Line of Service: Advisory
Industry/Sector: Not Applicable
Specialism: Customer
Management Level: Senior Associate
Job Description & Summary:
A career within General Consulting services 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. 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, optimizing deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.
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:
Our new South Africa Delivery Centre is the latest part of PwC, a global brand delivering services for the biggest clients in the world. We are looking for candidates who bring in-depth market experience, fused with outstanding technical capabilities, who want to be a part of a community of solvers to tackle the biggest challenges in society. If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you.
Qualifications / Certifications required:
- NQF Level 7 and above (ZA)
- At least 2 years experience within consulting, or an industry business analysis/enterprise transformation/operating model/strategy/fund, project, or programme management role.
- Ideally an industry recognized project or programme management qualification (e.g., Prince2 / MSP etc.).
Experience required:
- Experience of supporting delivery of transformation programmes, ideally in the Public Sector.
- Experience in project and programme management—ideally in a change or transformation environment—including such capabilities in planning, scheduling, and RAIDD management.
- Experience in business analysis, transformation communications & stakeholder management, and engagement change monitoring.
- Experience in interpreting clients’ strategic, operational, and external drivers for change into coherent and logic recommendations.
- Experience in creating high-quality visual outputs to communicate status, progress, business analysis outputs, and recommendations to clients.
Responsibilities of role:
- Help us to deliver our firmwide purpose of building trust in society and solving important problems.
- Support the design and delivery of iconic, technology-enabled transformation programmes for some of the largest public sector clients in the UK.
- Help to grow our multi-specialism Enterprise Transformation team, developing the tools and techniques that will help our clients transform their ways of working and secure better outcomes for the people and places they serve.
- Support a safe delivery of our engagements through project or programme management techniques including risk and issue management, progress monitoring, implementation planning, finance monitoring, and communication & stakeholder management.
- Create visual and graphic outputs to translate our designs and recommendations into high-quality client deliverables.
- Develop your own business, technical, and global acumen—learn new skills, keep up to date with emerging local, national and global trends, and help us bring the very best of our firm’s diverse and inclusive culture to our clients.
- Be innovative, take calculated risks, push yourself, and resist the temptation to take the easy option.
- Be an ambassador for the PwC brand and help us further develop our reputation in the UK and overseas.
Desirable skill sets include:
- Understanding of transformation opportunities in the Government and Healthcare Industries sector.
- Awareness of how such programmes need to leverage technology and an understanding of different approaches to enterprise transformation.
- Experience in conducting business analysis and developing requirements across process, people, organization, operations, and technology.
- Ability to articulate the business benefits of transformations and articulate the case for change.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to create client recommendations and outputs with concise, clear, and coherent messaging.
Role related attributes:
- Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Proactive approach and a self-starter attitude.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressured environment.
- Strong customer service orientation and relationship building skills.
- Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language.
- Keen attention to detail.
Industry experience required:
- Experience of supporting delivery of transformation programmes, ideally in the Public Sector.
- Experience of working collaboratively with external teams and subject matter experts.
- Experience of working within large, complex programmes.
- Experience in working with agile and scaled agile delivery approaches.
Travel Requirements: Up to 20%
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship? No
Government Clearance Required? Yes
Job Posting End Date: October 31, 2024
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