Capital Markets Accounting Advisory - Senior Associate

A career within Capital Markets Accounting Advisory Services, will provide you with the opportunity to be responsible for complex financial reporting issues around deals and other transformational events. You’ll tackle client’s needs with a solution oriented approach that creatively addresses complex financial reporting problems for high profile transactions and you’ll have significant interaction with senior company management teams, bankers, lawyers and other advisers.

About PwC

We’re one of the world’s leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.

About Risk Assurance

Risk isn’t going to disappear and the complex, ever changing environment makes it much harder to predict where new challenges will come from. But it represents an opportunity for businesses to transform and innovate, and discover hidden value. From the boardroom to back office, we work to protect and strengthen every aspect of business; from people to performance, systems to strategy. Through our invaluable insights and independent assurance we help discover and unlock real value.

There is a huge amount of business change caused by disruption, including technology, regulation, or a factor in the broader environment such as Brexit and that gives rise to risk and uncertainty. Helping our clients identify and address those risks to give them and their stakeholders confidence in their business is the purpose of our new Risk Assurance Line of Service. As a business, we have been providing services related to risk within our wider Assurance practice. On 1 July 2020, we established this new Line of Service to better use the scale and breadth of our practice including many of the firm’s experts in areas such as regulation, cyber security, listings, actuarial, accounting, controls and internal audit.

About the Team

You'll have the opportunity to work across all areas of CMAS, through a Senior Associate rotation scheme giving you experience in each area of specialism: Capital Markets transactions such as Mergers and Acquisitions, IPOs and Debt deals (including US transactions); Structuring and Deal Accounting and Digital Transformation projects. You’ll apply your previous auditing, advisory or technical accounting knowledge to deals transactions from a more commercial perspective gaining access to a variety of key stakeholders. As your career progresses you will be able to specialise in your preferred client proposition, so you are seen as a trusted advisor to your clients.

We are a supportive and cooperative team, committed to helping our people develop. We empower and trust our people to work independently, providing coaching and guidance as needed. We work closely with other teams within PwC and you will be encouraged to develop a network of relationships with clients and more broadly across the firm.

You’ll work as part of a team on project-based roles and may also have the opportunity to travel within the UK and abroad, as we provide services to many multinational companies.

Essential Skills

• ACA/ACCA qualified (or equivalent)
• An audit or advisory experience is preferred
• Ability to deliver on tight timelines and manage well under pressure
• Ability to convey complex information in an understandable format
• An interest in technology
• The drive and agility to work across a range of areas
• Good verbal and written communication, including report-writing skills
• Good project management and organisational skills
• Ability to build and maintain business relationships

Preferred Skills

You’ll have a commercial mind-set, along with great accounting and financial reporting skills. You’ll have good communication (both written and verbal) and interpersonal skills to build relationships with internal teams and the client teams you’ll be working alongside. You’ll have a flexible approach and be able to quickly adapt to different scenarios and complexities and have an active interest and curiosity about new digital tools and other technologies. You’ll use the knowledge and skills you’ve acquired (including your previous auditing, advisory or technical accounting knowledge) to solve problems for our clients in different situations. You’ll be attuned to the business issues our clients are facing and enjoy thinking about how we can help them. You’ll be interested in building your own network.
 

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.  Click here to find out more about everyday inclusion at PwC and how we support our people.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’, and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Risk
We’re a leading provider of trust in the digital world - in the eyes of our people, our clients and our stakeholders. Today's business environment is different. More complex. More connected. Companies not only face new and unknown risks, but also new and untapped opportunities. Our team is at the forefront of this change, join us to be a part of transforming how risk is perceived and capitalised on.

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The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Learn more here: www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply

The Deal
We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have ‘The Deal’.

Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition: https://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/about-us/the-new-deal.html

Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.

www.pwc.com/uk/diversity