Career Opportunities at PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC)

Reference Number: 125-NIG00229
Locations: Lagos & Abuja
Department: Advisory
Job type: Permanent

Summary Responsibilities

• The Associate is responsible for contributing to the development of client deliverables and supporting the Senior Associate with project management and project administration.
• Learn about how the business works and adds value to clients
• Work with existing processes/systems, whilst making constructive suggestions for improvements
• Think broadly and ask questions about data, facts and other information.
• Use tools and techniques to support research, analysis and problem solving
• Quickly assimilate information as and when it becomes available.
• Produce high quality work which adheres to the relevant professional standards.
• Validate data and analysis for accuracy and relevance.
• Keep up-to-date with technical developments
• Take action to develop digital literacy.
• Draw on the technical knowledge of colleagues to support me.
• Use the firm’s knowledge and research tools to support the sharing of information.

Technical Competencies:

• Business research and analysis and financial analysis
• Knowledge of strategy frameworks
• Corporate strategy development
• Market studies, feasibility studies and business planning
• Working knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint and other work tools

Non-technical Competencies:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent planning, prioritizing, and organizational skills. Self-managing/motivating with the ability to balance competing priorities in a dynamic environment
• Strong business acumen, analytical, and problem-solving skills – including data structuring, quantitative reasoning and implication development
• Problem solver – taking on new challenges and ways of working even outside areas of comfort
• Willing and able to travel

Qualifications

• BSc. or BA in any discipline.

Experience:

• 1 - 3 years or more of relevant work experience.

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Reference Number: 125-NIG00230
Locations: Lagos & Abuja
Department: Advisory
Job type: Permanent

Summary responsibilities

• The Senior Associate is responsible for developing client deliverables, leading and managing team members to ensure quality outputs are always prepared and presented.
• The Senior Associate is also responsible for cascading the directions of the manager / senior manager to project team members, directs research and provide on the job coaching to team members.
• He / She is also expected to support the manager / senior manager in project administration and client management and contribute to the development of the wider practice through thought-leadership and being a role model to staff.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for the team’s work products and lead / guide project team members to produce quality output which addresses the client’s needs.
• Coach subordinates taking development needs into consideration – able to articulate to team how their work contributes to meeting project objectives
• Critically sense-check and evaluate team output before consolidating and putting together in a coherent manner
• Identify internal and project data requirements, oversee data gathering process
• Perform analysis, construct business and financial models and document commentary from analysis and models
• Understand and engage different knowledge sources – online, staff, competitors, senior management of key target customers – extract key messages and implications from these sources
• Support with establishing links with Industry Leaders and other Thought Leadership teams within and outside the PwC network to bring Thought Leadership to Nigerian clients and market and assist PwC Industry leaders in articulating and implementing industry plans
• Communicate with impact and confidence with team members and at meetings demonstrating grasp of all data and findings
• Set positive example by providing timely, meaningful verbal and written feedback.

Technical competencies

• Business research and analysis, financial analysis, and strategy, report writing
• Strategy frameworks
• Corporate strategy development
• Market studies, feasibility studies and business planning
• Working knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint and other work tools
• Knowledge of at least one of the following industry groups:
  • Agriculture
  • Communication & Entertainment
  • Energy and Power
  • Financial Services
  • Healthcare
  • Public Sector
  • Retail & Manufacturing
  • Telecommunication

Non-technical competencies

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to guide decision-making
• Strong business acumen, analytical, and problem-solving skills – including data structuring, quantitative reasoning and implication development
• Managing teams
• Problem solver – taking on new challenges and ways of working even outside areas of comfort
• Willing and able to travel

Qualifications

• BSc. or BA.
• MBA and/or Professional qualifications: ICAN, ACCA, CFA charter holder (added advantage)

Experience:

• 3 years or more of relevant work experience

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Reference Number: 125-NIG00231
Locations: Lagos & Abuja
Department: Advisory
Job type: Permanent

Summary responsibilities

• The Manager and Senior Manager is the centre of the team – structures project outputs, directs research, makes strong contribution to the development of the wider practice through thought-leadership, pitches, recruitment, training, coaching and being a role model to staff.
• Identify issues, draw out relevant industry trends, forms an opinion/point of view and articulates client/target strategy therefrom
• Allocate responsibilities to team members and suggest staffing changes, prioritize tasks so that the team has the capability, competence and time to perform the engagement/project in accordance with standards and agreed terms.
• Take responsibility for the quality of the team’s work products and addressing the needs of the client, PwC and other stakeholders.
• Coach subordinates taking development needs into consideration – able to articulate to team how their work contributes to meeting project objectives
• Challenge, sense-check and update team hypotheses and outputs for robustness and integrity
• Identify internal and project data requirements, oversee data gathering process, challenge team on completeness/appropriateness/accuracy of gathered data
• Perform analysis, construct business and financial models and document commentary from analysis and models
• Understand and engage different knowledge sources – online, staff, competitors, senior management of key target customers – extract key messages and implications from these sources
• Establish links with Industry Leaders and other Thought Leadership teams within and outside the PwC network to bring Thought Leadership to Nigerian clients and market and assist PwC Industry leaders in articulating and implementing industry plans
• Communicate with impact and confidence with team members and at meetings demonstrating grasp of all data and findings
• Contribute to the development of new methodologies or approaches to address client or PwC needs
• Set positive example by providing timely, meaningful verbal and written feedback.
• Contribute to Learning & Education design activity and/or instruct at training events.

Technical competencies

• Business research and analysis, financial analysis, and strategy, report writing
• Strategy frameworks
• Corporate strategy development
• Market studies, feasibility studies and business planning
• Working knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint and other work tools
• Deep knowledge of at least one of the following industry groups:
  • Agriculture
  • Communication & Entertainment
  • Energy and Power
  • Financial Services
  • Healthcare
  • Public Sector
  • Retail & Manufacturing
  • Telecommunication

Non-technical competencies

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to guide decision-making
• Excellent planning, prioritizing, and organizational skills. Self-managing/motivating with the ability to balance competing priorities in a dynamic environment
• Strong business acumen, analytical, and problem-solving skills – including data structuring, quantitative reasoning and implication development
• Managing teams across different business groups
• Problem solver – taking on new challenges and ways of working even outside areas of comfort
• Willing and able to travel

Qualifications

• BSc. or BA.
• MBA and/or Professional qualifications: ICAN, ACCA, CFA charter holder

Experience:

• 7 years or more of relevant work experience (at least 1 - 2 of these should be at Management Levels)