Tech Consulting Senior Associate - Enterprise Apps at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary

• A career within Technology Consulting Advisory services, will provide you with the opportunity to help organizations transform their technology capabilities and solve their most critical challenges. We focus on building technology enabled and agile operating models, planning their new enterprise architecture into a differentiating capability system that helps them win in the market, leveraging digital analytics to enhance customer experience and optimizing business operations, and using modern technologies and next generation sourcing strategies to help our clients get fit for growth.
• 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.

As a Senior Associate, you will 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:

• CIO Strategy / IT Operating Model: shaping how IT operates to achieve Business objectives
• Business and Enterprise Architecture: developing the foundation for client business and technology capabilities and execution improvement
• Enterprise Application modernization and migration to cloud.
• Build relationships with our clients to understand and address their needs
• Lead proposals, including building teams, developing methodologies and budgets
• Ability to break down and solve problems through quantitative thinking and analysis
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team and create an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organization
• Capability to support an independent workstream in the context of a broader team project
• Contributing to the wider business through business development, knowledge sharing, coaching and mentoring junior team members and other activities
• Comfort with ambiguous, ever-changing situations
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.

Person Specification

• Previous technology consulting experience from either a Top Tier Consulting firm, Large Technology Companies, Telco or Corporate.
• At least 4+ years of solid Implementation functional experience in SAP ERP (ECC or S/4HANA) preferably with large scale SAP ERP implementations.
• Strong technical skills and 4+ years experience in the following areas:
  • Business Analysis
  • Enterprise Architecture 
• Ability to multitask effectively and balance time between project delivery and business development support effectively
• Good client management skills, including an understanding of how to communicate with clients of different backgrounds and opinions
• Evidence of contributing to the wider team and leading on business development opportunities
• Leadership skills, Presentation skills, Communication and Interpersonal skills, Negotiation skills, Financial literacy, Analytical and strategic skills
• Good team player, Highly motivated, Ability to lead others, Attentive to detail, Positive attitude, Ability to mentor others, Confident, Proactive
• Proven experience of coaching junior team members

Qualifications

• Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems (or related technical areas) 
• Certification in SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA
• Business Analysis qualification such as CBAP, would be an advantage
• Project Management certification such as PMP/ Prince 2/ Prince2 Agile
• Other Professional Certifications: ISTQB, ITIL, CGEIT,TOGAF etc.
• Professional Body Membership