Deals and Corporate Finance Senior Manager (CP&I) null

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Transportation and Logistics

Specialism

Capital Projects

Management Level

Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary

A career within Deals Corporate Finance services, will provide you the opportunity to deliver innovative deal solutions to our clients, providing advice and support, from initiation through to deal completion. In short, we’re a part of helping some of the world’s leading companies across industries originate, create, execute, and realise value from deals. Through data driven insights we help our clients move in the right direction ensuring maximum value for their company.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Manager, 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:

• Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.
• Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
• Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
• Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
• Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realizes they are required.
• Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.
• Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
• Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team in building and leveraging relationships with clients, support sales process in developing proposals, market propositions etc
• Lead thought leadership and research & development activity as appropriate.
• Contribute to overall development and growth of the Deals practice

Knowledge Preferred

Demonstrates some proven knowledge of the capital project lifecycle (planning through maintenance and operations), and a proven record of success in an individual contributor role for active capital projects. Specifically, having successfully supported or led as an individual contributor one or more of the following areas:

• Project governance, e.g. organizational and process aspects
• Risk management and analysis, e.g. risk register, quantitative (probabilistic) risk modeling, root cause analysis, issue management, prudency reviews
• Construction project management and controls, e.g. schedule control, cost control (budget, accruals, forecasts), earned value, change management
• Complex schedule analytics, e.g. critical path method (CPM), float, schedule compression/time-cost trade-off, change impacts
• Contract development and management, e.g. common commercial terms, procurement processes, administration, scope control, construction claims
• Performance metrics and project reporting
• Project technology, e.g. project and portfolio management, applications to quantify cause and effect of delays
• Demonstrates some direct knowledge of capital intensive industries (e.g., nuclear facilities, power plants, oil refineries, transmission and distribution, and other infrastructure), including industry-leading practices for improving capital project performance and identifying and implementing process improvements that can help clients achieve business requirements.

Skills Preferred

Demonstrates some proven level of skills and abilities related to establishing, monitoring, and controlling large scale capital projects, for individual projects as well as aggregated portfolios, including the following:

• Solving complex problems, independently and proactively
• Managing multiple projects concurrently and work closely with multiple stakeholders, while maintaining deadlines
• Identifying, organizing and analyzing extensive technical and financial data sets, with an acute attention to details
• Communicating technical concepts in a clear manner, both verbally and in writing, to internal and external audiences, and prepare concise, accurate documents
• Utilizing multiple technologies, e.g. project control tools such as Primavera P6 or equivalent, financial/ERP systems, statistics and risk packages, Microsoft Office suite (including Access database)
• Managing project workflow and budgets, including project economics
• Demonstrates some proven abilities to collaborate and work with a diverse team; including seeking diverse views to encourage improvement and innovation; communicating potential issues proactively; creating an atmosphere of trust and building consensus, and providing meaningful written and verbal feedback to colleagues.
• Demonstrates some proven abilities in addressing client needs, including proactively identifying needs and effectively communicating the solutions that can be provided. Also demonstrates the ability to build, maintain, and utilize networks of client relationships, especially a network of commercial clients involved in and/or sponsoring capital projects