Enterprise Transformation Consultants

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

A career within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.

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 Associate, 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:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Role Summary:

Our new South Africa Delivery Centre is the latest part of PwC, a global brand
delivering services for the biggest clients in the world. PwC leads the way in human
led, technology-enabled professional services working with clients to transform their
organisations and make them fit for the future.
We are looking for candidates who bring in-depth market experience, fused with
outstanding technical capabilities, who want to be a part of a community of solvers to
tackle the biggest challenges in society.
If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are
complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you.
By choosing to join the SADC, you are choosing to work with teams all over the
world, harnessing the power of world leading tech, and making a difference to real
people’s lives.
We are building one of the most innovative and exciting capabilities in the consulting
industry. Taking the very best of our market leading approaches relating to business
analysis, operating model design, change management, programme and project
management, and transformation implementation; we have established a
Government and Health Industries Enterprise Transformation (G&HI ET) practice
within the UK to deliver human led, tech-powered success for our clients.
We believe that taking an enterprise level approach to transformation has the power
to unlock the biggest opportunities our clients have, to improve efficiency and

effectiveness, and ensure they deliver the outcomes required for the people and
places they serve.
We are passionate about the work we do and the difference we make. We thrive
when we are tackling some of the most complex problems our clients have to
contend with, and in turn helping to address some of the most pressing issues facing
the world today.
We are a highly motivated, capable, collaborative, diverse, and caring team. We
have grown significantly in recent years and have welcomed a wealth of talented
individuals to the organisation. However, we have bold ambitions and see an even
greater opportunity in the market. We are looking for more brilliant people to join our
brilliant team.

Qualifications /
Certifications required:

● NQF Level 7 and above (ZA)

● At least 2 years experience within consulting, or an industry business
analysis/ enterprise transformation/ operating model/ strategy/ fund, project,
or programme management role.
● Ideally an industry recognised project or programme management
qualification (e.g., Prince2 / MSP etc.).

Experience required:

Experience of supporting delivery of transformation programmes, ideally in the
Public Sector.

● Experience in project and programme management—ideally in a change or
transformation environment—including such capabilities in planning,
scheduling, and RAIDD management.
● Experience in business analysis, transformation communications &
stakeholder management, and engagement change monitoring.
● Experience in interpreting clients’ strategic, operational, and external drivers
for change into coherent and logic recommendations.
● Experience in creating high quality visual outputs to communicate status,
progress, business analysis outputs, and recommendations to clients.

Responsibilities of role:

As a Senior Associate within our G&HI ET team, you will work as part of a team of
problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience to support

delivery of projects that help our clients solve complex business issues and deliver
enterprise wide transformation. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

● Help us to deliver our firmwide purpose of building trust in society and solving
important problems.
● Support the design and delivery of iconic, technology-enabled transformation
programmes for some of the largest public sector clients in the UK.
● Help to grow our multi-specialism Enterprise Transformation team,
developing the tools and techniques that will help our clients transform their
ways of working and secure better outcomes for the people and places they
serve.
● Support a safe delivery of our engagements through project or programme
management techniques incl. risk and issue management, progress
monitoring, implementation planning, finance monitoring, and communication
& stakeholder management.
● Create visual and graphic outputs to translate our designs and
recommendations into high quality client deliverables.
● Develop your own business, technical, and global acumen—learn new skills,
keep up to date with emerging local, national and global trends, and help us
bring the very best of our firm’s diverse and inclusive culture to our clients.
● Be innovative, take calculated risks, push yourself, and resist the temptation
to take the easy option.
● Be an ambassador for the PwC brand and help us further develop our
reputation in the UK and overseas.

Desirable skill sets include:
 

● Understanding of transformation opportunities in the Government and
Healthcare Industries sector and what the general factors to be considered
while conducting complex transformation programmes are.
● Awareness of how such programmes need to leverage technology and an
understanding of different approaches to enterprise transformation.
● Experience in conducting business analysis and developing requirements
across process, people, organisation, operations, and technology and
information
● Ability to articulate the business benefits of transformations and articulate the
case for change.
● Practical and output focussed approach and a desire to make a difference.
● Excellent written and verbal communication skills to create client
recommendations and outputs with concise, clear, and coherent messaging.

Role related attributes:

The following attributes are required:

● Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
● Strong written and verbal communication skills.
● Proactive approach and a self starter attitude.
● Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressured
environment.
● Strong customer service orientation and relationship building skills.
● Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language.
● Keen attention to detail.

* Industry experience required:

The following experience is desirable:

● Experience of supporting delivery of transformation programmes, ideally in
the Public Sector
● Experience of working collaboratively with external teams and subject matter
experts to benefit project work and recommendations.
● Experience of working within large, complex programmes.
● Experience in working with agile and scaled agile delivery approaches.

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

November 30, 2024