FFG - Strategy& - Senior Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
 

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Role Summary:

• Strategy&, PwC’s global strategy consulting business, has an exciting opportunity available for a FFG Senior Associate that will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities.
• Fit for growth is one of the most important strategic topics for client executives across all industries and a key component of PwC’s purpose statement to “Build trust in society and solve important problems”. This is a major focus and component of PwC’s strategy for the next decade.
• We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.
• We are one of the top three strategy consultancies globally, bringing the very best strategic thinking to help clients solve their toughest problems, and build the differentiating capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. In joining, you’ll help develop strategies that translate into action and help our clients power ahead in fiercely competitive global markets.
• Strategy& has several distinct characteristics, including a unique career track, a world-class and globally defined training curriculum, structured mentorship programmes, and leading people processes.
• When you join Strategy&, you join a global team with a proud heritage of pioneering ideas and through leadership. Strategy& focuses on the development of high impact and pragmatic strategies to solve complex problems and maximise market potential and differentiation. This is achieved through leveraging and strengthening core capabilities within the business and driving sustainable shareholder/stakeholder value and bottom line and impact. Our strategies incorporate detailed analytics, global and local leading practices and case studies, innovation, industry and domain SMEs, design business architecture and design of journey.

Qualifications / Certifications required:

• Honours or Masters degree from a top tier University with supporting qualification

Experience required:

• 1 - 3 years working experience in support of an in-depth expertise
• Experience in Strategy and Consulting work and a solid understanding of the related regulation and market demands.
• Experience working for a strategy house or a consulting firm.
• Experience in leading and managing complex projects.

Responsibilities of role:

You will work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Your responsibilities on client assignments will include:.

• Oversee client assignments through natural conclusion
• Manage client risks, governance and project administration (including financial management, project profitability, scope and timelines)
• Manage client, internal leadership and other relevant stakeholder relationships
• Manage, lead and inspire client engagements
• Support clients to implement organisational change through various types of client engagement and use of change management processes.
• Build productive and lasting relationships within Strategy& and PwC at all levels and be seen as a valued member of the office community
• High quality proposals and other business development initiatives.
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
• Shape and deliver projects to meet and exceed the expectations of our clients and our own quality criteria
• Continue to develop internal relationships and developing your PwC brand

Skill sets required:

• Work cross functionally with PwC competencies in a seamless and cohesive manner
• Be culturally and diversity aware and supportive of our South African and African contexts
• Demonstrate deep knowledge and awareness of current market trends and activities of key competitors
• Develop and shape proposals and propositions across countries, functions, sectors and accounts
• Adhere to and promote quality and risk management standards
• Focus on improving profitability while managing business risk
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills to facilitate interaction across hierarchies and functions
• Demonstrate strong quantitative skills and attention to detail, at the same time as having the ability to step back and identify high level issues
• Possess the flexibility and commercialism to manage a diverse range of responsibilities in a dynamic and results oriented environment.
• Able to demonstrate flexibility in adjusting to highly varied projects and rapidly coming up the learning curve in unfamiliar industries and functions
• Proven track record of successfully completing different types of projects, ranging from strategy to implementation, across a number of unrelated industries

Role related attributes:

• Ability to lead teams in an autonomous strategic, consulting environment and be seen as a strong team player with excellent communication and client handling skills
• Self-motivated and capable of developing innovative approaches to difficult issues
• Excellent attention to detail
• Highly analytical mind and structured thinking with sound business judgment and maturity, including the ability to develop a “big picture” view (intellectual curiosity)
• Ability to build strong relationships at all levels of the organisation (client and internal), rapidly building rapport, establishing your credibility and gaining trust
• Good organisational, time management and planning skill
• Positive outlook and contributor to a healthy team environment