Digital Strategy Consultant at PwC South Africa

About the Job

• Strategy&, PwC’s global strategy consulting business, has an exciting opportunity available for a Digital Strategy Consultant that will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities.
• The digital era is driving demand for more efficient, faster and better national payment systems, with many countries looking to transform and modernise their payment systems. South Africa is striving towards a payments future that promotes financial inclusion, reduces costs and helps stimulate the economy. To realise this, the country’s payment platforms will have to evolve from commoditised propositions into strategic solutions that complement and add value to people’s lives. PwC supports clients on this journey. 
• We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.
• We are one of the top three strategy consultancies globally, bringing the very best strategic thinking to help clients solve their toughest problems, and build the differentiating capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. In joining, you’ll help develop strategies that translate into action and help our clients power ahead in fiercely competitive global markets.
• Strategy& has several distinct characteristics,  including a unique career track, a world-class and globally defined training curriculum, structured mentorship programmes, and leading people processes. 
• When you join Strategy&, you join a global team with a proud heritage of pioneering ideas and through leadership. Strategy& focuses on the development of high impact and pragmatic strategies to solve complex problems and maximise market potential and differentiation. This is achieved through leveraging and strengthening core capabilities within the business and driving sustainable shareholder/stakeholder value and bottom line and impact. Our strategies incorporate detailed analytics, global and local leading practices and case studies, innovation, industry and domain SMEs, design business architecture and design of  journey.

Requirements:

• Post graduate degree from a top tier University in Engineering, Information Systems or Computer Science
• Master's degree or MBA is highly advantageous
• Minimum 4-5 years’ relevant experience within a strategy firm with specific experience in Digital Strategy.
• Experience in proposing digital initiatives.

Responsibilities:

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 Managers, Senior Managers and above:
• Drive each assignment through to its natural conclusion
• Direct the quantitative analysis, assess the depth required for each assignment, translate the analysis into useful findings and quality assure the results
• Direct the source and level of data gathering necessary and judge the necessity of client interviews and the strategic content of those interviews
• Knowledge of modeling and financial performance
• Support clients to implement organisational change through various types of client engagement and use of change management processes
• Manage clients’, internal leadership and other relevant stakeholder’s relationships.
• Manage work steam risks, governance and project administration (including project profitability, scope and timelines)
• Apply logical and creative thinking to drive fact-based insights
• Demonstrate strong leadership and influence management skills, including the ability to challenge the status quo
• Ability to work independently while simultaneously being able to forge productive team relationships
• Build project deliverables in partnership with project leaders and do quality assurance on the junior team members’ deliverables
• Maintain an external mind-set, including staying on top of consumer, competitive, and macroeconomic / geopolitical trends
• Contribute to capability building for the Strategy& function (e.g. Recruiting, Training, Knowledge Management, etc.)
• 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

Additional skill requirements:

• Business-level fluency in English
• Work cross functionally with PwC competencies in a seamless and cohesive manner
• Be culturally and diversity aware and supportive of our South African and African contexts
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with all levels of management
• Drive projects effectively in a cross-functional environment, including an ability to motivate and focus people and resources
• Mastery in creating PowerPoint presentations, storylines, and executive summaries for external and internal stakeholders
• Excellent technical skills to process large quantities of data in an error-free manner
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills to facilitate interaction across hierarchies and functions
• Consider both client and financial implications when making decisions
• Understand the broader service offerings to enable identification of business opportunities
• Contribute to shaping proposals and propositions across countries, functions, sectors and accounts
• Adhere to and promote quality and risk management standards
• Display excellent project management skills to deliver high quality work on time and to budget
• Review reports and analyses to be in line with client expectations and requirements