Deals Strategy Senior Associate

PwC•Montreal, QC

1d•CA$77,500 - CA$127,500•Hybrid

About The Position

Whatever their specific business priorities, unlocking new ways to create durable, long-term value is critical for our clients. A career with Value Creation will provide you with the opportunity to help clients enhance their revenue and maximize profitability, especially during mergers and acquisitions (M&A) processes. PwC Deals Strategy - Value Creation Practice We help our clients determine the right strategic priorities to grow profitably and maximize value and offer support and practical solutions to achieve these objectives. We combine strategic insight, rigorous analysis and in-depth industry expertise with access to PwC's global network of industry and functional specialists, local knowledge and resources. Growth Strategy: Assist clients assess where and how to grow by identifying organic and inorganic growth opportunities, unlocking growth levers and prioritizing growth programs (e.g., geographies, sectors / industries, customer segments, products / services) Strategic Planning: Assist clients in setting their business ambitions, generate and evaluate key strategic initiatives to achieve these and deliver against a plan Market Entry Strategy: Assist clients in assessing the attractiveness of a market by understanding market dynamics, including size (current and future), growth rate, key trends, market segments, profitability and cost structure, customers, distribution channels, key players and disruptors Commercial Due Diligence: Assist both financial and corporate buyers and sellers in evaluating investments by understanding the dynamics of the deal and the business, including deal hypotheses, industry dynamics, value drivers, synergies and risks In addition to working with clients, we regularly engage in new business development initiatives such as white paper discussion documents, client proposals, and practitioner training to increase our team’s overall capabilities. Our Clients We support clients across a broad range of industries and on a wide range of transaction sizes; our core Deal Strategy clients include: Major Canadian private and public corporations; Leading Canadian financial buyers (Private Equity and Pension Funds); and Inbound financial and strategic acquirers.

Requirements

Strong problem-solving skills (both quantitative and qualitative)
Experience with business strategy, strategy deployment programs or strategic transformation programs
Advisory experience from a management consultancy, or as an 'internal consultant' in a multinational corporate
Strong analytical skills; ability to conduct analysis with spreadsheets, financial and operational KPIs, to create sustainable value for clients
Financial acumen - comfort with P&L analysis, cash flow and balance sheet work
General understanding of the M&A lifecycle, including transaction strategy, due diligence, value creation planning and post-transaction execution.
Strong executive communication and presentation skills, with the ability to synthesize complex analyses into clear recommendations and prepare executive-ready PowerPoint deliverables.
Willing to travel occasionally throughout Canada, with the potential to travel outside of Canada, depending on client requirements. Candidates must be able to enter the USA to work on client assignments
The successful candidate requires fluency in English, in addition to French as they will be required to support or collaborate with English-speaking clients, colleagues and/or stakeholders during the course of their employment with PwC Canada

Nice To Haves

Degrees/Field of Study preferred

Responsibilities

Collaborate with clients in defining their strategic ambitions and developing actionable plans to achieve long-term growth objectives
Facilitate strategy development processes, including strategic assessments, option evaluation and prioritization of key initiatives
Work with executive teams in evaluating organic and inorganic growth opportunities, including acquisitions, partnerships and new market expansion
Identify growth or operational enhancement opportunities to rapidly increase performance supported by data analysis
Partnering with companies in delivering on execution of growth or improvement opportunities
Support the development of growth plans, channel strategies and product strategies for clients to enable them to grow their business and maximize their enterprise value
Assist in developing the future strategy, business model and cost reduction targets as well as implementation plans to rapidly deliver on cost reduction initiatives
Identify quick wins to improve earnings and build stakeholder confidence
Help client management develop and implement a turnaround or transformation program