Capital Markets and Accounting Advisory Services (CMAAS) Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary

• PwC is a network of firms committed to delivering quality in Assurance, Tax and Advisory services. We help resolve complex issues for our clients and identify opportunities.
• At PwC, our people in CMAAS focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as capital markets transactions, business combinations, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, hive-ups and restructuring. They help clients navigate complex transactions and maximize value in their business transactions.
• In capital markets accounting advisory services at PwC, you will focus on providing strategic guidance on a broad range of technical accounting, financial reporting, transaction structures and capital markets topics. You will advise clients on complex accounting advisory, business modelling and financial reporting issues around deals (both public and private) and other transformational business events that may impact an organization’s value. We are recruiting to fill the position below:
• Are you ready to build a career in a rapidly changing world? Developing as a PwC Professional means that you will be ready to create and capture opportunities to advance your career and fulfill your potential.
• Growing as a strategic advisor, you leverage your influence, expertise, and network to deliver quality results. You motivate and coach others, coming together to solve complex problems. As you increase in autonomy, you apply sound judgment, recognizing when to take action and when to escalate. You are expected to solve through complexity, ask thoughtful questions, and clearly communicate how things fit together. Your ability to develop and sustain high performing, diverse, and inclusive teams, and your commitment to excellence, contributes to the success of our Firm.

What will you do if you work in CMAAS at PwC?

• You'll ask questions and test assumptions.
• You'll help determine if companies are reporting information that investors and others can rely on.
• You'll help businesses solve complex issues faced by management and boards.
• You'll serve the public interest and the capital markets by providing quality assurance, reporting accountant, and capital market advisory services.
• The world is quickly changing, that's why PwC is quickly adapting.
• We're capitalizing on trends that will impact corporate reporting.
• We combine skills and experience to help our clients address their challenges.

Roles & Responsibilities

• As a member of the Capital Markets practice within CMAAS, you will help clients navigate through complicated transactions and events, from evaluation through integration, in a multifaceted business environment.
• PwC helps clients negotiate with confidence. Some of the world's most prestigious companies rely on our buy-and-sell side due diligence capabilities and turn to us for advice on financial reporting, assurance and consulting services
• We also provide advice and project management for capital raising events such as initial public offerings, secondary listings and private placements.
• For companies in distressed situations, we advise on crisis avoidance, financial and operational restructuring.
• Clients rely on PwC to help them make informed and empowered decisions to invest, divest, raise capital or reorganize.
• As our clients execute on their chosen strategy, our focus turns to helping them extract value.
• PwC's CMAAS practice advises our clients in moments of exceptional change around deals and accounting change helping them shape strategy and transformation.
• CMAAS employs a team-based structure to tackle clients' needs with a solution oriented approach to creatively address complex financial reporting problems.
• We work on high profile transactions with significant interaction with senior company management teams, bankers, lawyers and other advisors.
• We have a coaching environment with both formal and informal systems in place as well as continuous on the job training to ensure industry leading personal and professional development.
• Our main areas of focus within the capital markets team include:
• Capital markets such as IPOs, spin-offs, debt raisings and capital structure advice;
• Acquisitions;
• Alliances such as enter/exit JVs, strategic alliances, licenses, collaborations, etc.;
• Divestitures;
• Crisis, restructurings and restatements; and,
• Advising capital market operators and participants to implement capital market strategies

Position/Program Requirements

• Minimum Year(s) of Experience: 8
• Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or other business field of study, including an acceptable NASBA foreign education equivalent.
• Certification(s) Required: CFA qualified and/or passed either ACA or ACCA Exam or the equivalent accounting or finance certification exam in the selected individual's home country.
• Financial services Industry/ Capital Markets experience, some investment banking and advisory experience is beneficial.

Knowledge Preferred:

• Participate as an individual contributor and a team member with senior CMAAS practitioners & other professionals (e.g. bankers, lawyers, auditors, advisors) on complex financial reporting and regulatory matters related to deals & other transformational events daily in areas of focus listed above.
• This includes demonstrating an extensive knowledge of and/or a proven record of success in the following areas.
• Advising multi-national, publicly-traded companies & private equity firms on a broad range of financial reporting, & capital markets topics including:
• IPOs, debt offerings, private placements.
• Carve-outs and/or spin-offs; and
• Acquisitions, alliances/joint ventures, post deal matters.
• Demonstrates a strong interest in deals, capital markets, and other transactions-based activities and should expect to operate in a high pressure, fast-paced work environment.