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.
You will join our Strategy& Value Creation team that combines our strategy consulting expertise with the vast capabilities of the PwC network. You will focus on key strategic challenges facing businesses, working on a diverse range of engagements - from supporting global, multi-billion-pound brands to advising private equity clients on how to maximise value across their portfolio companies.
In Turnaround and Performance Improvement , you will work on a variety of assignments supporting clients to implement operational changes, contribute to process improvements to improve the overall performance, cost and sustainability of their operations. You will work closely to PwC UK, working on projects together, interacting with UK members on daily basis
Work with the client engagement teams across the network to support global engagements from the KSDC offices, while ensuring the highest quality of deliverables and innovative solutioning, to meet and exceed Client requirements.
Responsibilities
Lead the end-to-end delivery of project workstreams or engagements, ensuring high-quality outputs are delivered on time and meet client expectations and commercial objectives.
Engage directly with clients to understand operational challenges and business requirements, structuring complex problems and defining tailored approaches to address client needs.
Lead the design, planning and delivery of operational improvement initiatives, managing multiple workstreams and coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver measurable impact.
Oversee the application of our bespoke digital analytics tools for clients, ensuring robust financial and operational analysis, effective data visualisation, and the generation of clear insights, recommendations and actionable business plans.
Lead analytical workstreams on Deals assignments, including macroeconomic research, company profiling, competitor benchmarking and financial benchmarking, while ensuring analytical quality and relevance to client objectives.
Manage project teams, including delegating tasks, reviewing analysis and deliverables, mentoring junior team members, and ensuring work is delivered to a high professional standard.
Actively manage project risks and delivery challenges, identifying issues early and implementing mitigation strategies while keeping senior stakeholders informed.
Lead or significantly contribute to proposals and business development activities, including preparing pitch materials, defining engagement approaches and supporting opportunity conversion.
Build and maintain strong client relationships, acting as a trusted point of contact during engagements and identifying potential follow-on opportunities.
Contribute to the development of the Business Unit, including leading internal initiatives, improving methodologies and tools, and supporting the development and upskilling of team members.
Essential Skills & Experience
Strong problem-solving and commercial judgement, with the ability to independently structure complex problems, lead analytical workstreams, and translate insights into clear, actionable recommendations for clients.
Proven ability to lead and manage project workstreams, including planning activities, allocating tasks, overseeing quality of analysis, and ensuring delivery against timelines and client expectations.
Experience managing and developing junior team members, providing guidance, reviewing outputs, and ensuring high-quality deliverables while supporting team development.
Strong analytical capability, including overseeing the collection, manipulation and interpretation of financial and non-financial data to generate insights that support strategic decision-making; advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
Ownership of client deliverables, including leading the development of clear, structured and impactful reports and presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Excellent client-facing, interpersonal and communication skills, with the confidence to engage with senior stakeholders, lead meetings and present findings in clear, high-quality business English (written and oral).
Strong project and delivery management skills, including the ability to coordinate multiple workstreams, manage competing priorities, and ensure high-quality outcomes in fast-paced environments.
Strong understanding of operational business drivers, with the ability to guide teams beyond analysis to identify implications, shape recommendations and clearly articulate the “so what” to clients.
Solid understanding of working capital components and value drivers, with the ability to identify optimisation opportunities and support clients in implementing improvement initiatives.
Experience leveraging analytics and visualisation tools, including but not limited to Qualtrics, Alteryx and Power BI, to support insight generation and engagement delivery (relevant certifications such as Alteryx Core or Advanced are desirable).
Ability to contribute to engagement growth and opportunity development, including identifying follow-on opportunities, supporting proposals and contributing to business development activities.
Experience working effectively within globally dispersed teams, coordinating across geographies and stakeholders to deliver client engagements.
Working knowledge of emerging AI and digital tools, with the ability to identify opportunities to enhance analysis, delivery and client value
