About The Team Financial Decisions and Analysis (FDnA) is the modelling and analytics Centre of Excellence within PwC Deals, and one of PwC's highest growth teams. We focus on the application of leading edge modelling and analytical techniques to help clients make good decisions and solve problems. We work on some of the most high profile deals in the market, across a wide range of clients and sectors. The PwC Deals team comprises our Transaction Services, Corporate Finance and Restructuring Service offerings. We support private equity firms, corporate clients and lenders through mergers, acquisitions, disposals and restructurings. We are looking to recruit a Senior Manager to join our high performing team, with a specific focus on modelling but with significant opportunities to support across our other offerings. We are looking for someone with a commercial mindset who can quickly get to the crux of business issues and deliver commercially "game changing" insight to our clients, enhancing value through compelling analysis. The successful candidate will have a track record of delivering financial modelling and analytics driven assignments to clients in a professional services environment. What we do Every assignment is different, but we broadly define our offering under the key headings Deal Modelling - increasing confidence in the deal by developing operational, financial and LBO models or by providing independent model assurance for some of the largest transactions and restructurings in the marketplace; Deal Analytics - providing quantitative insights in the deal process e.g. into customer behaviours, sales and marketing effectiveness, costs to serve and product profitability; Post Deal - driving performance transparency (cash forecasting, strategic planning, and reporting) and value creation to support the investment thesis through a technology enabled approach e.g. margin optimisation, strategic options analysis and operational effectiveness. About the Role As a Senior Manager, you will be supporting a broad range of assignments, stretching yourself across many different industry sectors and engaging directly with the senior management team and stakeholders of our clients. Your first assignment may be working with senior management of leading PE backed or FTSE listed businesses and their lenders to Improve clarity and transparency for investors and finance providers by developing a driver based integrated model which assists with budgeting, forecasting and refinancing; Design a short term cash flow forecasting framework to help our client to actively manage liquidity on a short term basis; Build a financial model to support our client at various stages of the deals cycle Identify and forecast restructuring options, and critically assess key risks and sensitivities; Understand the performance of different customers and products by applying techniques such as cohort analysis and clustering; Bring together advanced analytics and machine learning software to drive better decision making. Your responsibilities will include but may not be limited to Leading multidisciplinary teams directly with our clients to use data analysis, modelling and visualisation to support a Deal or restructuring process; Clear and concise communication of complex concepts and their business benefits to senior management and stakeholders (both internally and externally) from a range of backgrounds and business areas to help clients make robust, evidence based decisions; Connecting the dots from disparate information streams (e.g. extracts from client system, management reports, contracts) and turning them into structured data that can be analysed as part of a Deal or restructuring process to provide greater insight to our clients; Creating reports and presentations and communicating our findings to clients and their stakeholders. Responsibilities / requirements As a Senior Manager, you will work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to Proactively assist in the management of several clients, while reporting to Directors and above; Manage complex projects; Manage, lead and coach staff; Establish effective working relationships directly with both current and prospective clients; Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen; Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues; Lead business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients; Develop and monetise internal relationships and your PwC brand. Essential skills and experience To be successful in this role, you will also need to demonstrate the following Qualified ACA/ACCA or equivalent; Strong track record of delivering financial modelling and/ or analytics solutions to clients in a professional services environment; Exceptional analytical and technical aptitude, possess both financial and commercial acumen and enjoy problem solving to understand the drivers of a business, analyse their data and use this to provide insight and advice to our clients; History of independently managing and coaching teams of varying sizes as part of successful client project delivery; Proven track record of business development, proactively identifying sales opportunities and successfully converting these into deliverable projects; Deep experience of modelling and advanced Excel skills; Proficient in complex financial and economic analysis to identify sensitivities; Exceptional analytical and technical aptitude, possess both financial and commercial acumen and enjoy problem solving to understand the drivers of a business, analyse their data and use this to provide insight and advice to our clients; Have an entrepreneurial mindset and self-starter mentality, and be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity with little supervision to come up with creative solutions to complex problems and develop these ideas into structured deliverable projects; The ability to manage time, prioritise tasks, self-review your work and produce deliverables of a high quality under tight client deadlines in time pressured environments; A strong desire to acquire and share technical knowledge with colleagues and clients; Passion for innovation, technology and new tools, and applying and developing yourself to new areas (e.g. quickly getting up to speed with tools, analytical approaches and business challenges); The ability to build collaborative working relationships at all levels, establishing credibility both internally and externally. Desirable skills Experience working in restructuring, advising distressed businesses and their stakeholders; Experience with assisting business development activities through working on bids and proposal responses; Experience in developing deliverables in visualisation tools, such as Tableau or PowerBI; Experience with data structuring and use of related software such as Alteryx. Deals Our Deals business is an exciting, fast-paced and an ever-growing business that focuses on deals and crisis situations for our clients. Collectively, we deal with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and we provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business. Not the role for you? Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)? 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Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.