Advisory - Deals Strategy - OR IT - Manager

Overview

At PwC, our people in deals focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. They help clients navigate complex transactions and maximise value in their business deals. Those in deal strategy at PwC will focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. Your work will involve analysing market trends, assessing business opportunities, and developing strategic frameworks to guide clients in making informed decisions regarding their deals. You will help clients navigate complex transactions, identify potential risks and opportunities, and develop strategies to maximise value and achieve their business objectives. Working in this area, you will play a crucial role in assisting clients in formulating and executing effective strategies to optimise outcomes in their deal-making processes.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.
  
  

We are expanding our team to support the increasing demand from our clients across a broad range of sectors to transform their IT function. As well as working with a wide range of clients, you will also work with leading practitioners across the Deals, Strategy & and Consulting practice within the Firm.

Responsibilities

As a Manager in the team, you will be responsible for building proposition material and supporting with the implementation and rapid change delivery for our clients. Your responsibilities will include:

• Helping management develop and implement a turnaround or transformation programme
• Support analysis of IT costs, operations and governance to quantify value creation opportunities and Transformation journeys with supporting business cases
• Strong passionate for Technology, especially Cloud, and a demonstrable understanding of the new technologies and ways of working (e.g. Agile, DevOps, DevSecOps, IaC)
• Assimilating complex information to formulate a structured and pragmatic restructuring strategy best suited to the clients’ strategic challenges and cost agenda.
• Support development of cost savings strategies into a practical and fit for purpose implementation plan for clients, articulating clearly quick wins and longer structural cost transformation initiatives.
• Preparing presentations and/or reports to key stakeholders (e.g. Board, senior management).
• Taking responsibility for leading junior members of the team where required including coaching and upskilling of junior team members.
• Actively managing project economics and overall programme governance.
  
  

You will also be expected to actively contribute to the development of our team by:

• Supporting with marketing and business development initiatives (both internally and externally) to continuously develop our position in the market.
• Managing a diverse and inclusive team.
• Coaching and acting as a role model for the junior members of the team.
  
  

We are looking for candidates with the experience of supporting clients throughout the operational transformation lifecycle from strategic opportunity assessment and planning through to supporting the delivery of specific initiatives.

These candidates will have experience in IT and have the following capabilities:

• Previous experience in cost-based transformation in Technology gained either from large multinationals or consulting/advisory roles
• Proficient understanding of the Technology stack, the Technology function Operating Model and IT allocations processes
• Experience of delivering operational change in IT
• Experience in public cloud (AWS and Azure preferred)
• Understanding of how technology can enable business objectives
• Experience of managing stakeholders
• Ability to manage ambiguity or conflicting priorities.
• High impact communication in the written and verbal form with extensive experience of development of power point presentations to synthesise analysis and communicate key conclusions.