Deals Value Creation Analytics Director

PwC South Africa; Toronto; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Variable incentive pay

Total rewards package

Job summary

PwC Canada is seeking a Director in our Deals Advisory group to lead high-profile analytics engagements, guiding teams from data discovery to executive-ready insights. You will translate complex data into strategic recommendations for clients, focusing on mergers, acquisitions, and value creation opportunities.

The role emphasizes leadership, client management, and the ability to drive growth through analytics-driven advisory, with extensive collaboration across PwC networks and a mandate to

Qualifications

• Significant experience in analytics, corporate finance, value creation, management consulting, corporate development, private equity, M&A, or a related field.
• Experience leading client engagements, managing teams, and delivering high-quality work under tight timelines.
• Strong executive communication skills and the ability to translate data into insights for executives, investors, and management teams.

Responsibilities

• Leading high-profile analytics engagements across sell-side, buy-side, value creation, and performance improvement contexts.
• Helping management teams understand business performance, growth drivers, and value creation opportunities.
• Coaching and developing team members across technical, commercial, financial, and client-facing skills.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Communication

Client Management

Coaching and Feedback

Change Management

Executive Presentation

Job description

Job Summary

Line of Service Advisory Industry/Sector Not Applicable Specialism Delivering Deal Value Management Level Director Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in deals focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. They help clients navigate complex transactions and maximise value in their business deals. Those in deal integration and valuation realisation at PwC will focus on assisting clients in successfully integrating acquisitions and maximising the value of their investments. You will be responsible for conducting valuations, financial analysis, and developing strategies for post-merger integration.

Responsibilities

• Leading high-profile analytics engagements across sell-side, buy-side, value creation, and performance improvement contexts, translating complex data into clear commercial insights.
• Helping management teams and investors understand business performance, growth drivers, customer behaviour, pricing, revenue quality, margins, operational efficiency, and value creation opportunities.
• Bringing together financial, commercial, operational, and technical perspectives to support fact-based decision making.
• Structuring ambiguous problems, defining analytical workplans, and guiding teams from data discovery through to executive-ready insights and deliverables.
• Leading business development activities, including opportunity identification, relationship building, proposal development, client pitches, and broader practice growth.
• Building relationships across PwC to support integrated client solutions, including across Deals, Consulting, Tax, Assurance, and data and AI teams.
• Supporting the development of the Value Creation Analytics practice, including methodologies, tools, reusable assets, delivery standards, and market-facing propositions.
• Coaching and developing team members across technical, commercial, financial, and client-facing skills.

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

What You’ll Bring

• Significant experience in analytics, corporate finance, value creation, management consulting, corporate development, private equity, M&A, or a related field.
• Experience leading client engagements, managing teams, and delivering high-quality work under tight timelines.
• Experience supporting transactions, performance improvement, value creation, corporate strategy, finance transformation, or related advisory work.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to understand business drivers and translate data into practical insights for executives, investors, and management teams.
• Strong understanding of financial analysis and business case development, including forecasting, scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, KPI driver trees, and investment case support.
• Experience contributing to business development, including opportunity identification, proposal development, client pitches, and relationship building.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships with clients and internal stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Experience working with complex data environments and guiding teams through data structuring, transformation, analysis, visualization, and insight development.
• Working knowledge of modern analytics, cloud data, and AI-enabled delivery tools, with the ability to identify practical use cases for AI, automation, and analytics in client delivery and business operations.
• Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to explain complex financial, operational, technical, or analytical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong people leadership skills, with a demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and develop high-performing teams.
• A collaborative working style and a demonstrated commitment to valuing differences, developing diverse teams, and ensuring diverse perspectives are heard.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to approximately 20% within Canada and internationally.

This newly created role reflects our commitment to growth and delivering distinctive value for our clients and stakeholders.

The salary range for this position is $175,000 - $225,000. The posted salary range represents the expected hiring range for PwC locations in major city centres. Given our national recruiting approach, ranges may vary for positions in other locations. At PwC Canada, base salary is determined by your skills, experience, qualifications and work location.

In addition to base salary, eligible employees may have opportunities to participate in variable incentive pay programmes which are designed to reward individual and firm-wide achievements. We are committed to offering competitive compensation and adhere to all relevant pay transparency legislation. During the hiring process, our Talent Acquisition team will provide details about our comprehensive total rewards package.

Why you’ll love PwC

We’re inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you’ll be a part of diverse teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life.

PwC Canada acknowledges that we work and live across Turtle Island, on the land that is now known as Canada, which are the lands of the ancestral, treaty and unceded territories of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples. We recognize the systemic racism, colonialism and oppression that Indigenous Peoples have experienced and still go through, and we commit to allyship and solidarity.

We’re committed to providing accommodation throughout the application, interview, and employment process. If you require accommodation to be at your best, please let us know during the application process.

Education and Skills

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified) Degrees/Field of Study required: Degrees/Field of Study preferred: Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills Optional Skills Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Business Administration, Business Process Improvement, Carve-Outs, Change Management, Client Management, Coaching and Feedback, Communication, Contract Negotiation, Cost Efficiency, Cost Reduction, Creativity, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Enhanced Due Diligence, HR Due Diligence, Inclusion, Influence, Initial Public Offering (IPO), Innovation, Intellectual Curiosity {+ 27 more}

Travel Requirements

Travel Requirements Not Specified

Visa Sponsorship

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship? No

Government Clearance

Government Clearance Required? No

Closing

Job Posting End Date We’re committed to providing accommodation throughout the application, interview, and employment process. If you require accommodation to be at your best, please let us know during the application process.

Additional Information

Are you ready to make a difference? Want to unlock new value by applying your unique perspective and talents? You can grow exponentially at PwC. Here, you can uncover hidden talents, build lifelong relationships rooted in trust and empathy and turn challenges into opportunities for innovation. We’ll help you grow your skills through challenging, meaningful work so you can go further.