Deals Strategy Senior Associate

PwC; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC Canada is seeking a Deal Integration and Value Realization Senior Associate to help clients define strategic ambitions and develop actionable growth plans. You will collaborate with client teams to evaluate organic and inorganic opportunities and drive value creation initiatives across cross-functional sets.

In this role, you will conduct rigorous data analysis, support strategic planning and market entry initiatives, and contribute to cost reduction and post-transaction execution.

Qualifications

• Experience with business strategy and transformation programs.
• Advisory experience from a management consultancy, or as an internal consultant in a multinational corporate.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to work with KPIs and financial metrics.
• Financial acumen—P&L, cash flow, balance sheet familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with clients to define strategic ambitions and develop actionable growth plans.
• Facilitate strategy development, assessments, option evaluation and prioritization of initiatives.
• Work with executive teams to evaluate organic and inorganic growth opportunities including acquisitions.
• Identify growth or operational improvement opportunities supported by data analysis.
• Partner with client teams to deliver growth plans, channel and product strategies.
• Assist in developing future strategy, business model and cost-reduction targets and execution plans.
• Identify quick wins to improve earnings and build stakeholder confidence.
• Help clients manage turnaround or transformation programs.
• Engage in business development activities such as white papers and client proposals.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Communication

M&A knowledge

Financial modeling

Job description

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Delivering Deal Value

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

Whatever their specific business priorities, unlocking new ways to create durable, long-term value is critical for our clients. A career with Value Creation will provide you with the opportunity to help clients enhance their revenue and maximize profitability, especially during mergers and acquisitions (M&A) processes.

PwC Deals Strategy - Value Creation Practice

We help our clients determine the right strategic priorities to grow profitably and maximize value and offer support and practical solutions to achieve these objectives. We combine strategic insight, rigorous analysis and in-depth industry expertise with access to PwC's global network of industry and functional specialists, local knowledge and resources.

Growth Strategy

Assist clients assess where and how to grow by identifying organic and inorganic growth opportunities, unlocking growth levers and prioritizing growth programs (e.g., geographies, sectors / industries, customer segments, products / services)

Strategic Planning

Assist clients in setting their business ambitions, generate and evaluate key strategic initiatives to achieve these and deliver against a plan

Market Entry Strategy

Assist clients in assessing the attractiveness of a market by understanding market dynamics, including size (current and future), growth rate, key trends, market segments, profitability and cost structure, customers, distribution channels, key players and disruptors

Commercial Due Diligence

Assist both financial and corporate buyers and sellers in evaluating investments by understanding the dynamics of the deal and the business, including deal hypotheses, industry dynamics, value drivers, synergies and risks

In addition to working with clients, we regularly engage in new business development initiatives such as white paper discussion documents, client proposals, and practitioner training to increase our team's overall capabilities.

Our Clients

We support clients across a broad range of industries and on a wide range of transaction sizes; our core Deal Strategy clients include:

• Major Canadian private and public corporations;
• Leading Canadian financial buyers (Private Equity and Pension Funds); and
• Inbound financial and strategic acquirers.

The Opportunity

As a Deal Integration and Value Realization Senior Associate , unlock your potential and embrace the chance to drive meaningful outcomes that'll elevate your career. Your role will include, but isn't limited to:

• Collaborate with clients in defining their strategic ambitions and developing actionable plans to achieve long-term growth objectives
• Facilitate strategy development processes, including strategic assessments, option evaluation and prioritization of key initiatives
• Work with executive teams in evaluating organic and inorganic growth opportunities, including acquisitions, partnerships and new market expansion
• Identify growth or operational enhancement opportunities to rapidly increase performance supported by data analysis
• Partnering with companies in delivering on execution of growth or improvement opportunities
• Support the development of growth plans, channel strategies and product strategies for clients to enable them to grow their business and maximize their enterprise value
• Assist in developing the future strategy, business model and cost reduction targets as well as implementation plans to rapidly deliver on cost reduction initiatives
• Identify quick wins to improve earnings and build stakeholder confidence
• Help client management develop and implement a turnaround or transformation program

What You'll Bring

Your skills, knowledge, and experiences are what set you apart. Here’s what we look for:

• Strong problem-solving skills (both quantitative and qualitative)
• Experience with business strategy, strategy deployment programs or strategic transformation programs
• Advisory experience from a management consultancy, or as an 'internal consultant' in a multinational corporate
• Strong analytical skills; ability to conduct analysis with spreadsheets, financial and operational KPIs, to create sustainable value for clients
• Financial acumen - comfort with P&L analysis, cash flow and balance sheet work
• General understanding of the M&A lifecycle, including transaction strategy, due diligence, value creation planning and post-transaction execution.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills, with the ability to synthesize complex analyses into clear recommendations and prepare executive-ready PowerPoint deliverables.
• Willing to travel occasionally throughout Canada, with the potential to travel outside of Canada, depending on client requirements. Candidates must be able to enter the USA to work on client assignments

PwC Canada is committed to cultivating an inclusive, hybrid work environment. Exact expectations for your team can