging technology solutions
• in a number of new and innovative ways to deliver services efficiently for our clients.
• We understand that applicants may not feel comfortable in applying for a role unless they fully meet the requirements as advertised. We want to encourage people to apply who may not fully meet the requirements but still have relevant skills and experience to fulfil the role.

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.