Advisory - Deals - FDD - 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.

Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.

Skills

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

• Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
• Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
• Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.
• Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.
• Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
• Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
• Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.
  
  

Additional Job Description

Job Description

Main purpose of the job and key background information

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 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 analyzing 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 manner in which 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 are a self-starter with strong communication skills, an entrepreneurial mindset, the ability to work in a team, and a confident attitude;
• 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.
  
  

Requirements

These should include essential & desirable requirements such as:

Basic Qualifications

• Working knowledge of analytical tools like Excel, PowerSuite, and PowerPoint;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills;
• Certifications requirement: CA Fresher
• relevant knowledge in accounting, and financial and accounting due diligence;
• Working knowledge of analytical tools like Excel, Power Suite, and PowerPoint;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills;
• Certifications requirement: CA Fresher