Jobs at PwC South Africa

• Your key responsibilities will be to use strategic business consulting skills, to work with clients through all stages of strategy-based transformation projects. 
• You will provide support in the consultation with clients to identify, clarify, and resolve complex issues critical to clients' strategic and operating success.
• Primary requirements will include developing insights, conducting independent analysis, and developing hypothesis-based recommendations as part of the development of client specific transformational strategies.
• You will be expected to develop conclusions and recommendations, write reports, assist in client presentations and provide implementation assistance as required. 

Key Attributes

• Comfortable delivering both formal & informal presentations both internally & externally.
• Strong written report skills are essential
• Ability to build strong relationships at all levels of the organisation (client and internal), establishing your credibility and gaining trust 
• Flexibility and commercialism to manage a diverse range of responsibilities in a dynamic & results oriented environment.
• Ability to work in teams in a strategic consulting environment as well as autonomously
• Excellent communication skills

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree from a top tier university and MBA from a top tier institution/ leading business school
• Foreign language skills and international work experience are an advantage

Characteristics

• Self-motivated and capable of developing innovative approaches to difficult issues
• Highly analytical and structured thinking (hypotheses-based analysis)
• Excellent quantitative skills and highly levels of attention to detail
• Flexibility in adjusting to highly varied projects and environments
• Resilience and ability to adapt in unfamiliar industries and functions 
• Good interpersonal skills, and ability to work in a team environment,
• High energy level

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A career in our Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, 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. 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.

As a member of the team, you’ll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. In joining, you’ll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Information Technology with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems.
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 an authentic and inclusive leader, at all grades/levels and in all lines of service. 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 Manager, 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:

• Pursue opportunities to develop existing and new skills outside of comfort zone.
• Act to resolve issues which prevent effective team working, even during times of change and uncertainty.
• Coach others and encourage them to take ownership of their development.
• Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
• Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.
• Develop a perspective on key global trends, including globalisation, and how they impact the firm and our clients.
• Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
• Focus on building trusted relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.