Advisory Deals - Deals Strategy - Manager

Job description / Role

Advisory Deals - Deals Strategy - Manager - Riyadh

Business analysis
- Quickly gets on top of industry and business issues
- Forms an opinion and articulates client/target strategy from e.g. business plan
- Identifies deal issues, drawing on experience from previous projects

Sense-checks and triangulates research and output with other data sources
- Applies intellectual rigour
- Continuously challenges and sense-checks Consultants and Senior Consultants output for robustness and integrity

Financial analysis
- Able to understand and discuss in detail financial projections with the client and more senior team members
- Challenges business plan assumptions and develops strategies to test reasonableness of assumptions
- Able to create draft commentary and risk assessment of business plan assumptions
- Understands and is up-to-date with deal environment, latest thinking and roles of various parties within it

Business development:
- Sector expertise: you will be expected to drive thought-leadership and business development as well as building your own personal sector knowledge
- You will be expected to start to develop and maintain your own client relationships and to participate in pitching activity and scoping new assignments
- You may also be asked to contribute to media activity and act as a spokesperson for PwC Deals Strategy

Client relationships:
- The primary role of a Manager is to drive the day to day running of the project. This involves project scoping, developing the teams work plan, structuring the content of the deliverable, reviewing and challenging the output produced by the team and driving the conclusions. The Manager will also have responsibility for day to day contact with the client and other stakeholders and will usually be tasked with presenting the findings to the client. Depending on the size and complexity of the project, Manager will report in to a Senior Manager or Director

Internal:
- Managers also have an important role in contributing to the running of the PwC Strategy business by taking an active involvement in people management, recruitment, training, knowledge management and thought leadership

Requirements

- Bachelor degree required, ideally with concentration in Business Administration, Economics or Engineering
- M.B.A. or Masters degree preferred
- Financial modelling experience with strong Excel skills required
- 4-6 years relevant experience required
- Fluent English required, Arabic preferred

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.