Senior Associate

PwC Acceleration Centre
Strategy& (Deals)
Senior Associate Job Description
Job Position:
Senior Associate Strategy&, Deals, PwC Acceleration Centre (pan-India, headquartered in Kolkata)
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 UK Advisory Kolkata Acceleration Centre (KAC) is a natural extension of our United Kingdom based
consulting capabilities, providing support to a broad range of practice teams. Our UK-owned ACs are fully
integrated into our client-facing teams and are key to PwCs success in the marketplace.
Job Overview:
This position is for a Senior Associate to be part of a fast-growing Strategy& practice within our Advisory
Acceleration Centre.
Strategy& (S&) is our global strategy consulting business. It is a specialist team within PwC that
combines strategy consulting capabilities with leading industry and sector insights and know-how. The
team helps clients identify and build the capabilities essential to their advantage, and develop strategies
based on these capabilities.
S& serves four main go-to-market channels: Deal Execution (M&A), Post-Deal Value Creation, Portfolio
Companies, Corporate and Public Sector Clients (non-deals) across industries (including Technology,
Media, Telco, Consumer Products, Retail, Industrials, Professional Services, Energy, Financial Services,
Healthcare, Pharma).
The Deals channel is the largest channel for our UK team. Our work shapes the M&A landscape by
supporting private equity (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 PE clients with over 2.5 trillion in assets under management, and publicly traded companies
with a combined market capitalisation of over 4 trillion. From initial investment strategy development to
commercial due diligence, value creation post-close and exit, were here to help our clients drive growth.
The S& Acceleration Centre in India is a specialist team within our broader PwC Kolkata Acceleration
Centre that plays a critical role working with the UK team in project preparation and executing, including
all responsibilities typically required of a UK-based team member from Experienced Associate to
Manager. This includes analysis, research, output creation, presentation and discussion.
Responsibilities include:


Help create and review delivery modules such as competition benchmarking, survey analysis,
website scraping, customer and financial analysis, slide creation, industry research, knowledge
management, and more
Drive day-to-day deliverables within the KAC team by helping in work-planning, problem
solving, hypotheses generation and research tools, including reviewing your work and that of
others for quality, accuracy, and relevance



Work closely with the UK S& team to fully support client engagements
Assist with KAC team onboarding and training programmes
Contribute to the development of your own and teams technical and functional acumen
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PwC Acceleration Centre
Strategy& (Deals)

Demonstrate critical thinking, an ability to bring order to unstructured problems, and excellent
commercial acumen


Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results
Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct
Other areas:

Contribute to practice enablement and business development activities (proposal responses, client
interactions, workshop preparation, etc.)


Learning new tools and technologies including generative AI (genAI) as required
Develop/implement automation solutions and capabilities that are aligned to clients
business requirements

Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and explain reasons for
this choice



Develop internal relationships to build trust in an effort to develop and market the KAC brand
Keep up to date with local and global business and economic issues
Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness, personal strengths and address
development areas

Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with
others


Provide others with examples of prior problem solving to help guide team members
Staying in the loop and on top of the latest M&A trends
Desired Experience and Skills:




4 to 7 years of industry experience with an emphasis on consulting services and project
delivery
Relevant experience in private equity, commercial due diligence, target screening
and / or M&A advisory is an asset
Ability to understand, contextualise, and solve commercial problems through
independent analysis and research
Ability to work as an integrated team member with the UK team in delivering client
work, and to effectively take ownership and work on projects under stringent timelines
while working both independently and in a team environment

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


Ability to utilise project management skills to time-manage tasks
Experience in creating clear and concise reports, including graphics and data visualisation
and commentary for clients, and clearly presenting findings to others



Relevant experience in conducting primary research (including desktop research, surveys and
web scraping) and secondary research required
Relevant experience in analysis of complex data (e.g. survey outputs, financial statements,
business plans) required
Relevant experience in creating client-ready deliverables including PowerPoint slides and
reports required
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Strategy& (Deals)


Experience in using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint is required, and experience with data
visualisation tools like Power BI and other similar tools is an asset
Multi-tasking and balancing time effectively, keeping a rapid pace without sacrificing quality
Desired Soft Skills:


Strong work ethic, proactive and professional behaviour
Strategic and creative thinker, problem solver
Educational Background:


MBA from premier B-Schools (preferred)
Strong academic credentials, analytical ability and leadership skills
Additional Information:




Time type: Full time
Work timings: Work hours may vary for specific projects
Travel requirements: None
Past experience: Past experience in consulting and exposure to a multinational environment will
be an added bonus.
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