Senior Associate to Consulting

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.

Your responsibilities will include, but may be not limited to:

• Conducting market research to understand key business trends and develop strategic view

• Conducting analysis of businesses to identify various opportunities for improvements

• Provide recommendations for the clients’ issues (including topics on strategy, target operating model, business processes, operations, market analysis and feasibility studies);

• Development of reports/ presentations on different topics

• Assisting in the design, development, test and implementation of new business processes

• Managing a team of junior colleagues on daily basis

• Communicate with clients on project execution

• Work closely with senior colleagues

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Completed University degree in business field (Finance, Accounting, Economics, Management);

• At least 3 years of relevant experience within consulting, banking and/or other industry sectors;

• Minimum one (1) year of experience as an in-charge / senior / team lead;

• Russian – fluent, English – advanced/fluent (both oral and written)

Soft skills:

• Ability to operate in multitask environment;

• Strong presentation skills (including PowerPoint slides structuring and preparation);

• Availability for overtime work and tough deadlines;

• Business and analytical writing skills (both in Russia and in English).

• Candidate needs to be adaptable, able to manage projects independently and be ready to assume a high level of responsibility as a member of a team;

• Ability to comfortably interact with clients and colleagues in a professional and mature manner;

• Ability to manage junior colleagues;

• Strong work ethics, integrity and judgment;

• Strong intellectual curiosity;

• Highly organized, detail oriented, proactive with strong interpersonal skills