Career Opportunties at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary

In CMAAS, we support clients in moments of exceptional change such as:
Growth – Our team of transactions and deals experts advises companies throughout the transaction process, bringing a unique blend of transaction and accounting expertise that helps clients manage the deals process smoothly, compliant and within the timelines. These include Financial Due Diligence, M&A and business valuations.
Capital raising – We support clients on IPO readiness assessments, identifying key issues and risks early in the process and providing timely guidance to remediate. Our capital markets advisory team advises clients to minimise execution risk to ensure the best possible outcome on capital market transactions.
Divestiture – CMAAS provides clients with tools and structuring options paper, step plans and balance sheet modelling and carve-outs to navigate complexities around divestitures. We also carry out exit readiness assessments for clients to maximise value for stakeholders.
Stress – We support clients on complex project advisory to remediate challenges faced during restructuring as well as offer proactive advice to anticipate potential matters and provide options available for their resolution. These include group restructuring.
Change – Our team of accounting experts support clients through accounting GAAP conversions as well as accounting standards change. Our approach is to make the connections across the organisation and ensure integration of the change across relevant business processes.

About the Job

We are seeking to strengthen our team by recruiting highly motivated individuals for the position of Manager in our CMAAS team dedicated to Growth, Capital Raising and Divestiture advisory . You will join a dynamic team to deliver strategic client projects in Valuations/Pricing, Due Diligence, Structuring deals and transactions and / or Lead Advisory in both private and public sector transactions.
We are seeking to strengthen our team by recruiting highly motivated individuals for the position of Manager in our CMAAS team dedicated to Growth, Capital Raising and Divestiture advisory . You will join a dynamic team to deliver strategic client projects in Valuations/Pricing, Due Diligence, Structuring deals and transactions and / or Lead Advisory in both private and public sector transactions.


Roles and Responsibilities

• To lead and deliver Financial Due diligence engagements, support M&A through valuations and pricing
• Building and reviewing of financial models.
• Execution of mandates related to mergers and acquisitions (buyouts, disposals), growth capital and debt financing, project / infrastructure finance, privatisations and PPP;
• To support team leadership and the management of staff and project teams
  • To take up delegated responsibilities for delivery of client work
  • To manage assignment economics as delegated
• To lead efforts and support business development efforts including networking, deal origination and presentations at seminars and workshops;
• Preparing and reviewing of transaction documentation including business plans, information memoranda and financial forecasts
• To develop, coach and mentor junior staff
• To participate in the firm's and team’s corporate activities and initiatives
• To actively work with other lines of service to grow the business

Desired skills and competencies

• Excellent team leadership, interpersonal and collaboration skills
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and problem-solving skills
• Strong report writing and communication skills
• Experience managing a team of analysts;
• Willingness to travel and operate at a regional level.
   

Minimum years experience required

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in carrying out business valuations, due diligences and / or lead advisory work in private sector M&A or public sector privatization / PPP transactions in a similar role preferably within a professional services firm, investment bank, and or private equity fund
• Experience and relationships with a broad range of clients including large corporates, SMEs, family businesses, DFIs, PE firms and impact investors.

Additional application instructions

• A Bachelor’s Degree from a recognized institution (e.g. in Finance, Accounting or Economics or another relevant field)
• ACCA, CPA (K), CFA, MBA or equivalent qualification desirable but not essential provided financial experience and acumen can be clearly demonstrated.

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Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
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Government Clearance Required?
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Job Description & Summary

A career in our Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.

As a member of the team, you’ll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. In joining, you’ll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Information Technology with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems.

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 an authentic and inclusive leader, at all grades/levels and in all lines of service. 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 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:

• Take action to ensure everyone has a voice, inviting opinion from all.
• Establish the root causes of issues and tackle them, rather than just the symptoms.
• Initiate open and honest coaching conversations at all levels.
• Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
• Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.
• Develop specialised expertise in one or more areas.
• Advise stakeholders on relevant technical issues for their business area.
• Navigate the complexities of global teams and engagements.
• Build trust with teams and stakeholders through open and honest conversation.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Have extensive experience of leading the large scale digital and/or ICT transformations encompassing the wide range of multi-disciplinary skills required to deliver change through emerging technologies in both private and Public Sector
• Be a trusted adviser, with a track record of advising senior executives and company boards on executing value led digital and/or ICT transformation within leading organisations
• They will have market presence, having a personal significant track record of delivering impactful results across a large network of clients
• An inspiring team leader, able to rapidly establish and lead high performing, multi-disciplinary teams, drawn from across PwC, our clients’ staff and third-party organisations
• Be an accomplished professional in building effective relationships with third-party delivery organisations through the process of sourcing selecting, and managing the technical engagement with vendors/software providers
• A confident and impactful communicator, both written and verbal, able to clearly explain solution design to non-technical audiences, and technical design to technical audiences
• Deep focus on one or more of Fit for Growth, Business Market Growth Strategy, Digital Transformation and disruption, ICT transformation, Capabilities Development and Strategic Cost Reduction leveraging on technology.
• Excellent client handling skills with experience of leading external client projects and/ or large scale ICT Transformation change programme.
• Strong change and people leadership skills, track record of successful change execution and an exemplary track record in providing client satisfaction

Minimum years experience required

• Bachelor's/master’s in finance, MBA and/or Information technology with over 10+years of experience in Technology Consulting.

Additional application instructions

• This role will give you many opportunities for growth and provide you with extraordinary experiences. If you are keen to grow your career your own way and to discover how a career with PwC will benefit you, please visit www.pwc. com/ke/careers and apply online. Your career path will be unique, diverse and exceptional as we give you the best opportunities to excel and shine.

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

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Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

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Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

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