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.

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.