Advisory - Deals - Strategy& - Manager - KOL/BLR

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 integration and valuation realisation at PwC will focus on assisting clients in successfully integrating acquisitions and maximising the value of their investments. You will be responsible for conducting valuations, financial analysis, and developing strategies for post-merger integration.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Skills

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

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• 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.
  
  

Job Overview: This position is for a Manager to lead and be part of a fast-growing Strategy& practice within our Advisory Acceleration Centre. Strategy& (S&) is our global strategy consulting business. It is a specialist team within PwC that combines strategy consulting capabilities with leading industry and sector insights and know-how. The team helps clients identify and build the capabilities essential to their advantage, and develop strategies based on these capabilities. S& serves four main go-to-market channels: Deal Execution (M&A), Post-Deal Value Creation, Portfolio Companies, Corporate and Public Sector Clients (non-deals) across industries (including Technology, Media, Telco, Consumer Products, Retail, Industrials, Professional Services, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Pharma). The Deals channel is the largest channel for our UK team. Our work shapes the M&A landscape by supporting private equity (PE) and corporate clients in developing investment perspectives and value creation strategies that make a difference in the highly competitive M&A market. We serve PE clients with over £2.5 trillion in assets under management, and publicly traded companies with a combined market capitalisation of over £4 trillion. From initial investment strategy development to commercial due diligence, value creation post-close and exit, we’re here to help our clients drive growth. The S& Acceleration Centre in India is a specialist team within our broader PwC Kolkata Acceleration Centre that plays a critical role working with the UK team in project preparation and executing, including all responsibilities typically required of a UK-based team member from Experienced Associate to Manager. This includes analysis, research, output creation, presentation and discussion. Responsibilities include: As a Manager at S& KAC, you will lead a team of problem solvers, working on complex business issues from strategy to execution. Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Be an active and visible leader with passion and commitment to the S& KAC team, developing strong relationships with the UK-based S& team
• Provide day-to-day coaching and mentorship to the S& KAC team on work-planning, problem solving, hypotheses generation and research tools, including working with teams on clientfacing deliverables and reviewing others’ work for quality, accuracy, and relevance
• Managing teams in developing and implementing capabilities that are aligned with the S& focus areas.
• Promote high performance and a sustainable work-life balance while managing expectations with leadership and UK-based staff
• Develop new standardised delivery modules to extend those that have already been created (e.g. competition benchmarking, survey analysis, website scraping, customer and financial analysis, slide creation, industry research, knowledge management, and more)
• Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively
• Refine existing and develop new S& KAC onboarding and training programmes
• Work closely with the UK S& team to fully support client development and engagements
• Promote new ideas and services by applying knowledge of the industry / sector and societal
  
  

trends to create value for clients, PwC, and broader stakeholders

• Demonstrate critical thinking, an ability to bring order to unstructured problems, and excellent
  
  

commercial acumen

• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct
  
  

Other Areas

• Contribute to practice enablement and business development activities (proposal responses, client
  
  

interactions, workshop preparation, etc.)

• Translate client business requirements, user needs, and technical requirements into
  
  

designs that are visually enticing, easy to use, and emotionally engaging

• Learning new tools and technologies including generative AI (genAI) as required
• Develop internal relationships to build trust in an effort to develop and market the KAC brand
• Keep up to date with local and global business and economic issues
• Staying in the loop and on top of the latest M&A trends
  
  

Desired Experience And Skills

• 8 to 10 years of industry experience with an emphasis on consulting services and project
  
  

delivery as well as team building and operational leadership

• Relevant experience in private equity, commercial due diligence, target screening
  
  

and / or M&A advisory is an asset

• Ability to effectively manage teams across multiple concurrent projects under stringent
  
  

timelines

• Relevant experience in conducting primary research (including desktop research, surveys and
  
  

web scraping) and secondary research required

• Relevant experience in analysis of complex data (e.g. survey outputs, financial statements,
  
  

business plans) required

• Relevant experience in creating client-ready deliverables including PowerPoint slides and
  
  

reports required

• Experience in using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint is required, and experience with data
  
  

visualisation tools like Power BI and other similar tools is an asset

• Multi-tasking and balancing time effectively, keeping a rapid pace without sacrificing quality
• Excellent commercial / business acumen with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Extensive experience in creating clear and concise reports, including graphics and data visualisation and commentary for clients, and clearly presenting findings to others
  
  

Desired Soft Skills

• Effective communication and storytelling skills to various audiences (written and verbal)
• Strong work ethic, proactive and professional behaviour
• Strategic and creative thinker, problem solver
  
  

Educational Background

• MBA from premier B-Schools (preferred)
• Strong academic credentials, analytical ability and leadership skills
  
  

Additional Information

• Time type: Full time
• Work timings: Work hours may vary for specific projects
• Travel requirements: None
• Past experience: Past experience in consulting and exposure to a multinational environment will be an added bonus.