Deals Strategy Senior Associate

Line of Service Advisory Industry/Sector Not Applicable Specialism Delivering Deal Value Management Level Senior Associate

Job Description
& Summary Whatever their specific business priorities, unlocking new ways to create durable, long-term value is critical for our clients. A career with Value Creation will provide you with the opportunity to help clients enhance their revenue and maximize profitability, especially during mergers and acquisitions (M&A) processes. PwC Deals Strategy
- Value Creation Practice We help our clients determine the right strategic priorities to grow profitably and maximize value and offer support and practical solutions to achieve these objectives. We combine strategic insight, rigorous analysis and in-depth industry expertise with access to PwC's global network of industry and functional specialists, local knowledge and resources. Growth Strategy: Assist clients assess where and how to grow by identifying organic and inorganic growth opportunities, unlocking growth levers and prioritizing growth programs (e.g., geographies, sectors / industries, customer segments, products / services) Strategic Planning: Assist clients in setting their business ambitions, generate and evaluate key strategic initiatives to achieve these and deliver against a plan Market Entry Strategy: Assist clients in assessing the attractiveness of a market by understanding market dynamics, including size (current and future), growth rate, key trends, market segments, profitability and cost structure, customers, distribution channels, key players and disruptors Commercial Due Diligence: Assist both financial and corporate buyers and sellers in evaluating investments by understanding the dynamics of the deal and the business, including deal hypotheses, industry dynamics, value drivers, synergies and risks In addition to working with clients, we regularly engage in new business development initiatives such as white paper discussion documents, client proposals, and practitioner training to increase our team’s overall capabilities. Our Clients
- Major Canadian private and public corporations
- Leading Canadian financial buyers (Private Equity and Pension Funds)
- Inbound financial and strategic acquirers The Opportunity As a Deal Integration and Value Realization Senior Associate, unlock your potential and embrace the chance to drive meaningful outcomes that’ll elevate your career. Your role will include, but isn’t limited to:
- Collaborate with clients in defining their strategic ambitions and developing actionable plans to achieve long-term growth objectives
- Facilitate strategy development processes, including strategic assessments, option evaluation and prioritization of key initiatives
- Work with executive teams in evaluating organic and inorganic growth opportunities, including acquisitions, partnerships and new market expansion
- Identify growth or operational enhancement opportunities to rapidly increase performance supported by data analysis
- Partnering with companies in delivering on execution of growth or improvement opportunities
- Support the development of growth plans, channel strategies and product strategies for clients to enable them to grow their business and maximize their enterprise value
- Assist in developing the future strategy, business model and cost reduction targets as well as implementation plans to rapidly deliver on cost reduction initiatives
- Identify quick wins to improve earnings and build stakeholder confidence
- Help client management develop and implement a turnaround or transformation program What You'll Bring Your skills, knowledge, and experiences are what set you apart. Here's what we look for: Strong problem-solving skills (both quantitative and qualitative) Experience with business strategy, strategy deployment programs or strategic transformation programs Advisory experience from a management consultancy, or as an 'internal consultant' in a multinational corporate Strong analytical skills; ability to conduct analysis with spreadsheets, financial and operational KPIs, to create sustainable value for clients Financial acumen
- comfort with P&L analysis, cash flow and balance sheet work General understanding of the M&A lifecycle, including transaction strategy, due diligence, value creation planning and post-transaction execution. Strong executive communication and presentation skills, with the ability to synthesize complex analyses into clear recommendations and prepare executive-ready PowerPoint deliverables. Willing to travel occasionally throughout Canada, with the potential to travel outside of Canada, depending on client requirements. Candidates must be able to enter the USA to work on client assignments PwC Canada is committed to cultivating an inclusive, hybrid work environment. Exact expectations for your team can be discussed with your interviewer. The successful candidate requires fluency in English, in addition to French as they will be req