Solutions Consultant - Mining Technology (Talent Pool) at PwC South Africa

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Associate, 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 several clients, while reporting to Managers and above
• Train and lead staff
• Establish effective working relationships directly with clients
• Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen
• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients 
• Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand
   

Purpose of Job

• Solutions consultant involved in business consulting and transformation, process related work, application of technology to solve business challenges.

Key Outputs
Delivery

• Document client requirements, business environment, people capabilities and technology architectures
• Performs research into client environments and industry solutions and tools
• Understand and interpret business requirements
• Actively participate during project delivery
• Think independently and creatively when formulating solutions
• Fulfil various project assignments as required
• Participate in the design and delivery of end-to-end business solutions which are enabled by technology
• Develop a working knowledge of current technologies and their applications within a business context
• Develop architectural capabilities across business and technology architectures
• Support project management activities
• Maintaining and developing technology transformation skills
   

Sales

• Conceive innovative solutions for clients
• Identify opportunities for improvement within clients businesses
• Support business development initiatives
   

Relationships

• Be able to build and sustain professional relationships both within PwC and externally
• Actively collaborate with colleagues in solving challenges

Preferred skills
Delivery

• Have a basic understanding of project management tools and techniques
• Have a working understanding of mining technical systems
• ICT used in exploration mining and processing
• An understating of and exposure to programming and SDLC methodologies
• Manage and plan own work
• Open-minded, practical and able to solve problems
• Attention to detail and committed to quality
   

General

• Good verbal and written communication
• Sound judgment
• Innovative
• Resilient
• Cope well under tight deadlines and work well under stress
   

Relationships

• Is a team player and contributes to team success
   

Learning and growth

• Is curious – learning, sharing and innovating
• Willingness to continually learn and develop skills across a multitude of core competencies
• Approaches problem solving in a logical and structured manner with due consideration given to alternative solutions
• Able to handle complex problems and apply appropriate judgement in evaluating solution inputs
   

Experience

• 3+ years relevant project and consulting experience having worked hands on with mining systems and technology
   

Qualifications required

• BComm Informatics or equivalent

or

• BSc with majors in computer science and/or information systems. Additional business related major is an advantage

or

• BSc in Engineering with programming modules at a second year level

or

• 4 year BTech/BEng degree in computer science and/or information systems
• TOGAF qualification/certification will be highly beneficial 

Job Posting End Date
April 3, 2020