Associate Consultant: Business Transformation at PwC South Africa

Job Overview: 

• This position is for an Associate to be part of a fast-growing Strategy& practice within our Advisory team. 
• 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& South Africa serves 2 main go-to-market channels: Corporate and Public Sector Clients (strategy advisory), focussing on but not limited to the following industries; Mining, Financial Services, Professional Services. 
• You’ll focus on the key strategic issues businesses face and work on challenging and varied assignments – from helping a company identify attractive new markets, identifying opportunity for optimisation, advising a client on game-changing investments, to helping industry leaders solve their toughest organisational challenges.  
• The S& team in South Africa that plays a critical role in PwC in project sales and execution. This includes analysis, research, output creation, delivery, presentation and discussion. 

Responsibilities include: 

• Work in a team setting on strategy consulting work, including projects and delivery modules such as market analysis, competition benchmarking, survey analysis, website scraping, customer and financial analysis, slide creation, industry research, knowledge management, and more 
• 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 and functional acumen 
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct 

Other areas: 

• Contribute to practice enablement and business development activities 
• Learning new tools and technologies including generative AI (genAI) as required 
• Develop/implement automation solutions and capabilities that are aligned to clients’ business requirements 
• Develop internal relationships to build trust in Strategy& and Fit for Growth  
• Keep up to date with local and global business and economic issues 

Desired Experience and Skills: 

• We’ll expect you to have an entrepreneurial mind, challenge conventional assumptions and spark thoughtful debate. This is one of the best ways we know to come up with fresher, smarter answers to our clients’ toughest problems. 
• Our Associates join us from a range of academic backgrounds. Associates will typically have c.0 to 3 years of industry experience 
• You’ll need an excellent ability to understand, contextualise, and solve commercial problems through independent analysis and research 
• Ability to work as an integrated team member with the teams delivering client work 
• Effective written and excellent verbal business communication skills when interacting with team members and/or clients in a professional setting 
• Multi-tasking and balancing time effectively, keeping a rapid pace without sacrificing quality 
• Exposure to conducting primary research (including desktop research, surveys and web scraping) and secondary research is an asset 
• Relevant experience in analysis of complex data (e.g. survey outputs, financial statements, business plans) is an asset 
• Relevant exposure to creating client-ready deliverables including PowerPoint slides and reports is an asset 
• Experience in using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint is required, and experience with data visualisation tools like Power BI and other similar tools is an asset 

Desired Soft Skills: 

• Strong work ethic, proactive and professional behaviour 
• Strategic and creative thinker, problem solver 

Educational Background: 

• Strong academic credentials from premier university, analytical ability and leadership skills 

Additional Information: 

• Time type: Full time 
• Work timings: Work hours may vary for specific projects 
• Travel requirements: As per client requirement  

Deadline:19th June,2025