Senior Associate - Experience Centre (Disruption Team) at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job ID: 263838WD
Line of Service: Internal Firm Services
Industry / Sector: Not Applicable
Specialism: IFS - Internal Firm Services - Other
Management Level: Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

• A career with Innovation Services will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients' redesign, redefine, and redeploy their assurance and/or tax departments to be a strategic asset across the enterprise. You'll focus on assisting clients as they incorporate increased automation, machine learning, data & analytics, Open Source technologies into their processes to deliver better quality output and contribute more strategically to organisational decision making.
• Megatrends and emerging technologies are changing the world we live in. These fundamental global shifts and the collisions between them are reshaping societies, economies and behavioural norms everywhere. Traditional business models are continuously being disrupted…
• A career with the Disruption team at the Experience Centre, will provide you with a unique opportunity to:
  • Help our clients: anticipate and understand these disruptive forces, by rethinking their business models and their core purpose.
  • Conduct intensive research on business landscape, PwC Nigeria capabilities and strategy.
  • Create lean canvas by line of service: vision, strategy and value proposition

Responsibilities

• You’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with a ‘dare to think’ mentality.
• Assist clients get up to speed with what technologies and trends might disrupt their business model;
• Assist clients identify and prioritize these disruptions in the form of actionable responses.
• Assist in the management and delivering of large transformational projects through prototyping, mock-ups and simulations.
• Define and collate Disruption methods, tools and playbooks
• Bring the best of PwC by working with and connecting teams with relevant people in the different Lines of Services
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify disruption research opportunities with new/existing clients;
• Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen
• Keep abreast with local and national business and economic issues

Experience and Qualifications

• First Degree in any discipline with minimum of Second-Class Division.
• Prior experience at a Consulting firm, high-growth Organisation or start-up Fintech, banking, or financial services background is preferred 
• Minimum Years of Experience:  3 + years of proven success in digital / disruptive technologies marketing roles with at least one year of leading teams.

Preferred Skills:

• Demonstrates some proven abilities to develop strategy; as well as proven success and thorough abilities to write, communicate, facilitate, and present cogently; to and/or for all levels of industry audiences, clients and internal staff and management
• Demonstrates proven success in roles and thorough abilities to identify and address client needs, which include the following: developing and sustaining deep client relationships using networking, negotiation and persuasion skills to identify and sell potential new service opportunities; preparing and presenting complex written and verbal materials; and defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing and collection
• Understanding and application of design thinking
• Understanding of agile methodology
• Good knowledge of consulting across a broad scope of transformational offerings across front and back office
• Evidence of excellent influencing and communication skills and the capability to challenge and manage senior stakeholders.
• Proactive with a positive can-do approach.
• A thirst for emerging trends
• Self-starter able to work effectively as a member of a team.

Travel Requirements:

• Up to 20%.