Associate - Deals Strategy (Deal Advisory/ M&A Consulting & Research)

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Associate - Deals Strategy, Deals, PwC Acceleration Center (Bangalore)

Brief Company Description:

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is a leading global consulting firm. For more than 160 years, PwC has worked to build trust in society and solve important problems for clients and the communities in which we live and work. Today we have more than 276,000 people across 157 countries working towards this goal.

The US Advisory Bangalore Acceleration Center is a natural extension of our United States based consulting capabilities, providing support to a broad range of practice teams. Our US-owned ACs are fully integrated into our client-facing teams and are key to PwC’s success in the marketplace.

Job Overview:

This position is for an Associate to be part of a fast-growing Deals Strategy practice within our Advisory Acceleration Center.

Deals Strategy (DS) is a specialist team within PwC Strategy& that shapes the M&A landscape by supporting PE and corporate clients in developing investment perspectives and value creation strategies that make a difference in the highly competitive M&A market. We serve private equity clients with over $2.5 trillion in assets under management, and publicly traded companies with a combined market capitalization of over $4 trillion. From initial investment strategy development to commercial due diligence, value creation post-close and exit, we’re here to help our clients drive growth.

Our Deals Strategy Acceleration Center (DS AC) in India is a specialist team within our broader Bangalore Acceleration Center that plays a critical role in supporting DS project teams with research, analytics and knowledge management support across industries (including Technology, Media, Healthcare, Consumer Products, Retail, Industrial Products and Energy, Oil and Gas).

Responsibilities Include:

• Work in a team setting on delivery modules such as vendor benchmarking, survey analysis, website scraping, slide creation, intellectual property within the AC.

• Ability to build solid and collaborative relationships with team members.

• Proactively assist the team in various aspects of the client engagement.

• Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen.

• Uphold the firms code of ethics and business conduct.

Other areas:

• Contribute to practice enablement and business development activities.



• Participate in initiatives to develop innovation quotient.

• Learning new tools and technologies if required. Develop/Implement automation solutions and capabilities that are aligned to clients business requirements.

• Develop internal relationships to build trust in an effort to develop and market the AC brand

• Keep up to date with local and global business and economic issues.

• Staying in the loop and on top of the latest M&A trends and developing new skills.

Desired Experience and Skills:

• 2 to 3 years of industry experience

• Data Visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI and Excel/Google Charts.

• Relevant experience in conducting primary research (including desktop research, surveys and web scraping), secondary research, analysis of complex data and client-ready deliverable creation.

• Relevant experience in private equity, commercial due diligence, target screening and / or M&A advisory preferred.

• Proven experience in using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau/ Power BI or other similar tools.

• Multi-tasking and balancing time effectively, keeping a rapid pace without sacrificing quality.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Effective written and verbal business communication skills when interacting with team members and/or clients in a professional setting.

Desired Soft Skills:

• Effective communication and storytelling skills to various audiences (written and verbal)

• Strong work ethic, proactive and professional behavior

• Strategic and creative thinker, problem solver

Educational Background:

• MBA from premier B-Schools (preferred)

• Strong academic credentials, analytical ability and leadership skills

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  Location: Bangalore/ Flexible Work Location

• Time Type: Full time

• Work Timings: Work hours may vary for specific projects

• Travel Requirements: NA

• Past Experience: Past experience in consulting or exposure to a multinational environment will be an added bonus.

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