Data & Analytics Manager; Deals Insights & Analytics - TS

Position: Data & Analytics Manager (Deals Insights & Analytics - TS)

Data & Analytics Manager (Deals Insights & Analytics - TS)

PwC UK Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

At PwC, our people in data and analytics focus on leveraging data to drive insights and make informed business decisions. They utilise advanced analytics techniques to help clients optimise their operations and achieve their strategic goals. Those in financial risk modelling at PwC will focus on developing and implementing models to assess and manage financial risks for clients. Your work will involve analysing data, conducting stress tests, and providing recommendations to mitigate risks.

Who

are we?

We are the world’s largest and most successful deal analytics and modelling team. Sitting at the heart of PwC’s +$10bn global deals business, we work with the world’s largest investors on their most complex transactions and restructurings.

Our purpose is to support the increasingly sophisticated client demand for advanced data‑driven insights to underpin their critical investment decisions. We deliver this with:

• A range of products and services that deliver transformational insights to our clients throughout the deal cycle
• Significant investments in cutting‑edge technologies and platforms
• A world class and truly diverse team with a range of data science, technology, commercial, financial and industry backgrounds

For the right candidate, this is an amazing opportunity to build a career in an environment that fosters a creative and entrepreneurial spirit, with the unrivalled security, personal development, client access and investment that PwC brings.

We offer an exciting, continuous development journey to help you become a market‑leading deals advisor.

PwC operates in 136 countries around the world with over 364,000 employees and revenues of US $57bn.

What you’ll be doing

Your main area of focus will be Deal Analytics which is used by our clients to support almost every critical business decision.

As part of this team you will help design and deliver truly game‑changing analysis and insights to meet a range of business needs. By working through the deal cycle, you will use value‑focused data analytics to help businesses prepare for a deal process, work through deal execution and support them after the deal to drive improved business performance for example:

• Bringing structure and clarity to complex problems and business scenarios within tight deadlines
• Succinctly summarising the value‑creation opportunity (e.g. through a driver tree) to senior management
• Leading development of analytics showcasing the drivers and equity story of a business either to management or to bidders to increase deal confidence including appropriate review of the junior teams work and communicate issues to stakeholders
• Using your technical know‑how and translating this for our non‑technical stakeholders to support robust, evidence‑based decisions
• Support the senior leadership team with business development activities to pitch and win the project

Most importantly, we need you to become a business partner and strategic advisor to our clients, translating and communicating your analysis to help answer the critical commercial questions.

In summary, you will be part of an amazing team in which we’re confident you’ll have fun, learn loads, build confidence and have some fantastic personal and professional experiences.

Example projects include

• Working with privately owned businesses to prepare for a first sale process. Educating the owner management team on the data demands of a process, especially to Private Equity buyers and how the use of value‑focused analytics can de‑risk the process, maximise bidder interest and increase sale value.
• Working with a listed Software business to acquire a carve‑out of an overseas software consultancy. Using data analytics to identify both future value opportunities and risks from the buyer’s perspective
• Using analytics to help a leading independent wealth adviser to underpin their business plan when coming to market and align to their value story for bidders
• Using leading analytics to bring together information from multiple global ERP systems to empower the locally based head office to drive more effective…