Advisory - Deals - FDD - Senior Associate - Kolkata

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 financial due diligence at PwC will focus on providing strategic advice and business diligence services to clients in their mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. You will be responsible for analysing financial information focusing on quality of earnings and assets, cash flows and other key client deal issues.

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.
  
  

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities are assigned based on an evaluation of the candidate’s professional qualification, relevant experience, Excel skills, and a demonstrated working knowledge of financial analysis that impacts the business and economic environment. These could include:

As a Senior Associate, you will work as part of a team of financial diligence problem solvers in performing data driven financial and accounting diligence analysis and communicating with PwC network offices on project deliverables. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Work in a team interpreting data and
  
  

analysing results along with transforming

source data into a workable format, and

visualizing data insights, using tools like Excel

and Power Suites;

• Proactively work with team leaders and team
  
  

members to manage a workload of multiple

projects with competing priorities based on

relative importance and urgency;

• Communicating with team leaders, and PwC
  
  

network offices to understand scope and

expectations, and present project deliverables

once they have been completed;

• Mentor and leverage junior team members on
  
  

projects to facilitate coaching and

development;

• Keep up to date with local and international
  
  

business and economic issues, as they pertain

to assigned PwC network office regions.

• Understand the process workflow related to work
  
  

requests from initiation through completion,

understand how workflow is managed within the

firm's workflow management tool, understand

optimal and required way to document results of

work performed.

• Participate in a wide range of projects and
  
  

collaborate across multiple work streams or

teams; consistently demonstrating creative

thinking, individual initiative and timely

completion of assigned work.

• Consistently demonstrate teamwork dynamics by
  
  

working as a team member: understand personal

and team roles; contribute to a positive working

environment by building solid relationships with

team members; and proactively seek guidance,

clarification and feedback.

Preferred Qualifications

• You have a strong interest and knowledge of
  
  

mergers and acquisitions, possess exceptional

analytical skills as they relate to identifying

financial and strategic business trends, and

are able effectively interpret and communicate

the implications of those trends on a deal;

• You can demonstrate the ability to take responsibility for and ensures that assigned tasks are fulfilled in a timely way to a high standard;
• Consistently demonstrate teamwork dynamics by working as a team member: understand personal and team roles; contribute to a positive working environment by building solid relationships with team members; and proactively seek guidance, clarification and feedback;
• Effective written and verbal communication skills in English;
• Are self-motivated and have a desire to take responsibility for personal growth and development;
• Are committed to continuous training and to proactively learn new processes.