Senior Associate_Gen AI/Data Scientist_Finance Solutions

Overview

At PwC, our people in finance consulting specialise in providing consulting services related to financial management and strategy. These individuals analyse client needs, develop financial solutions, and offer guidance and support to help clients optimise their financial performance, improve decision-making, and achieve their financial goals. In financial operations at PwC, you will specialise in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of financial operations within organisations. Your work will involve assessing financial processes, identify areas for improvement, and design and implement solutions to streamline financial operations, enhance controls, and reduce costs. You will be responsible for providing guidance on financial systems implementation, process automation, and financial shared services.

What does this role entail?

The Finance Solutions team works closely with global clients and project teams to help CFOs and their organizations identify, design and implement AI-powered programs that transform their finance functions. We are looking for a Senior Associate who can bring strong technical capabilities in Generative AI and agent-based automation to deliver innovation in areas such as financial close, reconciliations, cash flow forecasting, FP&A, treasury, and reporting.

This role will suit individuals passionate about AI-first finance transformation—blending technical depth with business acumen to design next-gen digital finance solutions.

Key Responsibilities

As a team member, you will:

• Develop and implement GenAI-based solutions (LLM applications, RAG pipelines, multi-agent systems) tailored for Finance Transformation.
• Work on proof-of-concepts and accelerators that apply AI to finance processes such as reconciliations, journal entry automation, anomaly detection, reporting, and treasury.
• Partner with global client teams to translate business problems into AI-driven solutions.
• Support end-to-end project lifecycle: problem definition, solution design, prototyping, testing, deployment, and adoption.
• Contribute to thought leadership, proposals, and business development for GenAI offerings.
• Stay updated with the evolving AI/ML ecosystem and assess applicability for PwC clients.
  
  

• Strong programming expertise in Python is a must.
• Hands-on experience with Generative AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI, LangGraph) is good to have
• Experience in working with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, etc.) or open-source models (LLaMA, Falcon, Mistral).
• Proficiency in AI/ML model development: prompt engineering, fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment.
• Exposure to finance processes (R2R/O2C/P2P) is good to have.
• Working knowledge of data visualization & reporting tools (PowerBI, Tableau, Alteryx) is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and client-facing consulting skills.
• Experience with Microsoft tools (Power Platform, PowerApps, SharePoint List) and Data modeling/Database setup (including SQL) is good to have
  
  

Desired Attributes

• Strategic thinker with a consulting mindset and ability to link AI solutions to business value.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills.
• Effective storytelling and communication skills to various audiences.
• Proactive, self-driven, and collaborative team player.
  
  

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Data Science, AI/ML, or related fields.
• Additional qualification in Finance/Accounting (MBA Finance /CA ) is good to have.
  
  

• Travel Requirements: May require travel to client locations as per project needs.
• Line of Service: Consulting Solutions
• Horizontal: Finance Transformation – AI/GenAI
• Selection Process: Candidates will be given a technical homework assignment (AI/DS task), which will be reviewed and discussed during interviews.
  
  

Experience & Level: 4 – 6 years | Senior Associate

Location: Bangalore / Hyderabad / Mumbai

Competency Overview: Finance Solutions – Artificial Intelligence & Data Science

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