SATIC: Project Manager - Real Estate Risk at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

• We are looking for candidates who bring in-depth market experience, fused with outstanding technical capabilities, who want to be a part of a community of solvers to tackle the biggest challenges in society.
• If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you. By choosing to join the SATIC team, you are choosing to work with teams all over the world, harnessing the power of world leading tech, and making a difference to real people’s lives.
• We are building one of the most innovative and exciting capabilities in the real estate tax industry. Taking the very best of our market leading approaches relating to business analysis, operating model design, change management, project management, and transformation implementation. We believe that taking a detailed approach to transformation has the power to unlock the biggest opportunities our clients have, to improve efficiency and effectiveness, and ensure they deliver the outcomes required for the people and places they serve.
• We are passionate about the work we do and the difference we make. We thrive when we are tackling some of the most complex problems our clients must contend with, and in turn helping to address some of the most pressing issues facing the world today.
• We are a highly motivated, capable, collaborative, diverse, and caring team. We have grown significantly in recent years and have welcomed a wealth of talented individuals to the organization. However, we have bold ambitions and see an even greater opportunity in the market. We are looking for more brilliant people to join our brilliant team.

Summary:

• The role will consist of being the central coordination contact for onboarding aspects between client engagement teams and the client onboarding function, facilitating swift progress and monitoring (via a tracker) of all onboarding checks.

Qualifications / Certifications Required:

• NQF Level 7 and above (ZA)
• At least 2 years’ experience within consulting, or an industry business analysis/ operating model/ strategy/ fund, project, or program management role.
• Ideally an industry recognized project or program management qualification (e.g., Prince2 / MSP etc.).

Experience Required:

• Experience of supporting delivery of transformation programmes. Experience in project and program management ideally in a change or transformation environment including such capabilities in planning, scheduling, and RAID management.
• Experience in transformation communications & stakeholder management, and engagement change monitoring.
• Experience in interpreting clients’ strategic, operational, and external drivers for change into coherent and logic recommendations.
• Experience in creating high quality visual outputs to communicate status, progress, business analysis outputs, and recommendations to clients.

Responsibilities Of Role:

As a Senior Associate within our Real Estate Deals Tax team, you will work as part of a team of specialists with extensive tax and Real Estate industry experience to support delivery of projects that help resolve complex risk issues and deliver client specific transformation. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Help us to deliver our firmwide purpose of building trust in society and solving important problems.
• Support the design and delivery of iconic, technology-enabled risk programmes for some of the largest global Real Estate investment clients.
• Developing the tools and techniques that will help transform the current client onboarding processes.
• Support a safe delivery of risk engagements through project or program management techniques incl. progress monitoring, implementation planning, finance monitoring, and communication & stakeholder management.
• Be innovative, take calculated risks, push yourself, and resist the temptation to take the easy option.
• Be an ambassador for the PwC brand and help us further develop our reputation in the UK and overseas.

Desirable Skill Sets Include:

• Understanding transformation opportunities in the wider risk and onboarding sector and what the general factors to be considered while conducting transformation programmes.
• Awareness of how such programmes need to leverage technology and an understanding of different approaches to transformation.
• Experience in developing requirements across processes, people, organization, operations, and technology and information.
• Ability to articulate the business benefits of risk transformations and articulate the case for change.
• Practical and output focused approach and a desire to make a difference.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to create client recommendations and outputs with concise, clear, and coherent messaging.

Role Related Attributes:

• The following attributes are required:
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proactive approach and a self-starter attitude.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Strong customer service orientation and relationship building skills.
• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language.
• Keen attention to detail.