Senior Associate – Deals Advisory - M&A Ops

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. Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow. Skills Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to: Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others. Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems. Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts. Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy. Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing. Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas. Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations. 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. Core responsibilities as a Manager would entail (but not limited to) Pre and post deal performance improvement using our proprietary Value Creation methodology; including identifying operational improvement levers e.g. site footprint consolidation, procurement efficiencies, back office rationalisation, supply chain optimisation, etc. Supporting carve-outs and divestments to achieve viable standalone businesses; including advising on separation planning, execution, transition and optimisation e.g. Day 1 readiness, migration planning, TSA / LTA requirements, separation cost analysis, etc. Providing buy and sell side Operational Due Diligence; including analysing the operations of a business along the value chain e.g. production, supply chain, support functions, Capex investment, etc. Mergers and acquisitions integration support; including defining and executing the integration programme, and developing and reviewing operational synergies in combining the two businesses. Assisting with other non-transactional products to support clients in maximising profitability e.g. zero based budgeting. Across the engagements above, as a Manager your role will be primarily to lead a workstream within a large project (or lead a wider remit on a smaller project), own analysis to substantiate your findings and communicate them to key internal and external stakeholders verbally and via written report format. You will be expected to manage Associates and Senior Associates to support project delivery as well as owning a range of business development activities. Must-have Skills Able to demonstrate a strong understanding of a function such as; engineering, operations, maintenance, procurement, supply-chain or manufacturing Can quickly assess the performance of a business (or elements of it) and outline improvement opportunities based upon limited information and/ or interactions with Management Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and communicate with senior business leaders Excellent quantitative and written skills, able to build analyses or an evidence base to support a position, often in situations with imperfect or incomplete information A healthy curiosity, coupled with a disciplined approach to understanding and solving problems Able to work from first-principles and stay focused on the ‘why’ when performing analyses or reviewing documentation Comfortable under pressure and managing through ambiguity to deliver tasks in an environment where there are many unknowns Adaptable, and up for the challenge of mastering new industries and developing experience in a wide variety of product types Capability or willingness to develop skill in AI and data analytics e.g. Alteryx, PowerBI, Tableau Experience Operational or transformational leadership experience within a corporate environment, including experience in one or more of the following: lean manufacturing, manufacturing / maintenance best-practice, operational restructuring and cost reduction Or Experience leading workstreams within a professional services environment (either in a Deals or Consulting background), focused on IPS or EUR Eligibility Criteria MBA in Strategy/ Marketing/ Finance from a premium B-SchoolPast Experience: 6+ years of prior relevant work experience Experience in M&A or management consulting domain