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Job Description & Summary
At PwC, our people in deals focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. They help clients navigate complex transactions and maximise value in their business deals.
In transaction services at PwC, you will provide strategic advice and support to clients in their mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. Your work will include conducting due diligence, financial analysis, and managing the transaction process.
Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
- Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
- Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
- Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
- Effectively mentor others.
- Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
- Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
- Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm’s code of conduct, and independence requirements.
Role Summary:
In PwC Transaction Services South Africa (TS), we support a wide range of clients including corporate clients, private equity firms and investment funds on merger, acquisition and divestiture transactions throughout the lifecycle of the deal. We work on both buy-side and sell-side transactions, where our people develop specialist sector and due diligence experience. We have an excellent reputation of bringing deep industry expertise and actionable insights through analysis and deals experience.
Qualifications / Certifications required:
· CA (SA)
Skills and experience required:
- Good experience with Alteryx, PowerBI and other data analytics and visualisation tools, as well as Excel
- Excellent financial analytical skills and commercial awareness
- Excellent report writing skills
- Adhere to and promote quality and risk management standards
- Good understanding of IFRS and accounting standards
- Excellent communication skills
- Good interpersonal and client relationship skills
- A well-organised and self-directed individual who can relate to people at all levels of an organisation
- Proven ability to multitask and ensure effective delivery of the priorities to meet targets and objectives
- A proactive and energetic team player, who works effectively under pressure and can deal with a dynamic work environment
- An interest in and knowledge of the financial markets
- Industry experience in any of the following is advantageous: Retail, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Insurance, Banking, Renewable Energy, Fintech, Banking and Capital Markets, Mining, Utilities, Energy, Industrial Products, Logistics, Transport, Consumer, Leisure, Technology, Telecommunications, Media, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Real Estate, Facilities Management.
Responsibilities of role:
- Perform and prepare financial analysis from structured and unstructured data sets using data tools
- Extract key commercial and deal insights from financial and non-financial data
- Identify key drivers of a business and potential deal breakers (financial and non-financial)
- Write succinct, well-structured reports
- Perform risk management activities
- Effectively lead meetings with clients and senior personnel
Travel Requirements
Up to 20%
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
No
