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About the job

PWC

In Deals we solve the important problems that stand in the way of value being created, sustained, realised or protected for our clients – working together to aid responsible recovery and growth.

Working on iconic deals with national and global clients, we put together major mergers and acquisitions and resolve business crises – from international take-over bids to financial crime investigations and cases of insolvency.

We draw upon our deals experience across many industries to support and partner with our clients, to positively impact society and the communities in which we operate.

Restructuring & Forensics

In Restructuring & Forensics we focus on supporting our clients through the Protect and Recover stages of the business cycle. We combine restructuring services such as financial restructuring, liability restructuring and corporate simplification with Digital and Forensic Investigations and Financial Crime teams. We support clients in stress or distress situations, seeking to support them to respond, restructure and transform, as well as prepare for, respond to and emerge stronger from a wide range of business risks and issues.. We could be involved in any one, or all of these types of engagements.

About the role:

You’ll be supporting the practice to deliver agile and pragmatic solutions to clients. It’s likely you’ll work across market sectors to help our clients in multiple scenarios, including debt raise, restructuring and financial improvement. Our clients are wide ranging and include corporates, banks, equity holders, credit funds, pension trustees and government organisations.

Your responsibilities:

• Working with integrated financial accounts and models including P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statements
• Checking and challenging financial models and assumptions
• Analysing historical trends and scrutinising forecasts
• Performing cost benchmarks and analysing working capital
• Monitoring short term cash flows
• Identifying and quantifying opportunities for financial improvement and efficiencies
• Writing up your findings in client reports

We empower people to determine their own career path. Whatever your ambition, we will support your learning and development, within one of the world’s leading professional organisations.

Essential skills:

• Sound business and financial analysis skills, including developing and reviewing financial forecasts and KPI’s
• Strong commercial and business acumen
• Good excel modelling skills or a desire to learn in this area
• Strong interpersonal skills and comfortable communicating with all levels (internal and external stakeholders)
• Effective communicator; both written and verbal
• Curious and willing to learn new skills
• Ability to multitask
• Willing to challenge and question

Desirable skills:

• Ideally a part qualification or fully qualified with ACA, ACCA, CIMA, AAT
• Familiarity with visualisation software such as Tableau, Power BI is desirable, but not essential as knowledge can be developed in role
• Familiarity with Google suite a bonus, but not essential

Where you will be working:

Your office location will be Cardiff, However, we work with a great diversity of clients, in locations both in and outside the UK. There may be occasions where travel is required, to ensure you are at the heart of the project with the wider Restructuring & Forensics team.

With an increasingly agile workforce, we’re open to flexible working requirements and have many successful arrangements currently in place that flex from the standard 5 day week. We’re very open to discussing this further at the interview stage.

Deals

Our Deals business is an exciting, fast-paced and an ever-growing business that focuses on deals and crisis situations for our clients. Collectively, we deal with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and we provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business.

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