Performance & Restructuring, Senior Associate

PwC Canada; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC Canada seeks a Performance & Restructuring Senior Associate to deliver strategic advice in distress and recovery scenarios, including M&A, restructuring and court-supervised processes. You will model cash flow, develop turnaround plans, and support business development across PwC’s Deals Practice.

Qualified Canadian CPA or equivalent, strong financial modelling, and client-relations skills are required.

Qualifications

• Qualified Canadian CPA or equivalent reciprocal designation or commitment to CPA
• Excellent accounting, financial analysis and financial modelling skills
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and on multiple projects in a team
• Strong customer relationship and business development skills
• Understanding of business operations, risks and success factors
• Clear, concise and professional reports/presentations
• PwC Canada implements a hybrid work environment

Responsibilities

• Meet with clients to understand their views, needs and services for financial/operational situations
• Perform cash flow modelling and sensitivity analysis
• Strategic planning with business case and scenario modelling and financial analysis
• Identify reasons for underperformance and assess ongoing viability
• Assist in preparing presentations/reports for stakeholders
• Help management develop and implement turnaround plans

Skills

CPA / accounting designation

Financial analysis

Financial modelling

Client relationship

Project management

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

CPA designation or equivalent

Job description

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. In deal recovery management at PwC, you will focus on helping clients navigate financial distress and recover from challenging business situations. You will be responsible for providing strategic advice and solutions to optimise recovery outcomes.

At PwC, our people in Performance & Restructuring 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 maximize value in their business deals.

In this role you will help clients navigate financial distress and recover from challenging business situations. You will be responsible for providing strategic advice and solutions to optimize recovery outcomes.

The Opportunity:

As a Performance & Restructuring Senior Associate unlocks your potential and embrace the chance to drive meaningful outcomes that’ll elevate your career. Your role will include, but isn’t limited to:

• Meeting with clients and target companies to understand their views, needs, and services to be provided in connection with their financial or operational situation
• Performing cash flow modelling and sensitivity analysis
• Strategic planning with business case and scenario modelling, including analyzing financial results and assessing the enterprises’ financial structure
• Identifying reasons for a business’ underperformance and assessing the ongoing viability of the enterprise
• Assisting in the preparation of presentations and/or reports for key stakeholders
• Helping clients’ management teams develop and implement turnaround plans to maintain stakeholder support
• Taking a “hands‑on” role to manage stakeholders and lead change
• Supporting our business development activities, including assisting in pursuit of new client opportunities and developing leads
• Distressed Merger & Acquisition and financing engagements
• Court supervised restructuring and private appointments pursuant to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act.
• Acting for secured lenders to recover their loans
• Work across multiple service offerings within PwC’s Deals Practice as client demands change. This could include assisting Corporate Finance or Due Diligence teams with the purchase and sale of businesses

What You'll Bring:

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

• Qualified Canadian CPA or equivalent reciprocal/recognized designation, or commitment to completing the Canadian CPA and eligible to enrol in the CPA Professional Education Program
• Excellent accounting, financial analysis and financial modelling skills
• Ability to work under tight deadlines, embrace the uncertainty and fluid nature of the work, and work within a team on several simultaneous projects
• Strong customer relationship and business development skills
• Developing an understanding of a business’ operations, the risks it faces and its critical success factors
• Preparing clear, concise and professional communications such as reports or presentations
• Employing strong project management skills to complete assignments that meet stakeholder expectations
• PwC Canada is committed to cultivating an inclusive, hybrid work environment. Exact expectations for your team can be discussed with your interviewer

This position ensures continuity and upholds our standards of excellence following the departure of a valued team member.

The salary range for this position is $60,000 - $100,100. 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 programs 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. Learn more about our Application Process and Total Rewards Package at: https://jobs-ca.pwc.com/ca/en/life-at-pwc

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.

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