M&A - Deals - AD at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary
A career within Deals Corporate Finance services, will provide you the opportunity to deliver innovative deal solutions to our clients, providing advice and support, from initiation through to deal completion. In short, we’re a part of helping some of the world’s leading companies across industries originate, create, execute, and realise value from deals. Through data driven insights we help our clients move in the right direction ensuring maximum value for their company.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Director, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Support team to disrupt, improve and evolve ways of working when necessary.
• Arrange and sponsor appropriate assignments and experiences to help people realise their potential and support their long-term aspirations.
• Identify gaps in the market and spot opportunities to create value propositions.
• Look for opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments.
• Create an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• I promote and encourage others to value difference when working in diverse teams.
• Drive and take ownership for developing connections that help deliver what is best for our people and stakeholders.
• Influence and facilitate the creation of long-term relationships which add value to the firm.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Job description

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.

This is a dedicated “insights led” role in the firm as part of the ambition to strengthen our demand generation/origination efforts and increase our relevance and impact in the marketplace. This ties directly into the new equation and “community of solvers” our objectives and has a direct focus on “re-imagining the future”, building trust in society and solving important problems as well as sharpening our market focus.

The primary focus of this role is to focus on participants in the capital markets and be pro-active and strategic in nature as opposed to a proposal writing, macro trend analysis, administration or thought leadership type role, and therefore will not compete with any other parts of the firm. We are looking for a candidate with a strong background in equity analyst activities, investment banking type roles, transactional/investment experience and a good commercial aptitude.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Proactively drive this initiative implementing our strategy, drive the development of new business opportunities in the market, and provide equity/capital markets technical advice across disciplines
• Building strong networks within the firm (industry leaders and key account holders) to spot and capitalise on opportunities to support teams across a number of different business units and sectors
• Identifying, discussing and developing key issues with our teams and clients to identify potential opportunities and sharing market intelligence
• Responsibility to shape and deliver various projects that exceed the expectations of our clients and our own assignment quality criteria
• Helping to grow and develop our team through hands on training and coaching

Skills

• Must have strong equity analyst experience and background
• Key analytical skills
• Ability to articulate complex information into relevant and well communicated presentations
• Relevant and good skills in digital tools and databases such as Capital IQ, Bloomberg, Alphasense, Equity insights and similar subscription services
• Ability to combine data from different sources into C-Suite quality messaging
• Good networking ability
• Attention to detail and quality of messaging
• Ability to train and nurture talent across the firm

Qualifications

• Qualified CA (SA)
• CFA or Bachelor of Business Science

Experience

• 10+ years similar experience

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)
Degrees/Field of Study required: