PwC Hiring for Deals – Private Equity Value Creation (Healthcare) – Director at Chicago, Illinois Full Time

Specialty/Competency: Deal Strategy

Industry/Sector: Not Applicable

Time Type: Full time

Travel Requirements: Up to 40%

A career in our Deals Strategy practice, within Deals Transaction Services, will provide you the opportunity to help organisations realise the potential of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and capital markets. In short, we help some of the world’s leading companies 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.

Our team helps companies navigate the accounting and financial reporting challenges of business combinations. As part of the team, you’ll develop roadmaps of the driving economic objectives, determine the appropriate professionals needed, and consider financial reporting implications for deals.

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 Director, 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:

• Support team to disrupt, improve and evolve ways of working when necessary.

• Arrange and sponsor appropriate assignments and experiences to help people realise their potential and support their long-term aspirations.

• Identify gaps in the market and spot opportunities to create value propositions.

• Look for opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments.

• Create an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.

• I promote and encourage others to value difference when working in diverse teams.

• Drive and take ownership for developing connections that help deliver what is best for our people and stakeholders.

• Influence and facilitate the creation of long-term relationships which add value to the firm.

• Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.

Job Requirements and Preferences :

Basic Qualifications :

Minimum Degree Required :

Bachelor Degree

Required Fields of Study :

Accounting, Finance, Engineering, Economics, Data Processing/Analytics/Science, Computer and Information Science

Additional Educational Requirements :

Other relevant fields of study may be considered

Minimum Years of Experience :

8 year(s)

Preferred Qualifications :

Degree Preferred :

Master of Business Administration

Preferred Knowledge/Skills :

Demonstrates thought leader-level abilities as a team leader, emphasizing in roles involving, commercial due diligence or corporate strategy, preferably for a global network of professional services firms, private equity or corporate organizations, emphasizing the following:

• Understanding various facets of mergers, integrations, spin-offs and/or divestiture transactions, including options analyses and recommendations; and,

• Leading teams to assist clients with strategic planning and business reviews; growth, market entry and international expansion; and market opportunity sizing.

Demonstrates thought leader-level abilities with, and/or proven record of success directing and developing strategic client relationships while providing the highest quality client work across multiple client projects, preferably for a global network of professional services firms, private equity or corporate organizations, emphasizing the following:

• Building proven and collaborative relationships with team members, fostering a productive teamwork environment, leading teams to generate a vision, leveraging diverse views, and helping to develop and grow team members throughout the course of every engagement;

• Taking a lead role in new business development and pursuit activities, including client lead maturation, proposal development, and closing new business opportunities;

• Managing and delivering significant business results that reflect strategic and creative thinking and individual initiative;

• Developing a business vision and leading complex projects while functioning as a trusted advisor at the highest levels of client organizations;

• Identifying and addressing client needs by building, maintaining, and utilizing networks of client relationships;

• Directing and conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses of complex data, including Market and competitor analysis (market sizing, drivers and dynamics), customer analysis and internal analysis (strategic analysis, business model reviews, financials);

• Framing and understanding key client issues, client processes and mandate, defining realistic expectations for the client, team, and PwC;

• Being hypothesis driven by employing scientific method for business problem solving, with high level of prioritization on core issues for the client and problem at hand;

• Scoping and developing high-yield work structures by defining the scope, breaking down work in meaningful structures, prioritizing sequencing;

• Driving thought leadership; being in-tune with industry- and function-specific issues; developing action-oriented points of view; and developing new offerings which drive demand for the Deals Strategy;

• Writing, communicating, facilitating, and presenting cogently; to and/or for all levels of audiences, clients and internal staff and management;

• Leading project workstreams and developing proposals, deliverables and reports using the Microsoft suite of applications such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint;

• Multi-tasking and balancing time effectively, keeping a rapid pace without sacrificing quality; and,

• Understanding advanced analytics and big data.

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