Advisory - Deals - Financial Due Diligence - Manager - KOL/BLR/HYD/GGN

A career in our Financial Due Diligence practice, within Deals Transaction Services, will provide you the opportunity to help organisations realise the potential of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and capital markets. In short, we help some of the world’s leading companies originate, create, execute, and realise value from deals. Through data driven insights we help our clients move in the right direction ensuring maximum value for their company. Our team assist organisations with both buy side and sell side due diligence. As part of our team, you’ll help us provide both corporate and financial buyers with peace of mind by analysing and validating all the financial, commercial, operational and strategic assumptions being made.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

Responsibilities

As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Develop new skills outside of comfort zone.
• Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.
• Coach others, recognise their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.
• Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
• Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.
• Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
• Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.
• Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
• Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarising key points.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
  
  

Primary Responsibilities Of The Role

• Pre-Deal (IT Due Diligence):
  
  

OIT Function Assessment

Support clients in developing key IT strategies for M&A engagements with a focus on IT due diligence across the IT function including IT applications and data, IT infrastructure, IT security and IT organisation (including IT vendors).

This involves evaluating IT landscapes to identify synergies and dis-synergies, understanding the business's IT transformation vision, and identifying technical inefficiencies.

Propose recommendations for the target IT landscape, identify IT-related opportunities and risks, and formulate strategies to mitigate them.

oIT spend Analysis: Conduct IT spend analysis, including vendor contract reviews to uncover hidden transactional costs, and provide recommendations for cost efficiencies. Perform IT benchmarking for key performance indicators using insights from previous projects and research

databases.

oSubject Matter Expertise: Provide basic subject matter expertise across one or more of the following critical components of IT landscape:

ERP assessment and separation/ integration planning (e.g., SAP etc.)

Enterprise Architecture

Infrastructure (Servers, Data Center, Storage, Network, End User Computing)

Cloud

Security and Access Management (Cybersecurity Services, Cyber maturity assessment framework leveraging NIS2 framework)

IT Financials in M&A and Transformation Scenarios (IT Opex / Capex Cost Modeling)

• Post-Deal (Integration/Separation):
  
  

oIntegration and Separation Planning: Provide support for IT integration and separation activities post-deal. This includes planning and readiness for program, integration, and transformation management offices, as well as Day 1/100 readiness planning.

oVendor Management: Assist in vendor evaluation and selection, bid formulation, and ongoing vendor management to ensure smooth integration or separation processes.

oDigital and Technology Transformation: Advise on large-scale transformation engagements by identifying, designing, and implementing creative business and technology solutions. Plan and implement IT integration, separation, and transformation projects, providing advisory and PMO support for enterprise systems like ERP, CRM, and Big Data.

oTechnology Implementation: Guide projects involving enterprise application integration and transformation across various components of the IT landscape, ensuring comprehensive solutions are delivered.

• Additional Requirements:
• Critical problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment.
• Ability to use tools outside of traditional methods such as MS excel, PowerPoint, and enable smart working.
• Framing issues and breaking it down into hypotheses to be solved
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Core consulting skills including (MS Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, Project), story boarding etc.
• Improving internal processes and promoting knowledge sharing in the team.
  
  

Flexibility to travel if required.