Businesses are faced with complex and challenging situations such as entering major transactions, going through organisational change, or making strategic decisions about their future. With expert support, organisations are better equipped to achieve their objectives.
The PwC Advisory team provides that support.
As part of this team you will assist in providing clients with professional advice, guidance and the creative solutions they need to negotiate complicated and intricate business issues. It’s all about generating maximum value and minimum risk.
The Advisory team provides advice to a wide range of clients on private company growth, tackling financial under-performance, corporate finance, performance improvement, investigating corporate fraud, and actuarial issues.
The Advisory team works with clients across all industries and sectors.
Management buy outs, divestments and mergers & acquisitions.
PCS clients range from family owned businesses, wealthy individuals, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and distributors to large multinationals with a presence in New Zealand, or those looking to establish a presence here.
There is a strong client service approach and team members will spend time working at client’s offices. Some of our clients are foreign-owned so client contacts may be overseas. There is also the possibility for international secondments within PCS, as the experience people gain working in this area is in high demand.
People who are good communicators, flexible, who can think differently and who can work in small teams are suited to the broad range of work in Private Client Services. It’s a social working environment and people come from a variety of backgrounds.
For further information: Visit the PCS website at www.clevercompanies.co.nz
Business Recovery Services (BRS)
BRS assists clients to tackle financial under-performance and improve the bottom line of a business. If you join this team your work is likely to be varied – we are involved in areas such as helping a business improve its cash flow; advising lenders; helping owners exit a business; insolvency, liquidations and receiverships; statutory management; business appraisals; the selling of businesses; reorganising a corporation’s structure; appearing as expert witnesses in disputes; and investigations and forensic services.
The members of the BRS team generally come from finance, law and/or accounting backgrounds. Good communications skills are required as there is a lot of face-to-face client interaction.
Many of our clients are in the financial services industry, or major corporations and law firms. The majority of work is carried out at the PwC offices but there are times when a group is required to work at a client. The work is very challenging so there is strong focus on teamwork and support. Due to the varied nature of the work and the wide range of roles that team members are asked to perform, a practical, "can-do" attitude is essential.
Relevant study: Commerce (Finance and/or Accounting) and/or Law
For further information visit: www.pwc.com/nz/brs
Corporate Finance (CF)
The Corporate Finance team offers clients strategic advice and assistance across a full range of corporate finance services, including:
Business and share valuations
Advice on mergers and acquisitions (for purchasers, vendors and private equity companies)
Dispute analysis
Litigation support
Negotiating and structuring deals
Public sector strategy
Intellectual property valuation
Strategic planning
Financial analysis and modelling
Advice on public sector economic policy.
Relevant study: Commerce (Finance and/or Economics)
For further information visit: www.pwc.com/nz/corporatefinance
Actuarial and Financial Risk Management
Our Actuarial and Financial Risk Management team is one of the largest actuarial and financial risk consulting groups in the Asia-Pacific region. We specialise in helping clients with advice on health and life insurance, banking and superannuation and other areas where we can apply actuarial skills and techniques.
We apply mathematical, statistical, economic and financial models to a variety of clients’ problems in order to help solve them. To work in this group you will need a strong interest and grasp of maths and forecasting skills.
Relevant study: Mathematics or Statistics
For further information visit : www.pwc.com/nz/actuarial Performance Improvement (PI)
The PI team provides advice and solutions to allow organisations to gain and protect their competitive advantage, be that in the area of corporate strategy, people, structure, business process or technology.
Examples of the work PwC PI teams are involved in:
People: providing innovative solutions assisting organisations to develop and align their people and culture with their business strategy.
Finance Function Effectiveness: identifying gaps in performance and assisting clients in improving the effectiveness and efficiency of their finance operations.
Sustainable Cost Management: managing and aligning investments and costs with an organisation’s business strategies on a continuous basis.
Strategy: helping clients implement their business strategy by ensuring that structures, people, processes and technology are properly aligned.
Relevant study: Finance, Economics, Commerce, Management, Human Resources, Psychology
For further information visit www.pwc.com/nz/performanceimprovement
